WordPress 4.6 Release Candidate
July 27th, 2016
The release candidate for WordPress 4.6 is now available. We’ve made a few refinements since releasing Beta 4 a week ago. RC means we think we’re done, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible we’ve missed something. We hope to ship WordPress 4.6 on Tuesday, August 16, but we need…
Fresh Guides from Victor Savkin
July 26th, 2016
Since the early days of Angular 2, core team member Victor Savkin has posted his personal thoughts on the platform to his own blog. These offer an internal perspective on how someone who builds Angular thinks about its core concepts. Victor just refreshed his older posts with the latest and greatest from the current release…
Progressive web apps running as native OS X apps
July 26th, 2016
Progressive Web Apps are getting ready for desktop If you follow the Progressive Web App scene you’ve probably already seen multiple examples of the Air Horner app in mobile browsers such as Opera Mobile and Chrome for Android. However it is not easy to get your favorite PWA (such as Air Horner) to be a…
Create Apps with No Configuration
July 22nd, 2016
Create React App is a new officially supported way to create single-page React applications. It offers a modern build setup with no configuration. Getting Started # Installation # First, install the global package: npm install -g create-react-app Node.js 4.x or higher is required. Creating an App # Now you can use it to create a…
City of Boston launches Boston.gov on Drupal
July 21st, 2016
Republished from buytaert.net Yesterday, the City of Boston launched its new website, Boston.gov, on Drupal. Not only is Boston a city well-known around the world, it has also become my home over the past 9 years. That makes it extra exciting to see the city of Boston use Drupal. As a company headquartered in Boston, I’m…
A dedicated team for AngularDart
July 20th, 2016
Until now, the multiple language flavors of Angular 2 were written as TypeScript source, and then automatically compiled to both JavaScript and Dart. We’re happy to announce that going forward, we are splitting the Angular 2 codebase into two flavors—a Dart version and a TypeScript/JavaScript version—and creating a dedicated Angular Dart team. While this single-source…
Drupal 8.1.7 released
July 18th, 2016
Drupal 8.1.7, a maintenance release which contains fixes for security vulnerabilities, is now available for download. See the Drupal 8.1.7 release notes for further information. Download Drupal 8.1.7 Upgrading your existing Drupal 8 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features nor non-security-related bug fixes in this release. For more information about the Drupal…
Drupal Core – Highly Critical – Injection – SA-CORE-2016-003
July 18th, 2016
Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2016-002 Project: Drupal core Version: 8.x Date: 2016-July-18 Security risk: 20/25 ( Highly Critical) AC:Basic/A:None/CI:All/II:All/E:Proof/TD:Default Vulnerability: Injection Description Drupal 8 uses the third-party PHP library Guzzle for making server-side HTTP requests. An attacker can provide a proxy server that Guzzle will use. The details of this are explained at https://httpoxy.org/. CVE identifier(s) issued…
What’s new on Drupal.org? – June 2016
July 15th, 2016
Read our Roadmap to understand how this work falls into priorities set by the Drupal Association with direction and collaboration from the Board and community. In June the Drupal Association had our annual staff retreat, where the remote team members joined the Portland, OR team for a three day retreat. This year’s retreat was particularly…
WordPress 4.6 Beta 3
July 13th, 2016
WordPress 4.6 Beta 3 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site just to play with the new version. To test WordPress 4.6, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge nightlies”). Or you can…