OSCON and DrupalCon London
Creative Contingencies went on a 7 week round the world odyssey over winter. Whilst we're now back into the swing of things, here's a brief travelogue of what we got up to.
How do you update Drupal?
Sitting on #drupal-support on IRC, you see people drop by with update problems from time to time. With Drupal 6.21, 6.22, 7.1 and 7.2 released earlier in the week, today was such a day.
The person in question had attempted a Drupal core update via drush, but ran it in the wrong directory. Drupal had picked up this incorrect location for its core modules, so when the drupal-6.22 directory got deleted, it was unable to load any of the core modules. Oops.
This led me to wondering whether the way I manage my Drupal updates is odd and whether sharing it would be useful. Being an open source person, I am of the opinion that sharing is virtual always useful (except when it comes to cheese) so I'll document the way I manage updates here.
Drupal7 is here!
Quick Facts
- Three years in the making
- 1,000 contributors
- Three new themes: Bartik, Seven and Stark
- Improved usability and accessibility
- Extensive documentation
- More than 800 modules ready to go
- Available in 35 languages
- Official Announcement
The Drupal content management platform powers the web presences of the Prime Minister, the State Library of Victoria, McDonald's Australia, Taronga Zoo and a number of Australian Broadcasting Corporation sites including Digmusic, ABCcountry, Pool and Hungrybeast, to name but a few.
Three years in the making, Drupal 7 was released late yesterday.
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Co-authored by Creative Contingencies's Peter Lieverdink.