Drupal 7.x-dev

The HEAD of the Drupal core CVS repository is now open for the forthcoming 7.x series. This is a development snapshot release for the 7.x series. This is not stable, and production sites should not run this code. However, users wishing to help test and develop the next version of Drupal are encouraged to use this for test sites.

Release notes for DRUPAL-7-0-UNSTABLE-2

Developer Changes

• - Patch #310212 by justinrandell, catch, et all: removed $op from hook_user().
• - Patch #310212 by justinrandell: removed $op from hook_nodeapi().
• #231298 by Crell and rednahead: Allow for aliased multi-site support.
• #206138 by pwolanin: Rename mis-named 'module' attribute in node types.
• #142995 by dopry, drewish, quicksketch, jpetso, and flobruit: Adding hook_file_X().
• #253569 by aaron, agentrickard, and Dave Reid: Add hook_modules_X to allow modules to react when other modules are enabled, disabled, installed, or uninstalled.
• #282405 by Damien Tournoud, lilou, Dave Reid: Enforce coding standard on elseif.
• (various) Stamped out bugs in SimpleTests under certain conditions.

User Changes

• - Patch #296197 by Gabor and meba: Drag and drop on the language selection page.
• #268584 by agentrickard, Rob Loach, and catch: Display more terms (configurable) on the taxonomy administration pages.
• - Patch #309821 by sun et al: automatic site maintenance during update.php.
• #313213 by maartenvg, Gábor Hojtsy: "Nice" permission names that are localizable.
• #305566 by agentrickard and moshe weitzman: Split 'bypass node access' from 'administer nodes'.
• (various) All caught up on Drupal 6 security patches.

Release notes for DRUPAL-7-0-UNSTABLE-1

Developer Changes

• SimpleTest module, an automated code tester, is now in core, along
  with a bazillion tests. These (should) now all pass, so you can use this
  as a guideline to know whether your patches / modules have broken
  anything. See documentation at http://drupal.org/simpletest.
  http://acquia.com/files/test-results/index.html for an idea of how our
  overall test coverage is coming along.
• A completely new database API, known as "Database: The Next
  Generation" (DBTNG). This involves a lot of changes, so please see the
  docs at http://drupal.org/node/310069.
• A "code registry" which is a set of database tables holding all of the
  functions in all of the modules, allowing files to be lazy-loaded. This
  requires changes to your .info files. See
  http://drupal.org/node/224333#registry for more details.
• WYSIWYG editors now have a hope and prayer of integrating with
  textareas given the new #input_format property on textareas.
• Image toolkits can now be supplied by modules. This is nice, so you
  don't have to do awkward copying of 'image.imagemagick.inc' into the
  includes folder.

User Changes

• Core now offers two install profiles: a basic one that sets up stuff
  like an "Article" and "Page" content type, some Taxonomy vocabularies,
  etc. The installer requirements check also got a nice makeover and looks
  more like the status report page.
• Removed several modules and extraneous features: Throttle module's
  gone, Ping module's gone, access rules are gone, that horrible wall of
  comment settings is gone, etc.
• Added drag-and-drop to a bunch of areas (poll results, languages,
  etc.) that missed them in D6.
• Permissions now have descriptions, and node permissions are now sorted
  by content type rather than by verb.