Issue 366 - November, 29th 2018

I'm back after taking the week off for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S and this issue is packed full of goodness.

News

DrupalCon News: A First Look at DrupalCon Seattle’s Scholarship & Grant Recipients

New hook_entity_preload() Added

"Some modules need to act before an entity is loaded, and swap out the default revision with a different one. For example, the Workspaces module swaps the default revision with a workspace-specific revision, if one exists."

Community Working Group Update - November 2018

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Articles

Drupal and Composer: Part 1 — Understanding Composer

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Real World DevOps

Great transcript of Jeff Geerling's NEDCamp 2018 keynote. Video is also available.

State of JSON:API (November 2018)

Wim Leers updates us on the progress for the JSON API module.

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Tutorials

Allow Your Users to Choose Drupal Entities with the Entity Browser Module

BLT and DDEV -- Together!

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How to Create and Manage a Content Workflow in Drupal 8: Either a Standard or a Custom One

Books

New Book: Local Web Development with DDEV Explained

A new book by Michael Anello of DrupalEasy.

Projects

The Release of Docksal 1.11.0

Why You Should Be Using the Simple XML Sitemap 3.0 Release Candidate

Releases

admin_toolbar 8.x-1.25

Audiofield 8.x-1.8

Cas 8.x-1.1

Context 7.x-3.8

copyright_footer 8.x-1.1

Ddev - v1.4.0

Ddev - v1.4.1

Facets 8.x-1.2

Jsonapi 8.x-2.0-Rc2

permissions_by_term 8.x-2.5

search_api 8.x-1.11

search_api_solr 8.x-2.3

show_title 8.x-1.5

simple_sitemap 8.x-3.0-Rc3

workbench_email 8.x-1.0

Video

Code Karate: Drupal 8 Configuration Read-Only Module

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #185 - Launch Llist

Talking Drupal #186 - Live from NEDCamp