Issue 341 - May, 31st 2018

News

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Articles

Drupal core contributor Nat Catchpole discusses the path to Drupal 9. "Drupal 8 is the first major release to rely on significant third-party PHP dependencies. These dependencies, such as Symfony, Twig and Guzzle each have their own release and support cycles. As time goes on, our third party dependencies are gradually going to drop security support for the versions we rely on, and we'll then be faced with either forking the version we use to provide security coverage ourselves, or updating to the newer versions. Because Drupal directly exposes the APIs of some of its dependencies, major updates to dependencies can require API changes in Drupal core, and from there require releasing a new major version."

Dries followup to Nat Catchpole's article on Drupal 9.

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A look into how Lullabot helped update Pantheon's web site with a lot of great detail on what was done and why.

Tutorials

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Projects

A Drupal module for bibliography and citations.

Releases

Podcasts