Sharpen your pencils because Drupal will be exhibiting at London's LinuxWorld 2005 show this October, and we need a t-shirt design to commemorate the event. The winning entry will be printed up for the Drupal stand attendants to wear, plus for anyone who requests one, and the designer will get a t-shirt as well. Entries must be submitted by September 25th. The ultimate decision of which design wins will be left to Dries (or anyone he delegates).

The Drupal project is proud to announce a new service for our users here at Drupal.org — Planet Drupal. In addition, Drupal talk is back from the dead now. Planet Drupal is a place where the Drupal-related blog posts of many Drupal developers, users and supporters are aggregated. Drupal talk is similar in nature to Planet Drupal, but aggregates a lot more Drupal-related content, including usenet posts, forum posts, mailinglists and lots more. Click "read more" for more information.

In preparation of the Drupal 4.7.0 release, development of Drupal core will be frozen on September 15th rather than on September 1st as mentioned earlier. The code freeze has been postponed for two weeks so some important changes can make it into the Drupal 4.7 release series (hopefully). Read on for more information about the Drupal 4.7.0 roadmap.

The Onion is a high traffic US humor site, with parody on just about everything. The humor is often off color, since it is intended for 18 and older. Recently, they moved to Drupal. Here is a humorous post by the editor Phineas Zwiebel on the move.

Evolt.org is delighted to announce that it has moved its main site from a bespoke solution to Drupal. When we first launched evolt.org, content management systems cost USD $100.000 and more, so we took the revolutionary step of building our own (and later open sourcing it). For the last 6 years, evolt.org had lived on a custom built CMS, migrating from MS Access and Windows NT, to Oracle and Linux to MSSQL and Windows 2000 along the way. The previous evolution was launched in December 2000 (yes, really), and had served evolt.org extremely well.

Welcome back to the Drupal newsletter! We have received great acknowledgment from the community, and have had a generous supply of content thanks to our contributors. As always, we are a completely open newsletter. Good Drupal-related content is always welcomed and encouraged!

As you probably already have heard, Drupal 4.6.3 was released this week. The new XML-RPC vulnerability this addresses would allow an attacker to take over the server.

A code freeze in preparation of 4.7 was also announced this month. The freeze, scheduled to happen on September 1st, will move the latest HEAD code into a new 4.7 branch to be worked on, and debugged, before final release.

The Google Summer of Code (SoC) workers has also made some great enhancements to the codebase, adding many new modules and features for Drupal users to enjoy.

There is a lot more to discover this month, so let’s get started...