cdn 8.x-3.1

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Works with Drupal: 8.x

Using Composer to manage Drupal site dependencies

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Release notes

The first stable release (8.x-3.0) was released just over 8 months ago. Zero bugs have been reported! In this release:

2 new minor features: Cache-Control: immutable (#2838309: Make "Forever cacheable files" use `Cache-Control: immutable`) and rel="preconnect" (#2874594: Support for rel="preconnect"), both of which are new upcoming web standards! (See https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/#preconnect and https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-immutable-03, respectively.)
"bugfixes": one trivial PHP notice and minor test coverage problems

The 8.x-3.0 release notes:

The CDN module is fully ported to Drupal 8. It is much simpler to use (just look at the UI). It has less overhead (the UI is in a separate module, the altering of file URLs has far simpler logic). It has lower technical complexity (File Conveyor support was dropped, it no longer needs to detect HTTP vs HTTPS: it always uses protocol-relative URLs, less unnecessary configurability, the farfuture functionality no longer tries to generate file and no longer has extremely detailed configurability).

In other words: the CDN module in Drupal 8 is much simpler. And has much better test coverage too. (You can see this in the tarball size too: it's about half of the Drupal 7 version of the module, despite significantly more test coverage!)

all the fundamentals

the ability to use simple CDN mappings, including conditional ones depending on file extensions, auto-balancing, and complex combinations of all of the above

DNS prefetching

a simple UI to set it up — in fact, much simpler than before!

changed/improved

the CDN module now always uses protocol-relative URLs, which means there's no more need to distinguish between HTTP and HTTPS, which simplifies a lot

the UI is now a separate module (fixes #1784432: Version 3.0: move UI of CDN module into a cdn_ui module)

the UI is optional: for power users there is a sensible configuration structure with strict config schema validation

complete unit test coverage of the heart of the CDN module, thanks to D8's improved architecture

DNS prefetching using headers rather than tags in <head>, which allows me to use a much simpler/cleaner Symfony response subscriber

tours instead of advanced help (fixes #1753174: Dependency for advanced_help module), which very often was ignored

there is nothing to configure for the SEO (duplicate content prevention) feature anymore

nor is there anything to configure for the Forever cacheable files feature anymore (named Far Future expiration in Drupal 7), and it's a lot more robust

removed

File Conveyor support

separate HTTPS mapping (also mentioned above)

all the exceptions (blacklist, whitelist, based on Drupal path, file path…) — all of them are a maintenance/debugging/cacheability nightmare

configurability of SEO feature

configurability of unique file identifiers for the Forever cacheable files feature

testing mode

Summary: 8.x-3.1

Contributors: (4) Wim Leers, hitfactory, bradjones1, Berdir

Issues: 8 issues resolved.

Changes since 8.x-3.0:

Bug

#2870903 by bradjones1: Fix regex in CdnIntegrationTest.php

Feature

#2874594 by Wim Leers: Support for rel="preconnect"
#2838309 by Wim Leers: Make "Forever cacheable files" use `Cache-Control: immutable`

Task

#2874178 by Wim Leers: Update README to warn that when using Amazon CloudFront, query forwarding must be enabled
#2891162 by Wim Leers: Refactor: extract logic from FileUrlGenerator::generate() into a new ::getCdnDomain() method
#2855855 by Wim Leers, hitfactory: Notice: Undefined index: preprocess in cdn_file_url_alter()
#2871588 by Wim Leers: Remove api doc groups for updates, because core did the same
#2843092 by Wim Leers, Berdir: Since recent DrupalCI update, CDN 8.x-3.x is failing: CDN module's update path test assumes it's installed in /modules