Issue 237 - April, 28th 2016

News

Drupal 8.1.0 Is Now Available

"Drupal 8.1.0 comes with numerous improvements, including CKEditor WYSIWYG enhancements, added APIs, an improved help page, and two new experimental modules. (Experimental modules are provided with Drupal core for testing purposes, but are not yet fully supported.)"

Reinventing Drupal’s User Experience Process

"The Drupal core product needs to become more engaging and useful right out of the box. Usability testing has shown why. We want to look at how we can change our process to be more efficient and effective."

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Articles

Applaud the Drupal Maintainers

Praise from Drupal's team lead, Dries Buytaert.

Drupal 8.1 and What It Means for Drupal's Future

A very helpful high level overview of Drupal 8.1.x

Drupal 8.1: BigPipe as an Experimental Module

"With your help (in other words: by testing), we can help BigPipe “graduate” as a stable module in Drupal 8.2. This is the sort of module that needs wider testing because it changes how pages are delivered, so before it can be considered stable, it must be tested in as many circumstances as possible, including the most exotic ones."

Drupal Commerce: Upgrade Paths Between Drupal 8 Module Versions

This post could prove very valuable if you need to import, revert, or delete an array of configurations.

Rough Plan for Planning to Port a Site to Drupal 8

Damien McKenna outlines how he is breaking down migrating a site to Drupal 8 into steps. It's a quick read, but helpful if you are doing something g similar.