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Florian Lorétan, one of co-leads for DrupalCon Munich, takes a moment to discuss what is happening with the upcoming conference and what people can expect. He introduces the overall theme "Open Up! Connecting Systems and People" and explains what it means, how it will tie in to the sessions, and why it's important.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: May 10, 2012 - 3:00pm Album: Drupal Voices Length: 5:12 minutes (3.61 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Florian Lorétan, one of co-leads for DrupalCon Munich, takes a moment to discuss what is happening with the upcoming conference and what people can expect. He introduces the overall theme "Open Up! Connecting Systems and People" and explains what it means, how it will tie in to the sessions, and why it's important.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: May 10, 2012 - 3:00pm Album: Drupal Voices Length: 5:12 minutes (3.61 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Kyle Hofmeyer talks with Nathan Haug of Lullabot about Webform.com. Nathan discusses how and why the site evolved from a Drupal module into a full-blown product, as well as the unique features and benefits of this survey tool.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: May 9, 2012 - 10:00am Album: Drupal Voices Length: 5:58 minutes (4.14 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Kyle Hofmeyer talks with Nathan Haug of Lullabot about Webform.com. Nathan discusses how and why the site evolved from a Drupal module into a full-blown product, as well as the unique features and benefits of this survey tool.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: May 9, 2012 - 10:00am Album: Drupal Voices Length: 5:58 minutes (4.14 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Drupal.org and its sub-sites (api.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, etc) will be going down for 20 minutes Monday, May 7, 5:00 PDT (May 8, 00:00 UTC). This maintenance window will be used to upgrade our single sign on system. Please follow the @drupal_infra twitter account for updates during the downtime and thanks for your patience!

Sites will remain functional for the majority of the scheduled downtime, but everyone will be logged out. You may not be able to log into sub-sites for a few minutes as the update is rolled out.

Kris Vanderwater talks about the Drupal 8 Initiative Blocks & Layouts Everywhere. Kris gives a brief overview of what this is and explains how he is working on the usability side, bringing together designers and javascript experts to ensure this will be a great experience for all users. Kris goes so far as to refer to it as "Panels in Core" and is looking for contributors, so if that strikes your fancy, take a listen to what Kris has to say.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: May 3, 2012 - 10:00am Album: Lullabot Podcast Length: 8:00 minutes (5.56 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Kris Vanderwater talks about the Drupal 8 Initiative Blocks & Layouts Everywhere. Kris gives a brief overview of what this is and explains how he is working on the usability side, bringing together designers and javascript experts to ensure this will be a great experience for all users. Kris goes so far as to refer to it as "Panels in Core" and is looking for contributors, so if that strikes your fancy, take a listen to what Kris has to say.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: May 3, 2012 - 10:00am Album: Lullabot Podcast Length: 8:00 minutes (5.56 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Drupal 7.14 is now available, which contains bug fixes as well as fixes for security vulnerabilities from Drupal 7.13.

Drupal 6.26, which fixes known bugs (no security issues) is also available for download.

Download Drupal 7.14
Download Drupal 6.26

Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement, more information on the 6.x releases can be found in the Drupal 6.0 release announcement. Drupal 5 is no longer maintained, upgrading to Drupal 7 is recommended.

Security information

We have a security announcement mailing list, a history of all security advisories, and an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories. We strongly advise Drupal administrators to sign up for the list.

Drupal 7 and 6 include the built-in Update status module, which informs you about important updates to your modules and themes.

Bug reports

Both Drupal 7.x and 6.x branches are being maintained, so given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports) more maintenance releases will be made available, according to our monthly release cycle.

Changelog

Drupal 7.13 only includes fixes for security issues. Drupal 7.14 also includes bugfixes. The full list of changes between the 7.12 and 7.14 releases can be found by reading the 7.14 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable 7.x branch can be found in the git commit log.

Drupal 6.26 only includes bugfixes.

Security vulnerabilities

Drupal 7.13 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory:

• SA-CORE-2012-002

To fix the security problems, please upgrade to Drupal 7.13.

What is included with each release?

We made two versions of Drupal 7 available, so you can choose to only include security fixes (Drupal 7.13) or security fixes and bugfixes (Drupal 7.14). You can choose your preferred version. We are trying to make it easier and quicker to roll out security updates by making security-only releases available as well as ones with bugfixes included. We hope this helps you roll out the fixes as soon as possible. Read more details in the handbook.

Known issues

None at this time.

Joe Shindelar joins Kyle Hofmeyer for a chat with Drew Gorton from Gorton Studios. Drew talks about NodeSquirrel, a remote backup solution for Drupal built off the Backup and Migrate module. Drew also talks about what excites him about the future of Drupal.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: May 1, 2012 - 10:00am Album: Lullabot Podcast Length: 4:07 minutes (2.85 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 96Kbps (vbr)

Joe Shindelar joins Kyle Hofmeyer for a chat with Drew Gorton from Gorton Studios. Drew talks about NodeSquirrel, a remote backup solution for Drupal built off the Backup and Migrate module. Drew also talks about what excites him about the future of Drupal.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: May 1, 2012 - 10:00am Album: Lullabot Podcast Length: 4:07 minutes (2.85 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 96Kbps (vbr)

The call for papers is still open for DrupalCon Munich -- but only until May 11!  Trainings too! The DrupalCon content team is looking for sessions that cover pushing the boundaries of Drupal and its increasing use as a cross platform system. Help shape what is presented at DrupalCon with this year's theme, "Open Up! Connecting systems and people."

Any proposals for sessions should fit within one of the following tracks:

• Coding and Development
• Community
• Design and Theming
• Business and Strategy
• Site building
• DevOps

To learn more about each topic, view the Session Track page. Here you can find out the anticipated audience and the topic focus, as set forward by each track chair. Selected Sessions and Trainings will be announced May 29.

Curious to learn how sessions are selected at DrupalCon? Learn more about the session selection process.

Core conversations will open for submissions on May 29, read more about Core Conversations on our website.

We are also inviting all organizations with training experience to submit proposals for the Pre-Conference Trainings, to be held on Monday, 20th August 2012.

Open Up - submit your session before May 11!  We look forward to seeing you in Munich August 20-24. Join the Drupal community in Europe this summer and register now for early-bird pricing.

We are thrilled to announce that Google will be sponsoring 13 Drupal projects for Summer of Code 2012. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Google, who are investing over $72,000 in the Drupal project.

As always, we had many more projects that we would have liked to accept than we were able to. The mentoring team deliberated fiercely over the past two weeks, and arrived at the final acceptance list.

Drupal will benefit from microdata support for contrib field types, help topic module for documentation team, sales reports integration for drupal commerce, materialization plugin support for views, search api statistics etc.

If you would like to keep up to date on Summer of Code happenings, would like to volunteer to help test students' projects, and/or would like to help students as they find their way in our community, please join the SoC 2012 working group and help out in whatever ways you can.

Here's to another great summer! :)

Application Student Mentors Auto Tagging Articles using Semantic Analysis/ Topic Modelling Arjun Kapur Matt Chapman Enhancing Feedback module (D7) Manu Chaudhary Alex Weber Enhancing Secure Code Review Module Udit Jaggi Michael Hess Extend microdata support to contrib field types Anca Dumitrache Lin Clark Help Topic module for the Drupal Documentation Team and for the help system temaruk Jennifer Hodgdon Improving RESTful Web Services Sebastian (sepgil) klausi Materialization Plugin for Views Dhruv Baldawa Janez Urevc Phone / SMS / VoIP integration with Drupal Commons nitech Leo Burd Port Og_panels to D7 and Improve Message notify to make it the source of email notifications sanjay rohila ezra-g Preparing Menu Block Module for Drupal 8 Core Chad Whitman Dave Reid and John Albin Wilkins Sales Reports for Drupal Commerce Christophe Van Gysel Daniel Wehner Search API Statistics Michael Timofejev Thomas Seidl Translation Management Tools Server Sebastian Siemssen Miro Dietiker

Kyle Hofmeyer talks with John Albin Wilkins about the Mobile Initiative he is spearheading for Drupal 8. John discusses what this means, what's involved, and how you can help.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: April 24, 2012 - 4:00pm Album: Lullabot Podcast Length: 7:07 minutes (4.94 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Kyle Hofmeyer talks with John Albin Wilkins about the Mobile Initiative he is spearheading for Drupal 8. John discusses what this means, what's involved, and how you can help.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: April 24, 2012 - 4:00pm Album: Lullabot Podcast Length: 7:07 minutes (4.94 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Kyle Hofmeyer talks with Greg Dunlap about the Configuration Management Initiative he is spearheading for Drupal 8. Greg dives right in and discusses how, up to this point, Drupal has seriously lacked a proper method for code and development deployment. He gets into some of the nitty gritty of what he is up to and how he is solving the problem. Now that Greg has created a central API, he is looking forwarding to putting some focus on getting a proper content staging process into Drupal.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: April 19, 2012 - 11:00am Album: Lullabot Podcast Length: 6:19 minutes (4.39 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Kyle Hofmeyer talks with Greg Dunlap about the Configuration Management Initiative he is spearheading for Drupal 8. Greg dives right in and discusses how, up to this point, Drupal has seriously lacked a proper method for code and development deployment. He gets into some of the nitty gritty of what he is up to and how he is solving the problem. Now that Greg has created a central API, he is looking forwarding to putting some focus on getting a proper content staging process into Drupal.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: April 19, 2012 - 11:00am Album: Lullabot Podcast Length: 6:19 minutes (4.39 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 97Kbps (vbr)

Kyle Hofmeyer talks with Bob Kepford who discusses his newsletter, The Weekly Drop. If you're looking for a curated list of the best Drupal news delivered to your inbox every Thursday, subscribe today.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: April 17, 2012 - 11:00am Album: Drupal Voices Length: 1:33 minutes (1.08 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 96Kbps (vbr)

Kyle Hofmeyer talks with Bob Kepford who discusses his newsletter, The Weekly Drop. If you're looking for a curated list of the best Drupal news delivered to your inbox every Thursday, subscribe today.

This Drupal Voices was recorded at the 2012 DrupalCon in Denver.

Release Date: April 17, 2012 - 11:00am Album: Drupal Voices Length: 1:33 minutes (1.08 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 96Kbps (vbr)

Drupal.org and its sub-sites (api.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, git.drupal.org, etc) will be going down for 45 minutes Thursday, April 19, 5:00 PDT (April 20 00:00 UTC). This maintenance window will be used to upgrade our backend media servers. Please follow the @drupal_infra twitter account for updates during the downtime and thanks for your patience!

NOTE: During this downtime window, we will also disable access to the git repositories via SSH. The git:// protocol will still be functional.

Back in 2009, Groups.Drupal.Org (GDO) went through a major transition including upgrading from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, a redesign, and adding new maintainers. We are currently in the process of a similar transition. The site has already gone through a redesign, and as we make plans to transition to Drupal 7, we will also be moving to new maintainers for the next year.

Making it easier to contribute to GDO

Between the Drupal Association’s initiative to improve *.drupal.org, the community brainstorming on site improvements, and feature requests in the Groups.Drupal.Org issue queue, there is clearly a lot of interest in making improvements to GDO. However, for folks who want to roll up their sleeves and help by filing a patch, the path to replicating GDO for development purposes hasn’t always been clear. As a strategy for making it easier for anyone in the Drupal community to file a patch and streamlining maintenance efforts for the site, we have proposed that GDO will run the Commons distribution of Drupal for Drupal 7. Of course, this means that improvements made to GDO benefit sites powered by Drupal Commons and vice-versa, that generic improvements to Commons will benefit GDO.

New maintainers: Meet Ezra, Scott, and Justin

Helping with this transition, Ezra Gildesgame (ezra-g), maintainer of Drupal Commons, is also now a maintainer of groups.drupal.org. Ezra is the technical lead for Drupal distributions at Acquia, has been contributing to Drupal for over 5 years, and also maintains the Conference Organizing Distribution (COD).

Our other new Groups.Drupal.Org maintainers are Scott Reynen (sreynen) and Justin Toupin (justin2pin) from Aten Design Group. Scott is Lead Developer at Aten and has been contributing to Drupal for over 5 years, including helping to organize the Denver group on GDO. Justin Toupin is CEO at Aten, and has been leading the organization’s involvement in Drupal since version 4.7.

Getting involved: How you can make GDO better

This process of upgrading Groups.Drupal.Org is an especially good time to get involved by joining a few different groups and queues:

• Commons related are the Commons group, and the Commons issue queue for bugs/ideas that affect all Commons sites.
• The GDO issue queue is for features and tasks specific to Groups.Drupal.Org.
• Groups to discuss the site: http://groups.drupal.org/maintenance and http://groups.drupal.org/groups-drupal-org

Note that Ezra, Scott, and Justin have agreed to work on the site for at least a year. If you think you might want to take over in a year, the best way to do that is to get involved working on the site in these issue queues.

Thanks, Greg & Josh!

This is also a great opportunity to thank Greg Knaddison (greggles) and Josh Koenig for their help maintaining Groups.Drupal.Org over the past few years. Josh and Greg found they were too busy with other projects unrelated to community site building which made it harder to find time for GDO (Josh building Pantheon and Greg working with Acquia’s Profesional Services Security Group and the Drupal Security Team). Greg and Josh hope that transitioning to people who spend more of their lives working on community sites will help GDO be an even more valuable collaboration platform for our community.