August 2011
Drupal 7.8 released
Drupal 7.8, a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) is now available for download. A critical bug with the upgrade path, #1164852: (regression) Node bodies display as empty after upgrade to 7.7 from 6.x if the nodes have a language has been addressed in this release, among other critical and major bugs. See the Drupal 7.8 release notes for a full listing.
Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement.
Drupalcon Denver 2012 Call for Speakers
Denver, CO is hosting the next North American DrupalCon happening on March 19-23, 2012 at the massive, well-appointed Colorado Convention Center. The worldwide Drupal Community is what makes DrupalCon so fun and exciting, and Colorado's community is thrilled to be the home of "Drupal Elevated" -- tickets go on sale soon, so be sure to follow us on twitter and we'll tell you what's going on, @drupalcondenver.
Core office hours start this week
Drupal core needs more eyes and more contributors to decrease the very high amount of unresolved issues.
We're going to hold the first core "office hours" this week in #drupal-contribute on freenode:
- Tuesday, 04:00 UTC
- Wednesday, 16:00 UTC
Depending on how this goes, we may continue these slots weekly (with a break for DrupalCon).
Joomla Community Magazine | August 2011
The August installment of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Here are the stories in this issue:
Editor's Introduction
The Road Forward..., by Dianne Henning
State of Drupal 2011 survey
The last time I organized a State of Drupal survey was in 2008. The results of the 2008 survey were instrumental in shaping Drupal 7 as well as directing the work of the Drupal Association on drupal.org.
Now three years later, I created a new survey. The results of this survey will guide thousands of people in the Drupal community over the next two years.