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Drupal.org updates

Healthcare Industry Page

Healthcare industry page launched

One of our major goals this year is to highlight the power of Drupal in key industries. The Drupal.org industry pages highlight the story of building a custom-tailored solution for each industry using third-party integrations, expert hosting, or even purpose built distributions for the industry. Each page also highlights case studies which show demonstrated success stories using Drupal in each industry. In June we've launched our latest industry page, highlighting the Healthcare industry.

Semantic Labels for Development Branches

Semantic labels for core

With a six month release cycle for Drupal core, the environment that project maintainers should test their code against will change fairly frequently. To make it easier for maintainers to keep up to date with testing - we've introduced semantic labels for the core branches. Maintainers can now configure tests against Default — the current development branch of Drupal, Stable — the most recent release of core, and Supported — the current patch/bug-fix branch.

These semantic labels should make it easier for project maintainers to manage testing. We hope to expand on this with a few more labels, and may even extend these semantic labels to the version field that issues are filed against in the future.

UTF8MB4 support

As mentioned in last month's update, we've updated the Drupal.org and the sub-sites to support the UTF8MB4 extended character set. While the changes for the sub-sites were deployed in May, we finished up by adding support to Drupal.org itself in June. Among other things, this means that Drupal.org will no longer throw errors if emoji are used in content. 😄

Updating our membership CRM

Drupal Association Membership is managed using the CiviCRM platform - and in June we spent a bit of time updating to the latest version and troubleshooting some issues around receipting and renewals. Members can check their current membership status on the membership page. If you're not yet a member or you need to renew, check out our membership certificate offer.

Performance improvements

To increase performance on Drupal.org we've updated to the latest version of the Advanced Aggregator module (special thanks to u/mikeytown2). The latest updated includes aggregation of font from the Google fonts api, which should make a material difference in Drupal.org page render times.

Better spam moderation tools

A recent surge of spam attacks targeting Drupal.org has lead us to take another pass at updating our spam moderation tools. Spammers continue with a never ending escalation of tactics, and so we are constantly evolving our tools for managing spam. We've implemented some rate limiting protections as well as some new moderation views that will make it easier for us to bulk moderate spam. We'll be continuing with some of this work into July so that we can keep Drupal.org's home free from spam and productive.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure partner selected

In March we kicked off an RFP process to find a Managed Infrastructure Services vendor to partner with us to help maintain and improve the Drupal.org infrastructure. In June we reached a decision and have selected Tag1 Consulting as our partner. We're now working with Tag1 to audit our current infrastructure, policies, as well as monitoring and alerting systems as we kick off this relationship. Tag1 brings a tremendous amount of experience in Drupal infrastructure management as well as making Drupal performant at scale - and we're grateful to have them on board. With a partner on board to help us manage our infrastructure our internal team will focus on features and issues that support our mission.
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As always, we’d like to say thanks to all the volunteers who work with us, and to the Drupal Association Supporters, who made it possible for us to work on these projects. In particular we want to thank:

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