feeds 8.x-3.0-alpha4

This release contains some small bug fixes and one new feature: for timestamp targets (like 'Authored on' and 'created') date strings are now accepted as source (previously it only accepted integers).

A small improvement has been made for users who want to perform imports with limited privileges: there will be less validation errors because of limited permissions. See #2708693: Validation failure for body text filter format due to lack of permission.

Next release

In the next release we like to get #2799225: The "hidden" plugin does not exist: Drupal\Component\Plugin\Exception\PluginNotFoundException: in and we're aiming to get some multilingual support in, even if it would only cover a small subset of use cases. See #2867761: Multilingual support.
The next release is planned for March 2019. See also #2997770: Plan for 8.x-3.0-alpha7 release.

Contributors (14)

thalles, MegaChriz, rovo, KarlShea, mitrpaka, irinaz, riddhi.addweb, osab, mikran, alphawebgroup, Spanxya, bisonbleu, joelpittet, Vj

Changelog

Issues: 13 issues resolved.

Changes since 8.x-3.0-alpha3:

Bug

• #3018729 by mitrpaka: Fixed 'Site default' timezone selection in date targets ignored while preparing a date value.
• #2998781 by MegaChriz, mikran: Fixed saving settings for the feed form of the CSV parser.
• #2708693 by MegaChriz, alphawebgroup, Spanxya: Fixed validation failure for body text filter format due to lack of permission.
• #3006920 by mikran: Fixed CSV Parser fails to parse last quoted field of last row.
• #2975829 by joelpittet: Fixed Notice: Undefined index: feeds_item_option in Drupal\feeds\Feeds\Target\EntityReference->buildConfigurationForm().
• #2998359 by Vj: Fixed processor name in option list on feed type edit form gets double escaped ('&' gets converted to '&').

Feature

• #3008190 by irinaz, riddhi.addweb: Changed fetcher labels to make them more clear in the UI.
• #2969197 by MegaChriz, bisonbleu: Allow date strings as source for timestamp targets (like 'Authored on' and 'created').

Task

• #3021269 by MegaChriz, rovo: Added test coverage for importing CSV files with non machine name column names.
• #3021251 by thalles, MegaChriz: Fixed use dependency injection in FeedTypeForm.
• #3020920 by thalles, MegaChriz: Fixed use dependency injection in Controller/ItemListController.
• #3021264 by thalles: Fixed use $this->t() on FeedForm.
• #3021003 by thalles: Fixed use $this->t() in EventSubscriber/PubSubHubbub.php.

Missing features

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.
The most notable missing features are:

• #2867761: Multilingual support
• #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