Issue 217 - November, 26th 2015

News

Drupal 8.0.0 Released

"This is the biggest update ever to Drupal, our open source content management platform."

Drupal 8.0.0 Released - Buytaert.net

Dries Buytaert post announcing last week's release of Drupal 8.

Celebr8 D8

If you have something to say about Drupal 8 the world needs to hear it. Submit your video to the Celebr8 site and share it with the world.

Drupal 8 Launch Party Pics #Celebr8d8

Submitted your Drupal 8 launch party photos to the Flickr group for #Celebr8D8

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Commerce 2.x Stories: Products

Bojan Zivanovic shares what was learned from the Products module in Drupal Commerce 1 and how that has guided the development of Commerce in Drupal 8.

Bob, why are you linking to a non-Drupal Article? Because it's relevant. This week Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic, the company behind Wordpress.com made an interesting announcement. Wordpress.com which provides Wordpress sites for thier customers released a decoupled Javascript based single page web app. This replaces the PHP based WP-admin. Why does this matter to Drupal? It shows the importance of web services(APIs). Decoupled architectures are going to continue be in higher demand in the coming years and Drupal is headed in the right direction.

How to Do a Site Audit

SIte audits are important and important to do properly. Jody Hamilton gives us a handy guide to doing them well.

Drupal 8

8 Months of Drupal 8 on Production

In reference to how how great configuration management is in Drupal 8, "Letting go, and letting config is a stretch for people that were used to managing their Features like an overprotective mama bear."

Build a Blog in Drupal 8: Create and Manage Menus

Ivan Zugec shows us some basics in Drupal 8 site building.

Drupal 8 Migration - All the Modules

A table of all of the Drupal 8 migration modules by feature as well as their corresponding Drupal 7 versions.

Drupal 8 Milestones in Tweets

A nice collection of tweets from the Drupal 8 development cycle.

Drupal 8 Release Day: Docs Polished & Ready!

Wim Leers points to the documentation for many of the new modules in Drupal core such as Quick Edit, Filter module and the Cache system to name a few.