The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.Here's a few things that I'd like to see from the 8.x-2.0 branch. I'm happy to help implement where they are agreed.
1. A stable release. This helps composer build times, gives us a stable platform to build on and we can get security support.
2. A debugging section on the admin form that allows a user to input an IP and get a result from the current plugin. Screenshot attached.
3. Support for the plugin architecture to getCountry, getCity, supportsCity or similar. Deprecate ->geolocation().
A nice to have would be to:
1. Provide a way to implement auto updating of databases for the enabled plugin from cron and/or drush commands.
2. A hook_requirements() to show which plugin is enabled, and if the plugin supports it, when the data was last updated / out of date.
I really like the D8 architecture and can see this being more generic than using maxminds databases, like the already added CDN plugin.
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Comments
Comment #2
bojanz commentedWelcome aboard!
I've just tagged 8.x-2.0-beta1 with the current state of the codebase. This gives people something to use while we work on RC1.
Sure, why not.
Sounds like we need a value object that contains known data, filled by each plugin to the best of its capabilities, right?
That would be great, let's do it in #2893462: Auto update the maxmind database every month to improve accuracy.
Comment #3
interdruper commentedAs pointed out in #2893462-3: Auto update the maxmind database every month to improve accuracy, starting December 30, 2019, a MaxMind account is required for downloading the database. Automatic updates would be possible if the license key could be entered in the module config panel.
Comment #4
interdruper commentedAnother couple of useful features to implement:
Comment #5
valicClosing this in favor of 3455646 3.1.x plans.