Acquia offers a purpose-built Drupal hosting solution that lets you focus on the most important part – your users.

As you may know, Drupal 6 has reached End-of-Life (EOL) which means the Drupal Security Team is no longer doing Security Advisories or working on security patches for Drupal 6 core or contrib modules - but the Drupal 6 LTS vendors are and we're one of them!

Today, there is a Moderately Critical security release for Drupal core to fix a vulnerability in jQuery. You can learn more in the security advisory:

Drupal core - Moderately Critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CORE-2020-002

Here you can download the Drupal 6 patch to fix, or a full release ZIP or TAR.GZ.

If you have a Drupal 6 site, we recommend you update immediately! We have already deployed the patch for all of our Drupal 6 Long-Term Support clients. :-)

FYI, there was another Drupal core security release made today (SA-CORE-2020-003) but that one doesn't affect Drupal 6.

If you'd like all your Drupal 6 modules to receive security updates and have the fixes deployed the same day they're released, please check out our D6LTS plans.

Note: if you use the myDropWizard module (totally free!), you'll be alerted to these and any future security updates, and will be able to use drush to install them (even though they won't necessarily have a release on Drupal.org).

It is easy to forget that your website or application is quite fundamentally the result of a software ecosystem. In the simplest case, a developer uses an IDE to code HTML, CSS, and these days possibly JavaScript. They presumably use a tool to upload the result to a web server, and ultimately the web server serves your website to your audience's web browser.   

Project: Drupal coreDate: 2020-May-20Security risk: Moderately critical 10∕25 AC:Basic/A:None/CI:None/II:None/E:Theoretical/TD:AllVulnerability: Open RedirectDescription: 

Drupal 7 has an Open Redirect vulnerability. For example, a user could be tricked into visiting a specially crafted link which would redirect them to an arbitrary external URL.

The vulnerability is caused by insufficient validation of the destination query parameter in the drupal_goto() function.

Other versions of Drupal core are not vulnerable.

Solution: 

Install the latest version:

• If you use Drupal 7.x upgrade to Drupal 7.70

Reported By: 

• vortfu

Fixed By: 

• Drew Webber of the Drupal Security Team
• Fabian Franz
• David Snopek of the Drupal Security Team
• vortfu

Project: Drupal coreDate: 2020-May-20Security risk: Moderately critical 10∕25 AC:Complex/A:Admin/CI:Some/II:Some/E:Theoretical/TD:UncommonVulnerability: Cross Site ScriptingDescription: 

The jQuery project released version 3.5.0, and as part of that, disclosed two security vulnerabilities that affect all prior versions. As mentioned in the jQuery blog, both are

[...] security issues in jQuery’s DOM manipulation methods, as in .html(), .append(), and the others. Security advisories for both of these issues have been published on GitHub.

Those advisories are:

• CVE-2020-11022
• CVE-2020-11023

These vulnerabilities may be exploitable on some Drupal sites. This Drupal security release backports the fixes to the relevant jQuery functions, without making any other changes to the jQuery version that is included in Drupal core or running on the site via some other module such as jQuery Update. It is not necessary to update jquery_update on Drupal 7 sites that have the module installed.

Backwards-compatibility code has also been added to minimize regressions to Drupal sites that might rely on jQuery's prior behavior. With jQuery 3.5, incorrect self-closing HTML tags in JavaScript for elements where end tags are normally required will encounter a change in what jQuery returns or inserts. To minimize that disruption in 8.8.x and earlier, this security release retains jQuery's prior behavior for most safe tags. There may still be regressions for edge cases, including invalidly self-closed custom elements on Internet Explorer.

(Note: the backwards compatibility layer will not be included in the upcoming Drupal 8.9 and 9.0 releases, so Drupal 8 and 9 modules, themes, and sites should correct tags in JavaScript to properly use closing tags.)

If you find a regression caused by the jQuery changes, please report it in Drupal core's issue queue (or that of the relevant contrib project). However, if you believe you have found a security issue, please report it privately to the Drupal Security Team.

Solution: 

Install the latest version:

• If you are using Drupal 8.8, upgrade to Drupal 8.8.6.
• If you are using Drupal 8.7, upgrade to Drupal 8.7.14.
• If you are using Drupal 7, upgrade to Drupal 7.70.

Versions of Drupal 8 prior to 8.7 are end-of-life and do not receive security coverage. Sites on 8.6 or earlier should update to 8.7.14.

The pre-release Drupal versions (8.9 and 9.0) have been updated jQuery to version 3.5.1 as of 8.9.0-beta3 and 9.0.0-beta3.

Reported By: 

• Drew Webber of the Drupal Security Team
• Emerson Jair Reis Oliveira da Silva

Fixed By: 

• Drew Webber of the Drupal Security Team
• Sally Young
• cilefen of the Drupal Security Team
• Jess of the Drupal Security Team
• Emerson Jair Reis Oliveira da Silva
• Lee Rowlands of the Drupal Security Team
• Alex Bronstein of the Drupal Security Team
• Ben Mullins
• Lauri Eskola
• Peter Weber
• Samuel Mortenson of the Drupal Security Team

For every website, irrespective of the industry, a blog is a powerful magnet that attracts both visitors and search engines. In order to keep your website fresh, you need to regularly treat your audience to new and tasty content.

Among the tricks to increase blog engagement is to notify users about new posts. Let’s see how to set up content email notifications on a Drupal website.

Read more

Summary

Heather Rocker and Tim Lehnen discuss the multiple missions of the Drupal Association, turning DrupalCon Global 2020, and the upcoming Drupal 9 release.

Guest

Heather Rocker and Tim Lehnen of the Drupal Association

Continuing our short series of articles highlighting ways that the Drupal software and its community are building solutions to help combat the effect of COVID-19, today we hear from Peter Oroszvari of Cheppers. Here, he describes their project at the Mayor’s Office of the 15th District of Budapest, Hungary.

The coronavirus pandemic triggered a critical situation in Hungary that forced local government authorities to move fast in the digitalization of services. Cheppers, a Drupal-focused development company has already been working with local governments on e-government solutions, supporting authorities in their digital transformation. 

As the Hungarian government ordered restrictions on free movement in March 2020, organizing care for the elderly and persons in need became the responsibility of local authorities. The Mayor’s Office of Budapest’s 15th District called upon Cheppers to build a mobile application and website that serves as a platform for locals in difficult situations to ask for help from the Mayor’s Office, while supporting the Office in tracking requests filed through various platforms. A Drupal-based solution seemed fitting for three reasons:

• A Drupal-based backend simultaneously provides content for various end points while operating as a suitable platform to store incoming requests. 
• Compliance with personal data security measures is a key requirement in the public sector. As Drupal conforms to the OWASP standards, its application guarantees the prevention of hazards to citizens’ personal data. 
• Fast response to the challenges triggered by the pandemic was essential. Thus speed was one of the main reasons we built the Covid Helper tool in Drupal: the website and the first version of the mobile app was ready in less than 3 weeks using Drupal Contribution and core functionalities. 

Covid Helper registered more than 100 requests and 1000 visitors per day right after its release. As the pandemic evolved, the District Mayor’s Office came back with a demand for extended functionalities: version 2 allows for the registration of volunteer helpers, reducing pressure on the District Mayor’s Office. 

Due to the severe economic crisis triggered by the pandemic, many of the requests registered on the platform were applications for financial aid. This induced the digitalization of the financial aid application process in the District, which will be also available through the Covid Helper website. 

The District Mayor’s Office issued a marketing campaign informing citizens about the Covid Helper tool on city billboards and through an animated video.

Besides all the challenges, covid-19 does seem to have kicked off the digitalization process at government authorities and public services. Tools developed to solve the current situation may be the source of best practices to create an effective e-government system in the near future. 
 

Cohesion - a low code enterprise-grade, Drupal website building platform. Body

Drupal has witnessed a healthy growth over these years, with ample scope to expedite this growth. One way to achieve this is via a tool that makes the site creator’s life easy. A CMS platform should invariably be extremely user friendly and easy in maintaining as well as building. The wait is over! Cohesion DX8 is a site builder tool which allows a site maintainer/site configurator to create/maintain the site with low coding and more configuration.

Benefits of Cohesion 

1. Low code 
2. Highly configurable
3. Easy maintainable
4. Easily modifiable 
5. Highly scalable
6. Component-based driven
7. Less developer dependent

Cohesion

Cohesion DX8 provides a contributed module and theme which needs to be installed in Drupal, quite similar to the way we install other modules and themes. However, to use this service, it is required to purchase a cohesion package that provides us with an API Key, Agency Key, Site ID, and an API Server URL which needs to be inserted in the Account Settings form.

Here are the settings and key features of Cohesion DX8:

1. Website Settings
2. Style Settings
3. Components
4. Templates

Cohesion DX8 provides an in-site configuration form which takes care of your branding requirements. You can add your own branding elements like fonts, colours, icons, grid settings, SCSS variables, etc. directly onto the site. And there is absolutely no need to make any changes in the theme folder as well as the theme settings. Doesn’t this sound cool! Your basic frontend settings would be handy to you and you can modify it directly from the site without asking for help from a developer.

Website Settings

Style Settings

It’s not over yet, with Cohesion DX8 you can create/modify styles of a site. Cohesion DX8 provides settings to update the base style or to create custom styles. 

And this is how the default preview and configuration pane looks like.

Now let’s understand what comes under Base styling and Custom styling

Base styling - Styling which is going to be consistent throughout the site, e.g., font-size of body. Font formatting of Headings, Style of a button, style of link, etc. Custom styling - Styling which will be different for each instance or as a variation of base style. E.g., Big button, Small button, Read More Link, Consistent layout related styles (Padding Top & Bottom Large, Padding Top & Bottom Small), Social icons theming, etc.

Let’s look at the example of CTA link styling.

• CTA style structure
  • Link styling
  • After pseudo-element styling
  • On hover pseudo-element styling
• Style properties required for CTA link and those properties are added in the config form through properties button on the top right corner of the styling pane
• Styling properties required for pseudo-element styling
• Styling properties required for pseudo-element after hover

Component Builder

Now let’s introduce the coolest feature of the Cohesion Dx8 -  a Component Builder. Cohesion Dx8 follows a complete component-based development approach. So, what is the component-based development approach? 

Cohesion Dx8 provides a list of elements. By using these elements even simple and complex components can be created and be made configurable by creating a component form. The amazing part is that everything can be built by mere drag and drop. Doesn’t it sound super user friendly?

Let’s look at an example of a Hero Component and figure out which elements could be part of this component?  Let’s create a list of elements(atoms).

• Hero Image
• Hero Title
• Hero Description
• CTA button

Let’s consider the below-displayed hero component that we are trying to achieve.

Based on the Hero component design, the hero component structure would look similar as described in the below image.

A component will be created which will have the above-mentioned elements. But what about styling? This is the real beauty of Cohesion Dx8. It allows us to create a base style as well as a custom style and those can be appended to the component. Doesn’t it sound fascinating?

Here would like to take you back to the styling part of the section where we have styled CTA link. Now, here in the above component CTA link element can directly assign the style which has been created under custom style. And as per image, styling can be appended to CTA Link element.

Layout

There are multiple ways to create different layouts. Here, with Cohesion DX8, the layout can be defined by a Layout Category component and also component dropzone element can be provided to add other components. 

Does it mean? Woah! Yes, it means nesting use of the component is also possible. I won’t provide the screenshot for this example right now.

Template

There are four main templates:

• Master Template
• Content Template
• Views Template
• Menu Template

The template names clearly state the use of each template, but, I am sure you must have some questions related to master templates. 

What will it hold? The thumb rule is, this template should be least modifiable, means, it should not be updated frequently. We can ensure this by using only consistent section/components/regions added to it.

I hope this blog was helpful to understand the basic outline of Cohesion Dx8. Stay tuned! We have an upcoming blog that will talk about the advanced usage of templates. 

Vidit Anjaria Wed, 05/20/2020 - 13:41

Migrating to Drupal 8: Introduction opdavies Wed, 20/05/2020 - 01:07

I recently finished porting this website from a static site generator to Drupal 8, meaning that this site has now been powered by three different major versions of Drupal (6, 7 and 8) as well as by two static site generators since it was first launched in early 2010.

The majority of the content was imported using migrations from JSON feeds that I created. This included:

• Blog tags
• Blog posts
• Talks
• Redirects

In some follow-up posts, I'll be looking at each migration separately, describing any issues and look at how it was used to import its respective content.

I'll update this post with the links to the follow-up posts, and they are also available from the blog series' page.

Tags drupal drupal-8 drupal-planet

Recently, someone asked me: "What's special about Drupal? And why do you contribute?" It didn't take me long to respond, "Drupal empowers people." Drupal has changed lives, allowing a global and diverse group of people to build websites, but also the products, communities, businesses, and organizations that rely on those websites.

There's Never Been a Better Time to Learn Drupal

When I see the spark of someone grasping what Drupal empowers them to do, it makes excited for them and proud to be part of an open source community where we get to work together to make these experiences happen. That's why I love giving back to the Drupal community. Almost every month, Evolving Web gives newcomers a taste of what Drupal can do at our free What is Drupal? intro course. It's one of the most important things we do to give back.

Over the last nine years, our team has trained thousands of Drupal users. We provide in-depth week-long courses and have trained everyone from students and freelancers with a curiosity for Drupal, to web agencies, universities, and corporations who are shifting thousands of websites to Drupal and onboarding their entire staff.

In recent months, we've seen that the desire to learn Drupal is stronger than ever. It's a great time for open source, and digital independence is really important when you don't know what the next year, or the next month, will look like.

Evolving Web's Scholarship Program  

A few weeks ago, we launched our Scholarship program to give organizations in need due to the COVID-19 crisis access to free training. Our goal is to help scholarship recipients build a solid technical foundation and the skills they need to build a solid future. Our training clients include the Canadian and US governments, Ivy League universities, and big corporations like Western Digital and Sabre. We want to offer the same level of quality and hands-on instruction to as many individuals and organizations as possible.   

So far, we've had a tremendous response and have been able to give away dozens of scholarships to our upcoming courses. Our Web Fundamentals course, which covers the building blocks of web development, is popular among those looking to switch to a more technical role within their organization, and for individuals who want to leap into a career in web development.

Suzanne, a member of the Drupal Association board, is always looking to grow the Drupal community.

We've also had great interest in our in-depth Drupal trainings. With the imminent release of Drupal 9, content editors, project managers, and web services teams need to upgrade their skills to better manage their projects, increase productivity, and improve communication. One of our most popular courses is our in-depth 5-day Drupal Training, which includes Site-Building and Architecture, Theming, and Module Development courses. This training teaches you how to build a Drupal website from top to bottom. We're excited to teach Drupal to our government, higher ed, and scholarship trainees this June 1-5.  

As more people learn about the importance of digital inclusivity, our Web Accessibility training helps them build accessibility standards into their Drupal design and development practices. This topic has never been more important as new web accessibility regulations that enforce these standards get rolled out.   

Free Resources

We're also supplementing these scholarships with free video tutorials on a wide range of web development topics, so people can learn on their own time. These tutorials include tips and tricks about web fundamentals and Drupal.   

Trevor, a developer and trainer, also teaches astronomy and makes Halloween costumes.

And for those who have little to no coding experience, we continue to offer our free What is Drupal? and HTML & CSS Basics trainings on a regular basis. These courses are designed to introduce newcomers to web development and get them started on their first projects in a welcoming and non-intimidating learning environment.

You can also subscribe to our Learn Drupal newsletter, which delivers actionable insights and tips from our trainers right into your inbox every month.  

Evolving Web is Here for You 

Our Scholarship program is here to help your organization with financial cut-backs due to COVID-19. And through our scholarships, we'll continue to build Drupal and web development expertise in the world. By sharing our knowledge, we want to prepare organizations and individuals for the future. 

And if you know of an organization that could benefit from a training scholarship, please invite them to apply!

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How amazing does it feel when you walk into a coffee shop and the barista greets you by name and asks if you’d like the usual? Or when you meet someone you haven’t seen in a long time and they ask about some obscure and specific hobby you once mentioned you had?

These personalized experiences give you the warm and fuzzies. You typically come away from those interactions a fan of the place or person. Heck, if someone were to criticize them, you’d speak up that that's not your experience. And you wouldn’t hesitate to recommend that place or person to others.

At an event a few years ago, I noticed someone who seemed a little hesitant. I introduced myself and invited them to join me at my table, and we chatted a little. We never spoke much after that. But on multiple occasions over the past few years, that person has given me a glowing reference when I came up in conversation. 

Personalization makes us feel valued and understood. And that's how you want your customers to feel. Because if they do, they will buy more and advocate for your brand.

Personalized Marketing Options to Consider

Broadly speaking, there are two ways to do web personalization: with real-time data or historical data.

Real-time data involves using location data to serve up a specific site, content, or offer. Here are a few examples:

• Using device type or operating system to either manage how content is displayed or make assumptions on product needs
• Using traffic source to tailor content (i.e., looking at when and what the user came from)
• Basing promotions on products or services that have proven popular with others

Historical data goes deeper. This involves presenting personalized content, products, or offers based on users' previous interactions. You could look at factors like:

• The number of orders they made
• Their average order size
• The total amount they spent
• The products they looked at
• The carts they abandoned
• The time that has elapsed since their last transaction and/or visit

The options are as vast as the data you have collected. But through segmentation and rules, you can greatly increase the user's odds of converting.

Why You Need to Tread Carefully

Many consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about privacy and data management. You need to ensure that the personalization you supply is helping them in making a conversion decision and not simply showing them how much you know about them.

For instance, your barista asking if you fancy trying the new mocha latte (because they knew you had recently bought one from another brand) is much less creepy than being greeted with, "I heard you’re now into chocolate, so try this new mocha latte." The difference is small, but crucial.

Choose the Right Tools

With the overwhelming array of personalization options, it's important to work with an experienced team that can help guide you. At Acro, we love Drupal, and it can do many entry personalization functions within its platform (much more than most content management systems).

However, if you need to get very sophisticated, then you need a third-party platform. We love Acquia Lift. For features, usability and support, it is unparalleled. If you would like a personalized introduction to Acquia, hit me up and I’ll set you up, personally. 

The Bottom Line

Global research and advisory firm Gartner stated that the three key takeaways on personalization are:

1. Consumers want to receive personalized help as they navigate the buying journey.
2. Focusing solely on personalized recognition is potentially detrimental to a company’s commercial objectives.
3. When it comes to help, consumers prioritize information, a simpler purchase process and saving time.1

Peronalization isn’t the ultimate goal. It’s another tool to achieve whatever your actual goal is, whether that be increased sales, increased order value, increased frequency or brand loyalty. Once you define what your goals are, you can explore if personalization will give the required ROI.

If you would like to have a conversation about your business goals and see if personalization is an appropriate tool for you, give me a call. And if not, if we ever meet out and about, you’re always welcome to sit at my table.

1 - Source: Gartner, "Maximize the Impact of Personalization,” April 2019

How to Integrate Drupal 8 with Bitly for URL shortening Neslee Canil Pinto 19 May, 2020 Top 10 best practices for designing a perfect UX for your mobile app

Bit.ly for Drupal 8 provides a rich API that other Drupal modules can use to access Bit.ly functionality. Today’s topic of discussion is on how we can integrate Bitly with Drupal 8 easily in just a few simple steps.

What are the first three reasons that come to your mind for shortening a URL? Here are mine –

• To make more space for content to be posted on micro-blogging sites such as Twitter
• To mask the original URL 
• To simply reduce the length of a super-long, ugly URL

Bitly has been out go-to URL shortening service for a long time now and we love its efficacy and speed. For those of you who haven’t stumbled upon Bitly yet, Bitly is a link management platform that offers products and services on link shortening and more. It allows you to shorten URLs for your websites. 

Getting Started- Bitly Integration with Drupal 8

Bitly allows for easy integration with your Drupal 8 website. Since there are no stable modules to integrate Bitly in Drupal 8, we will learn about how to call the Bitly API and create forms to integrate it. Here are some steps to get you started with it -

Step 1 – First, you need to create a Bitly account. Go to https://bitly.com/ and create an account. You need to login to your Bitly account once you have created the account.

You will then see your Dashboard page.

Step 2 - Next Click on top right side of the screen and go to ‘Profile Settings’

Go to Registered OAuth Applications -> Register New App -> Get Registration Code. 
It will send you an email for your mail id that you used to sign up.
 

Step 3 - Click on Complete Registration. It will take you to back to Bitly website where you have to add the below details -

And Save this OAUTH App. Once saved, a ‘CLIENT ID’ and ‘CLIENT SECRET’ key will be generated as shown below.

Step 4 - Next, go to your browser and enter this Url :
https://bitly.com/oauth/authorize?client_id={YOUR_CLIENT_ID}&redirect_uri={YOUR_WEBSITE-URL}
Once you hit this Url, it will redirect to {YOUR_WEBSITE_URL}?code={YOUR_CODE} . Copy this code and paste it somewhere safe so it's not lost.

Step 5 – Next, you have to use POSTMAN to call the API or you can use the CURL command also. Learn more about how the Postman tool can help you with API development and testing.

The method will be POST, Url is https://api-ssl.bitly.com/oauth/access_token and parameters will be client_id, client_secret, code, redirect_uri.

When you hit this API, it will return the following –

access_token=TOKEN&login=BITLY_LOGIN&apiKey=BITLY_API_KEY
access_token - The OAuth access token for specified user
login - The end-user’s Bitly username
apiKey - The application key which will be used
This login and apiKey values should be stored and can be integrate with your Drupal modules.

Implementing the integration

Now let us learn to create a custom form for integrating with Bitly as there is no stable module for this in Drupal 8.

bitlyForm.php
<?php
namespace Drupal\bitly\Form;
use Drupal\Core\Form\ConfigFormBase;
use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;
/**
* Class bitlyForm.
*
* @package Drupal\bitly\Form
*/
class bitlyForm extends ConfigFormBase {
 /**
  * {@inheritdoc}
  */
 protected function getEditableConfigNames() {
return ['bitly.shorten_url'];
}
 /**
  * {@inheritdoc}
  */
 public function getFormId() {
 return 'bitly_shorten_url_configuration_form';
 }
 /**
  * {@inheritdoc}
  */
 public function buildForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
  $config = $this->config('bitly.shorten_url');
   $form['configuration'] = [
     '#type' => 'fieldset',
     '#title' => $this->t('Configuration'),
   ];
   $form['configuration']['login_name'] = [
     '#type' => 'textfield',
     '#title' => $this->t('Login Name'),
     '#default_value' => $config->get('login_name'),
     '#required' => TRUE,
   ];
   $form['configuration']['app_key'] = [
     '#type' => 'textfield',
     '#title' => $this->t('Application Key'),
     '#default_value' => $config->get('app_key'),
     '#required' => TRUE,
   ];

   return parent::buildForm($form, $form_state);
 }
 /**
  * {@inheritdoc}
  */
 public function submitForm(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
   $this->config('bitly.shorten_url')
     ->set('login_name', trim($form_state->getValue('login_name')))
     ->set('app_key', trim($form_state->getValue('app_key')))
     ->save();
   parent::submitForm($form, $form_state);
 }
}

Add the Login name and Application Key that you have generated and stored previously.

Now, let’s create a function to integrate your Drupal website with Bitly.

/** * Generate Shorten Url. * * @param string $url * The url. * @param string $login * The login name. * @param string $appKey * The api key. * * @return string * Returns bitly url. */ public static function makeBitlyUrl($url, $login, $appKey) { // Create the URL. $bitly = ‘http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl=’. urlencode($url) . '&login=' . $login . '&apiKey=' . $appKey . '&format=xml'; // Get the url // could also use cURL here. $response = file_get_contents($bitly); // Xml. $xml = simplexml_load_string($response); return 'https://bit.ly/' . $xml->results->nodeKeyVal->hash;

Let’s now call the makeBitlyUrl function to generate the Bitly Url.

$config = \Drupal::config(‘bitly.shorten_url');

$bitlyUrl = (string) makeBitlyUrl('https://www.example.com', $config->get('login_name'), $config->get('app_key'));

You will now get the integrated Bitly Url in the $bitlyUrl variable.

Bitly is a great tool for shortening URLs in a jiffy. We hope this article on integrating Bitly with Drupal 8 proves helpful and you come back to us for more such interesting and resourceful articles. Specbee offers expert Drupal development services to help create compelling websites leveraging the best of Drupal. Contact us to know how we can help.

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Recently, while working on the codebase for this very site, I tried running composer update to upgrade from Drupal 8.8.4 to 8.8.5. Apparently I did this at just the wrong time, as there was an issue with Drupal's dependencies in 8.9.x-dev which caused it to be selected as the upgrade candidate, and the default drupal/core-recommended Composer setting was to allow dev stability, so my site got updated to 8.9.x-dev, which was a bit of a surprise.

"No worries," I thought, "I use git, so I'm protected!" A git reset later, then change my composer.json to use "minimum-stability": "stable", and all is well with the world, right?

Well, no. You see, the problem is Drupal 8.9.x changed from an abandoned package, zendframework/zend-diactoros, to a new package, laminas/laminas-diactoros, that replaces the abandoned package.

Jeff Geerling May 18, 2020

Recently, while working on the codebase for this very site, I tried running composer update to upgrade from Drupal 8.8.4 to 8.8.5. Apparently I did this at just the wrong time, as there was an issue with Drupal's dependencies in 8.9.x-dev which caused it to be selected as the upgrade candidate, and the default drupal/core-recommended Composer setting was to allow dev stability, so my site got updated to 8.9.x-dev, which was a bit of a surprise.

"No worries," I thought, "I use git, so I'm protected!" A git reset later, then change my composer.json to use "minimum-stability": "stable", and all is well with the world, right?

Well, no. You see, the problem is Drupal 8.9.x changed from an abandoned package, zendframework/zend-diactoros, to a new package, laminas/laminas-diactoros, that replaces the abandoned package.

This past Friday, the Olivero project reached a major milestone and tagged our first alpha release. You can download it on the Olivero project page. This release marks a point in time where the code is stable(ish!), looks good amazing, and is ready for additional testing!