Drupal core is moving towards using a main branch. As an interim step, a new 11.x branch has been opened, since Drupal.org infrastructure cannot fully support a Drupal core branch named main currently. This will bring Drupal in line with many other projects.

Before: Moving development branch

Drupal core previously opened a new minor branch (like 10.2.x) each time the previous minor released its first alpha (like 10.1.0-alpha1). This ensured that developers could immediately work on the next minor development version, but it made the most recent branch a moving target that changed every six months.

From 10.1 onwards, we will change our branch naming strategy, for the following reasons:

• Make it easier for developers to choose the correct branch for issues.
• Remove noise on issues from the automated comments created when a branch is opened.
• Remove the overhead from issue bulk updates for branch changes.
• Reduce merge conflicts and merge request permission problems caused by target branch changes.

After: Introducing the 11.x branch

This new 11.x branch will be used as the main development trunk until Drupal.org supports the main branch name. Future feature and API additions will be targeted against the 11.x branch. All outstanding issues filed against 10.1.x will be automatically migrated to 11.x.

The 10.2.x branch will be opened from 11.x prior to 10.2.0.

Comparing the old and new branching model. View a bigger version.
 

From now on, all patches and merge requests should be submitted to 11.x. Changes will be cherry-picked or backported from 11.x to minor branches as required. Backport versions of patches and merge requests can still be posted against specific branches.

Despite the branch name, Drupal 11 development is not yet open. The 11.x branch will still accept only minor-version allowed changes until Drupal 11 development begins.. When Drupal 11 development begins, we will branch the next Drupal 10 minor branch prior to the Drupal 11 alpha development phase, and only then will 11.x will allow Drupal-11-specific changes.

There is currently a 'stub' 11.0.x branch for holding 11.x-only issues that can't be worked on yet. These issues will also be moved to the 11.x branch, and we will use an [11.x] title prefix and 'Major version only' issue tag to distinguish them. 11.0.x will then be opened properly when we're ready to tag an alpha release.

We will rename the 11.x branch to main when possible.

Why DrupalCon?

DrupalCon is the premier 3-4 day conference for the Drupal community. It brings together developers, content creators, site builders, and business leaders from around the world to learn and share their Drupal knowledge. You will have the chance to attend sessions, workshops, and keynotes led by some of the most innovative and successful Drupal leaders. The best part of DrupalCon (in my opinion) is participating in community events, networking opportunities, and social events with the vibrant community of Drupal enthusiasts. Check out this video below from the Drupal Association to learn more.

The internet has brought a paradigm shift in the world of education. Distance learning caused quite a stir during the mid-19th century when its first echoes were heard by people worldwide. Over the years, it continued to progress slowly, but the pandemic made it witness exponential growth and pushed it to a whole new dimension. Overnight, all educational institutions and business organizations transitioned to online learning to educate students and train remote employees. Within days, every school, university, coaching center, and business organization had its learning management system (LMS) like Drupal to cater to the educational needs of their pupils and employees. Drupal development for LMS integration is one of the best possible choices in the content management system (CMS) market for creating and managing an effective LMS. No doubt, we are no longer confined by lockdowns today, but the changes induced by the pandemic have been irreversible.

People of this generation expect websites to provide personalized digital experiences that speak to their individual needs and preferences. To back this up, Salesforce did a study and found that 66% of customers expect brands to understand their needs and expectations. As a Custom Software Development Services provider we are aware of the fact that personalized website content can keep users engaged, boost conversions, and foster long-term loyalty. It's now a breeze to achieve this by using content groups to organize your website's content based on shared traits or user interests.

In the article, you will learn how to slither into the world of leveraging content groups for a personalized Drupal experience. Brace yourself for the next level of personalization on your website - it's unarguably the best choice to make!

Behind every Drupal website are the modules and configuration settings that define the website's content model, authoring experience, presentation, and integrations. This post will explain and explore how the Schema.org Blueprints module handles configuration compared to a Drupal distribution and a Drupal recipe.

A Drupal distribution provides a predefined list of modules and configuration that define an entire website solution. For example, distributions offer a starting point for building a commerce, government, or intranet website. The Drupal community has acknowledged that distributions can be too opinionated and can become challenging to maintain.

There is now a Recipes initiative whose goal is to provide a modernized approach for distributions. A 'recipe' is a composable piece of site functionality and features bundled together. For example, a 'recipe' would provide an event registration system with an Event content type, a calendar view, and an online registration webform.

After installing a distribution or recipe, developers and site builders must alter and reconfigure what is installed to meet their organization's unique requirements. The 'Recipe' initiative and the Schema.org Blueprint module share the goal of providing a better starting point for building out a website's features and functionality. The big difference between these two solutions is the Schema.org Blueprints module does not ship with a predefined content model and configuration. Instead,...Read More

Today we are talking about The D9 Book with Selwyn Polit.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/398

• What is the Drupal at your fingertips book
• When did you start the book
• How long did the first draft take
• Why is it online only
  • Have you considered printing it
• How often do you work on it
• Most interesting tidbit
  • Most obscure
• What was it like using git for a book
• Any plans to use Drupal for editing
• Do you plan to update it for Drupal 10
• Any AI tools
  • Chat GPT
  • Github copilot
• Any plans to expand to other technologies
• How can you contribute to the book

• Cloudflare Worker Purge blog: Let Them Eat Cache
• Book
• Notion for notes
• NV Alt for notes
• Pandoc for converting word docs to markdown automagically
• drupal.org book
• Lex Fridman interviewing Sam altman podcast
• ChatGPT
• Github copilot
• Form api reference drupal
• Reddit
• PHPStorm
• VSCode

Selwyn Polit - selwynpolit.github.io/d9book @selwynpolit

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Jordan Graham - @jordanlgraham

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu Cloudflare Worker Purge Allows your site to use the Purge module to do tag-based cache invalidation on Cloudflare using Cloudflare Workers.

One thing most of us have in common is the thought about the future. The future, in essence, is an uncertain time for which we have certain plans. We only recently had a tryst with this irony during the pandemic. It was an experience nonpareil for most human beings.

The pandemic sure taught us about the uncertainty levels that the future can hold. At the same time, it also handed us valuable lessons to wade through such tough waters. No matter how hard we resist, times change. The most important thing is to be a changing human. In these times, many are wary about the changes brought in by AI and other related technological advancements. It is sure that such new things will change the world as we see it. But, as human beings, we are equipped with the capability to surmount such challenges by using our unique intellects.

A lot lies to be learned from the human experiences of the pandemic: The way businesses diversified their product lines, how people switched careers, how re-skilling and up-skilling turned out to be vital, and how preserving our health—both physical and mental—is the foundation of all success. I think it is suitable for all of us to periodically rethink the pandemic experience and re-learn the lessons that it handed down. It would help us re-orient our journeys towards success in the future. It helps us to be ready for the future.

Let's look at the important stories published in the past week.

Over the last week, we published several interviews with our distinguished community members. Two of them were speakers at the MidCamp 2023. Ashraf Abed, the founder of Debug Academy, spoke to The Drop Times (TDT) about Drupal, Debug Academy and Drupal TV. Shani Maurya, another speaker at the MidCamp, and a staff engineer at Axelerant shared his thoughts with us.

We had a video interview about DrupalSouth with Owen Lansbury, co-founder of PreviousNext and elected Chair of the Drupal South Steering Committee.

Akseli Miettinen, a speaker at DrupalCamp Finland and an IT Consultant at Silli Solutions, spoke with TDT about his career and how to mould new Drupal developers.

TDT also published an interview with Mike Gifford, Drupal's Core Accessibility Maintainer and a Senior Strategist at Civic Action. He deliberates on the measures and methods to improve accessibility.

Founder and Project Lead of Drupal Dries Buytaert's recent LinkedIn post reveals that the prize money has been raised to $70,000 (USD) for the Drupal Pitch-burg innovation contest.

Look at the courses Debug Academy is offering this May and June. Evolving Web has published a blog that compares Drupal Media Library and Acquia DAM by Widen. Drupal migration is an ever-interesting topic. The blog post by LN Webworks throws light on the importance of migrating to newer versions. The article also clears the misconceptions about migration.

CKEditor 5 is the modern replacement for the CKEditor module. Evolving Web's blog post explains the points to keep in mind while activating the latest version of Drupal 10. Specbee has published on how to build a Drupal website on Pantheon hosting. Make Drupal Easy has published a blog post on the new changes that made Drupal more attractive. Drupal 9 is powerful in creating multilingual websites. Read the blog post by LN Webworks on how to get it done.

ComputerMinds has a way to solve the Query String Parameter Issue in Drupal 9.

Dates are finalized for Pune Drupal Meetup. It is scheduled for August 5 and 6. Backdrop CMS is hosting office hours on May 10. Drupal Meet Tokyo is scheduled for May 11. The organizers of Decoupled Days have extended the date to submit session proposals. Interested community members can now offer sessions until 11:59 pm PDT on May 12.

If you are attending DrupalSouth 2023 in person in Wellington, we need your help. We seek volunteers to cover the community's excellent work. We need your help to ensure we capture all the crucial moments of the conference.

That is all for the week,
Your's truly,
Thomas Alias K, 
Sub-Editor, TheDropTimes

Right from its inception, Drupal has remained the top choice for distinguished companies around the world, thanks to its cutting-edge features and excellent performance in the Drupal development field. Its glitter has never faded but rather has only brightened over the fifteen years of its phenomenal existence. On a 10-point scale, this ingenious content management system (CMS) has consistently secured number 10, never dwindling even for a microsecond. This bespeaks Drupal’s excellence. Its persistent upgradation in congruence with the ever-changing world of the internet, it has also become a popular choice for eCommerce development.