The architecture of Patterns has been extended in a new major release (7.x-2.x) and due to these big changes backwards compatibility with Patterns created with versions 7.x-1.x is not supported (some Patterns might be marked as non syntactically valid). Further details for the changes in the syntax and the status of the automatic extraction can be found in the Tour of the components section.

Syntactic and semantic validation

The new version of Patterns allows the components to implement two separated layers of syntactic and semantic validation, providing a very valuable feedback to the user that is going to run a pattern in case it is necessary to solve any possible conflicts.

Improvement of the export functions and components extension

Patterns 7.x-2.x includes a set of enhancements to export automatically the configuration of a site. All the main components possess now automatic export capabilities, and depending on the type of component new options to export it are offered.

Custom functions as action handlers