Drupal 4.6.8 and Drupal 4.7.2 are available for download. These are maintenance releases that fix problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as two security vulnerabilities.

Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is strongly recommended.

Download

• Drupal 4.6.8 can be downloaded from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-4.6.8.tar.gz.
• Drupal 4.7.2 can be downloaded from http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-4.7.2.tar.gz.

Subject: Drupal, Q&A, Chatting
Location: Paris On the Platte (gmap)
Audience:Anyone who is interested in Drupal or has used it before. The Q&A and chats are what you make of them. Likely topics include "AJAX" and CCK and Views.

It's been exactly one month since we released Drupal 4.7.0, and exactly three months until the next code and feature freeze. You might think that, since Drupal 4.7.0 was only recently released, we've been enjoying cocktails and other carnal delights on exotic beaches. Quite the contrary, in fact, and so it is time to provide a quick overview of the completed developments. Read on for more information.

Drupal is a content management system (CMS) built on the PHP and MySQL combination (detailed requirements here). I've been working with the latest version since its release at the beginning of this month. Drupal 4.7 is a significant upgrade that brings major short- and long-term benefits to users and distributors of the system. It brings Drupal back to the cutting edge of CMS development.

Read the full article.

I'm pleased to announce the first ever world-wide Drupal Developer TeleConference! All Drupal developers, those wishing to become developers or just those with an interest in Drupal's development process are encouraged to attend. Also, all SoC students and mentors are requested to attend.

The conference line will open at Noon Pacific(GMT-7), 3PM Eastern, 4PM Atlantic for introductions and chatting, and the "official" conference will begin at 12:15Pacific and will last for approx. 45min. Dries will be talking about Drupal's beginnings and the future of Drupal, Karoly will talk about projects and code and Angie will be discussing SoC. There will also be a question period after each speaker.

Also Jeff Robbins from Lullabot will record the conference as a podcast which will be made available on drupal.org. Thanks Jeff & Lullabot!

For more information about how to attend this conference, including the free skype number and call in numbers for the US, UK, France and Germany, read on.