Issue 249 - July, 21st 2016

News

"Drupal 8 uses the third-party PHP library Guzzle for making server-side HTTP requests. An attacker can provide a proxy server that Guzzle will use. The details of this are explained at https://httpoxy.org/."

"Drupal 8.1.7, a maintenance release which contains fixes for security vulnerabilities, is now available for download."

Better issue credit tools for maintainers, Composer repositories are now in beta, documentation migration, and more in this edition of what's new on Drupal.org.

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A good overview of the Media ecosystem for D8 by Samuel Mortenson.

Tutorials

A short primer on Events in Drupal 8.

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Projects

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"A tiny yet useful tool for administrators to define the viewport of pages on their site."

Releases

Podcasts