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This release adds Drupal 10 compatibility and drops support for Drupal 8. It also drops the Drupal 8 to 9 upgrade test that was part of the alpha to beta upgrade.
This release has been tested on Drupal 9.4 and higher.
The stable release is 8.x-1.0. However, this release will no longer receive any development or bugfixes, only support for configuration questions. The 8.x-1.x branch is closed. Current development is in the 2.x branch, and the next release will be 2.0.0 from that branch.
This release includes some bug fixes and better handles installation of the module on an existing site.
New features
This alpha introduces a new setting, 'Deny access to unassigned content'.
In previous versions, content not assigned to a section was ignored. With this new setting enabled, content not assigned to a section will return an access denied for all editors.
The setting is off by default.
A module update is provided to enable the new setting.
Alpha 4 introduces a number of code-level improvements, spearheaded by lawowlan and acbramley.
Notably, we've split data storage for users and roles into services, which lets us be more consistent in the API. In the future, it will also mean that we can swap out the storage system.
The only user-facing change is that Workbench Access rules now apply on node creation. If the node type is under access control, a user must have access to at least one section in order to create content.
Major functional improvements. The biggest of which is the ability to use native fields for Taxonomy and Menu instead of using a special field for Workbench Access.
Feature #1297514: Setting a default section by philipz, amateescu, thekevinday, itaine, pozdneev, Taxoman, Sheldon Rampton, Dave Reid. Provide support for using default taxonomy forms for access controls.
This release expands the use of the permission "Allow all members of this role to be assigned to Workbench Access sections." Now an individual user must have a role with this permission to be assigned sections.