News and announcements

The Drupal project has released version 4.6.2 of its open-source content management platform. Drupal 4.6.2 is a maintenance release that provides corrections of problems reported using the bug tracking system. Drupal 4.6.2 also fixes two security vulnerabilities: one related to the use of Drupal's input filters and one in the XML-RPC library that Drupal ships with. Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is highly recommended. As the same bugs are also present in the Drupal 4.5 series, Drupal 4.5.4 is released as well.

There are no new features in these installments. For more information about the Drupal 4.6.x release series, please consult the Drupal 4.6.0 release announcement.

Look forward to an announcement next week about our Google Summer of Code students who will be working with us. We're very fortunate that Google has generously sponsored eleven (11) SoC stipends. As you can imagine, this means a lot of coding will get done this summer!

Update: See PlanetSoC for the latest news and progress on Summer of Code projects.

List of winners and projects (with mentor listed):

I compiled a list of this month's top-20 most downloaded themes and modules. It doesn't necessarily mean that these projects are the top-20 most used projects, but it does give a good indication of what people are looking for, or what sparks their interest. I'm sure we can draw a number of valuable conclusions from this list. Anyway, without further ado, here is the list of the top-20 projects ...

Myself and the rest of the Vancouver Bryght crew are at Gnomedex 2005. I was very excited by the news that Dave Winer's new tool, an OPML editor, is going to be released under the GPL. I'm hoping that the Drupal community can do some exciting work with Dave, and have Drupal be a great server component to his desktop tool.

Microsoft also had some announcements. They're building RSS into lots of different areas in Longhorn, the next version of Windows, and demo'd IE7 with RSS built in. As well, James Walker is actually in progress adding vCal entries as enclosures to the events module -- this will generate a format that will work with Longhorn automatically, and Drupal will have it ready to go just days after this major announcement.