feeds 8.x-3.0-alpha1

The first alpha release for Feeds 8.x-3.x is finally here!

This release is usable for basic use cases. Importing from CSV, RSS feeds, OPML and Sitemap XML is possible. Supported target entity types are node, user and taxonomy term.

Recent additions are:

• An UI for the CSV parser
  #2669974: Implement the CSV parser UI
• Unpublish/delete entities not included in feed
  #2939503: Unpublish/Delete nodes not included in feed
• Kernel, functional and functional javascript automated tests

This being an alpha release means that not all features from the D7 version of Feeds have been ported yet. You may also run into some bugs.

Missing features

The most notable missing features are:

• #2867761: Multilingual support
• An UI for edit/remove custom sources: #2938505: Add UI for editing and removing custom (CSV) sources
• Drush commands
• Feeds import preview
• An option to only update existing items (not creating new items)
• Targets for several field types: language, media field, path alias, user password, user roles

Known issues

There are some issues which could lead to errors that are less easy to recover from. These are:

• #2803057: Expire feature deletes all imported items
• #2772595: When mapping to File or Image fields, empty source for target_id causes Exception and breaks import process.
• #2854914: Deleted Target Field Throws Fatal Error

To avoid these, do not use the "Expire" feature, do not delete fields that are used in mapping and do not import empty values for file targets.