Issue 270 - December, 15th 2016

Issue 270 is the final one of 2016. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season. I'll see you in 2017!

Bob Kepford

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"There is now a new experimental subsystem in core called Layout, in the namespace \Drupal\Core\Layout. This is adapted from the contrib module Layout Plugin, used primarily by Panels and Display Suite."

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It's just a matter of time until you will need to alter the SQL that Views writes. If you'd like to learn how to do this read this post from ChapterThree's Theo Ballew.

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