Issue 291 - May, 25th 2017

News

"The important first step for media support in core just landed in Drupal 8.4.x: a new beta experimental Media module to support storing media of various types. While Drupal core already has generic file upload and image upload support, the new module will support asset reuse and be extensible to support video, remote media, embedding, and so on."

"We are modernizing our JavaScript by moving to ECMAScript 6 (ES6) for core development. ES6 is a major update to JavaScript that includes dozens of new features. In order to move to ES6, contributors will have to use a new workflow."

Drupal Core is transitioning to using Stylelint for CSS linting.

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Cog is a basic starting point for a new theme project developed by Acquia's professional services front-end team.

Learn how to add a new field to a content type in Drupal 8 and re-save all the nodes with default values for the field, using the Batch API and hook_update_N.

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