Talking Drupal #430 - Drupal in 2024

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Dec 25, 2023

Discussion on the future of Drupal in 2024, including Drupal 11 and the introduction of recipes. They explore the use of Symphony Mailer in Drupal 10 and the upcoming deprecation of Drupal 7. The speakers share their experience creating a Drupal Advent Calendar and their expectations for the future of Drupal. They also discuss the challenges of module dependencies and look forward to Drupal 11 with the combination of project browser and recipes.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Future of Drupal 10.2 and Technology Updates

02:17 • 10min

Discussing the Use of Symphony Mailer in Drupal 10

12:29 • 2min

Drupal 7 Deprecation and Drupal Advent Calendar

14:16 • 2min

Creating a Drupal Advent Calendar

16:33 • 12min

The Future of Drupal in 2024

28:47 • 8min

Semantic Versioning and Module Dependencies

36:38 • 18min

Looking Forward to Drupal 11

54:19 • 13min

Drupal 7 and Patching

01:06:52 • 5min

Expanding Drupal Community Through Events

01:12:07 • 3min

Today we are talking about Drupal in 2024, What we are looking forward to with Drupal 11, and the Drupal Advent Calendar with James Shields. We’ll also cover Drupal 10.2 as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/430

Topics

Advent calendar
Selection process
Popularity
Next year
Drupal features in 2024
Drupal 11
- Project browser
- Recipes / Starter templates
- Automated updates
- Gitlab
- Smaller core
Predictions

Resources

Guests

James Shields - lostcarpark.com lostcarpark

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Drupal 10.2

Improvements include
- Technology Updates
  - PHP 8.3
  - Includes capabilities that previously required contrib projects
  - File name sanitization
  - A search filter on the permissions page
- End Users
  - Performance enhancements and improved caching APIs
  - Support for PHP Fibers to accelerate handling things like asynchronous remote calls
- Content Creators
  - Revision UI for media
  - Wider editing area in Claro on large screens
  - The return of “Show blocks” in CKEditor 5, missing until now
- Site Builders
  - Field creation UI has a new, more visual interface, and an updated workflow
  - Block visibility can now be based on the HTTP response status, for example to make it visible or invisible on 404 or 403 responses
  - Tour module is no longer enabled by default for the Standard and Umami profiles
  - New “negated regular expression” operator for views filters (string/integer), to exclude results matching a provided pattern
- Site Owners
  - Announcements Feed is now stable and included in the Standard profile
  - The functionality in the experimental Help Topics module has been merged into the main Help module, so the Help Topics module is now deprecated
  - New permission: Use help pages
- Developers
  - A fairly sizable change is a move to use native PHP attributes instead of doctrine annotations to declare metadata for plugin classes. Work is already underway to get core code converted, and an issue has been opened to have rector do this conversion for contrib projects
  - A new DeprecationHelper::backwardsCompatibleCall() method to help write Drupal extensions that support multiple versions of core
  - A PerformanceTestBase is now in core, to support automated testing of performance metrics
  - A new #config_target property in ConfigFormBase to simplify creating configuration forms
  - Symfony mailer is now a composer dependency of core
  - New decimal primitive data type
  - Expanded configuration validation, Symfony autowiring support, HTML5 output from the HTML utility class is now default, and more
  - In addition to these and the features highlighted in the official announcement, there are three pages of change records for the 10.2.0 release, and we’ll include a link to those in the show notes