Issue 328 - March, 1st 2018

News

Drupal 8.5.0-Rc1 Is Available for Testing

Drupal Accepted Into Google Summer of Code 2018

Drupal Association Technology Partner JetBrains Offers Free PhpStorm Licenses for Contributors

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Deprecation Fails When Testing Drupal 8

Drupal Commerce Needs API-First and Modern JavaScript in Drupal

Matt Glaman of Commerce Guys explains why a decoupled Drupal Commerce using Drupal's API and JavaScript frameworks will be important.

Drupal Performance and Scalability with Excessive I/O Load or Memory Exhausion

Improving Drupal’s Minor Version Upgrade Experience

It's Security Update Wednesday - You're Just Chillin'

Optimizing Drupal Views: Query Time and Rendering Time

Posting My Phone's Battery Status to My Site

Dries Buytaert continues to talk about owning his content management.

Remembering J-P Stacey

"In 2017 we saw the passing of J-P, community friend, mentor, leader, and contributor. Within the community J-P was known for his passions: Drupal, programming culture, gardening, cycling and the environment. We invited people to share their memories of J-P and his impact; we share them with you now in memoriam. This is a moving tribute and a celebration of his life."

The Myth of the Forklift Migration and the Lipstick Redesign

Lullabot's Greg Dunlap talks about the issues around these two approaches to migrating a CMS.

What Do You Use to Build and Develop Drupal Sites?

Creator of DrupalVM Jeff Geerling has a local development survey out. Go check it out and fill it out. The results should be interesting.

Tutorials

Capturing Webhooks in Drupal 8

Check Out the New Page Builder in Drupal 8.5!

Sprint Kit – Get Newcomers Set-Up and Ready to Contribute Fast

We want to help you have a successful contribution sprint. Getting newcomers up to speed, and everyone ready to contribute can be tricky, but it is vital to success.

Drupal Commerce 2: How to Add a Payment Gateway

How to Use the New Media Module Features in Drupal

Regenerating Plugin Dependency Injection with Module Builder

Projects

What's the Plan for Commerce Kickstart on Drupal 8?

The Commerce Guys announce a plan for the Commerce Kickstart project on Drupal 8.

Releases

backup_migrate 8.x-4.0-Rc1

Drupal 7.57

Drupal 8.4.5

Drupal 8.5.0-Rc1

Drupal Console 1.6.1

Eva 8.x-1.3

Guardr 7.x-2.41

Jsonapi 8.x-1.10

jsonapi_extras 8.x-1.0-Rc4

Lightning 8.x-3.002

Migrate 7.x-2.9

module_builder 8.x-3.0-Beta6

Panopoly 7.x-1.51

search_api 8.x-1.7

Shield 8.x-1.2

Thunder 8.x-2.14

Podcasts

Behind the Screens with Jerad Bitner

DrupalEasy Podcast 206 - Heather Rodriguez - Previewing the "Being Human" Track at DrupalCon Nashville

Events

Drupalcamp London 2018

March 2nd - 4th in London.

2018 Charlotte Drupal Drive-In

March 3rd in Charlotte, North Carolina.

MidCamp 2018

March 8th - 11th in Chicago, Illinois.

NERDSummit 2018

March 17th - 18th in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Drupaldelphia

April 27th in Philedelphia, Pennsylvania.