Issue 252 - August, 11th 2016

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Steve Burge highlights some of the changes in Drupal 8.2.

Steve Burge makes a bold statement. "So, Drupal is adjusting successfully to the new reality. Big releases are probably history. Drupal's future is in regular, small, backwards-compatible releases."

Gábor Hojtsy responds to Steve Burge's bold declaration that there will never be a Drupal 9. Worth reading.

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Tutorials

If you've heard all the buzz about Paragraphs module but haven't had time to check it out give this post a look for a simple example of how you can use this versatile project.

Daniel Pickering shows us how you can set up text validation in Drupal 8 without writing any custom code.

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A letter from the future about your Drupal 6 site.

"Every Drupal developer knows the following error message (maybe some by heart): The content has been modified by another user, changes cannot be saved."

Working with Views can be a challenge. But Israel Morales says, "Many developers use the preprocess functions, or alter the query of the view, however there is another option: twig filters."

Projects

The Drupal Console project is being broken up into separate projects.

Releases

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Events

August 27-28, 2016 in Irvine, California.

September 3rd, 2016 in Sydney, Australia.

October 20-23, 2016 in Berkeley, California.