Drupal 6.15 and 5.21 released
The fifteenth maintenance and security release of the Drupal 6 series. Only fixes for security vulnerabilities and other bugs have been committed. New features are only being added to the forthcoming Drupal 7.0 release.
This release fixes security vulnerabilities. Sites are urged to upgrade immediately after reading the security announcement:
SA-CORE-2009-009 - Drupal Core - Cross site scripting
In addition to this security vulnerability, the following bugs have been fixed since the 6.14 release:
Getting taxonomy tags id from the node - the WRONG way
$node_taxonomy = taxonomy_link('taxonomy terms', $node);
foreach ($node_taxonomy as $value) {
$id = substr($value['href'],14);
}DrupalCon coming to San Francisco in 2010
Good news folks, next DrupalCon will be in San Francisco, CA, in the heart of technology. It is far from Paris of course, but i think it will be a very nice way of spending your money and meet one of the friendliest community in the Open Source world.
For more info you can visit site: DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
Michael Jackson using Drupal
MichaelJackson.com, the official site for fans of the King of Pop, has just re-launched, featuring some new community-oriented features and some old-school graphics from back in the day. MichaelJackson.com was built using Drupal by the good folks at Sony Music. They are also using Mollom to protect against comment and forum post spam.
Drupal 6.10 and 5.16 released
Drupal 6.10 and 5.16, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as a critical security vulnerability, are now available for download.
Drupal 5.16 and 6.10 were released in response to the discovery of a security vulnerability. Details can be found in the official security advisories:
Getting field settings from CCK
Sometimes when you want to replicate cck field way of work you need to get the settings from the required field. The main function you need is _content_type_info(). It will return array with all of the content types info, so you can get the general field settings or field settings per content type. Just do: dsm(_content_type_info()) and examine output properly.
If you know what field in what node type you're looking for then you can just use:
DrupalCon is coming to Paris!
DrupalCon is coming to Paris! Great!
You can read more details on Drupal.org: http://drupal.org/node/374199
Join the group on groups.drupal.org to discuss about it: DrupalCon Paris 2009
And of course, twitter: @dcparis2009
Drupal 6.9 and 5.15 released
Drupal 6.9 and Drupal 5.15, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Read more to find out about security vulnerabilities found there.
Acquia updates its Drupal distribution to 1.1.0-ISR
There is a new release of 1.1.0-ISR Acquia Drupal. This release incorporates not only security updates and bug fixes, but adds several new features.
* Drupal updated to 6.8.
* Acquia Drupal can be downloaded in ZIP format.
* Google Analytics updated to 6.x-1.3
* Imagefield updated to 6.x-3.x-dev
* Image API updated to 6.x-1.x-dev
* Voting API updated to 6.x-1.0-RC2
* Acquia Marina theme updated to 6.x-1.3
* Added Link 6.x-2.5. http://drupal.org/project/link
