News Roundup

Acquia on its website announced that for the third consecutive year, Acquia has been named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DXP.

Acquia Japan is hosting a free virtual webinar on New Relic APM on 20th April 2020, at 11:30 GMT.

Bjarney (Baddy) Sonja the owner and co-founder of 1xINTERNET and the Board Chair of the Drupal Association during her keynote in Dev Days focused on Sleep Work Live.

On 14th April 2022 at 1pm (ET), A11y Talks with Mike Hercel are hosting a session on ‘Practical Styling in Forced Colors Mode’.

Evolving Web is conducting various paid online professional Drupal training programs through the rest of this year.

Drupal Developer Days 2022 is happening as an in-person event at last after a gap of 2 years following the Covid-19 pandemic. The event started today Monday, April 4th and will end on the 8th, Friday.

The DrupalCon Portland team has decided to have dedicated spaces for people to spend some alone time, offer prayers and meditate.

Drupal Discover by Drupal Association is a 12-month long scholarship and training program for underrepresented individuals.

The latest Drupal modules released this week as per TheWeeklyDrop Issue 529 of March 31, 2022, are listed here.

Drupal.org released an update for their Fourth Quarter of 2021 summing up all of the important news and achievements from the past year.

Here is a peek at some of the interesting events planned for DrupalCon Portland 2022

DrupalCon Prague 2022 opened submissions for sessions, panel discussions and workshops till 19th April 2020.

Chapter Three Managing Partner, John Faber announced on March 22nd, 2022 that it is now part of the Vercel Partner program.

The Drupal Security team announced on March 23rd, 2022 the moderately critical Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Role Delegation project according to the Security advisory SA-CONTRIB-2022-031.

The Drupal Security team announced the Colorbox Node project as unsupported on March 23rd, 2022,  and therefore the vulnerability that was detected as critical according to the Security advisory SA-CONTRIB-2022-030

Marketing Automation is the use of software to automate monotonous marketing tasks and here we discuss the top Drupal modules that can help you.

The Drupal Security Team announced on March 21, 2022, a moderately critical vulnerability in Drupal 9 Core third party library SA-CORE-2022-006.

The Drupal Security team announced on March 16, 2022, a moderately critical vulnerability in Drupal 9 Core third-party libraries SA-CORE-2022-005.

If you want to build a robust web application and are wondering why Drupal is a perfect choice for you then here is your answer.

The Drupal Security Team announced on March 9th, 2022 a moderately critical access bypass vulnerability in Opigno Learning path SA-CONTRIB-20220-029.

The Drupal Security Team announced on March 9th, 2022 a critical cross site scripting (XSS) error in SVG Formatter SA-CONTRIB-20220-028.

In a Fireside Chat organized by DIA, Dries Buytaert talked about how happy he is with the changes in the Indian Drupal community and how they can improve.

Dries Buytaert in a chat hosted by Drupal India Association talks about the learning opportunities with low code no code systems and the possibility of pure headless turning out to be niche in the long run.

The latest Drupal modules released this week as per TheWeeklyDrop Issue 526 of March 10, 2022, are listed here.

Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal was speaking at ‘Fireside chat with Dries Buytaert’, an event championed by the Drupal India Association as part of DIA Refresh 2022. Shyamala Rajaram, co-founder, and CEO of Unimity Solutions and Rahul Dewan, founder of Srijan, were the hosts of the Event and led a lively question-answer session with Dries covering a variety of topics. Starting with the influence of family on Dries’ choice of interest in Computer Science and the creation of Drupal and Acquia, the conversation covered headless Drupal, marketing, the future of Drupal, and other technologies. For Dries Buytaert, it all seemed to be a natural progression and makes for an interesting insight into how he rolled with the punches! Read on to get a gist of the conversation that followed.
The second leg of the event will continue on March 12, Saturday.

DrupalCon Portland 2022 will have an ‘Open Source Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ Fireside Chat with Demetris Cheatham and Lauren Maffeo as the speakers.

The Drupal India Association is organising a country wide camp that will kick-off on 10th March 2022 with a fire-side chat with Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal.

Suzanne Dergacheva (pixelite) in a blog discusses how DrupalCon can be the best place to learn about Drupal Migration.

North West Drupal User Group (NWDUG) will be meeting up online on Tuesday, March 8 at 7:00 PM GMT. Peter Fisher will talk on the topic, “Code with confidence using PHPStan”.

As per TheWeeklyDrop Issue 525, the latest Drupal modules released this week ending with March 3rd, 2022, are listed here.

CTI Group secured a £25M minority investment from LDC to expand their existing suite of digital services and expand internationally.

SJ Innovation is offering a free Drupal Beginners Training course for beginners web/software developers, college students and interns.

Over the last month Drupal Association leadership has been through a few changes with the resignation of the Chair of Board of Directors and Executive Director.

Using the right Drupal modules has a big impact on the website performance, and here are the top 9 Drupal modules for Drupal 9 websites in 2022.

Dries Buytaert in his blog talks about how he built and published his first web page using web3 technologies and the potential of web3.

The Drupal Association released a statement condemning the Russian Government for the ongoing attack on Ukraine and clearly expressed their stand with Ukraine.

As per TheWeeklyDrop Issue 524, the latest Drupal modules released this week ending with February 24, 2022, are listed here.

Drupal Security Team announced on February 23rd, 2022, a moderately critical Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the GOV.UK Theme SA-CONTRIB-2022-027.

The Drupal Security Team announced on February 23rd 2022, a moderately critical Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Entity Reference Tree Widget module SA-CONTRIB-2022-026.

Owing to the large user base of websites still on Drupal 7, the Drupal Association along with the Drupal Project Lead Dries Buytaert and the Drupal Security Working Group have decided to extend Drupal  7’s End-Of-Life to November 1, 2023.