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Friday, July 7, 2023 by Kevin Paxman
We started with Drupal-related notes:
Drupal 10.1 is now available- Drupal 10.1.0 release notes
- Drupal 9.5.10 release notes
- Drupal 10.1.1 release notes
- 2023 Aaron Winborn award winner: Randy Fay
- Media to provide a UI for viewing, reverting and deleting revisions
- render array structure for field block content will have an extra level of nesting
- permissions checking to be centralized to a new PermissionChecker service
- Entity Reference field items will have to implement new EntityReferenceItemInterface
- new permission: use help pages
- new config schema data type: machine_name
- the Drupal open web manifesto
- hot takes from DrupalCon Pittsburgh
- DrupalCon 2023 recap: the future of Drupal
- using Drupal 10's new Twig filters to set attributes on images
- 2023 Drupal local development survey results
- CKEditor 5 and Drupal 10: fueling innovation in content creation
- Drupal 7's end of life: a simple guide and recommended actions
- improving Drupal's administration UX
- dependency patch resolution
- guide to using the Bootstrap UI Kit module
- EvolveDrupal conference coming to Toronto in September
Next, we moved on to general web notes:
- new to the web platform in May
- new browser offering: Chrome for Testing
- Firefox users on macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 1.14 moving to extended support release, with support ending in September 2024
- fit-to-width text
- request for a CSS feature to make text always fit the width of its parent
- FitText: a plugin for inflating web type
- future CSS: state container queries
- introducing Twitter alternative Threads, from Meta (Instagram/Facebook)
- original Threads app differentiates themselves from the Meta app
- Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads
- the password game
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "Multisites, microteam - Maintaining multi tenant web properties at Harvard Medical School" from DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023.
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next session is scheduled for July 28, 2023.
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