Talking Drupal #430 - Drupal in 2024

Today we are talking about Drupal in 2024, What we are looking
forward to with Drupal 11, and the Drupal Advent Calendar with
James Shields. We’ll also cover Drupal 10.2 as our module of the
week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/430
Topics

Advent calendar

Selection process

Popularity

Next year

Drupal features in 2024

Drupal 11

Project browser

Recipes / Starter templates

Automated updates

Gitlab

Smaller core



Predictions

Resources

Drupal Advent Calendar

A Plan for Drupal 11

Drupal 10.2 announcement

Change Records for 10.2.0

https://www.drupal.org/node/3395582

https://www.drupal.org/node/3395575

https://www.drupal.org/node/3369935



Dev Days

Guests

James Shields - lostcarpark.com lostcarpark
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu
Drupal 10.2


Improvements include

Technology Updates

PHP 8.3

Includes capabilities that previously required
contrib projects

File name sanitization

A search filter on the permissions page



End Users

Performance enhancements and improved caching APIs

Support for PHP Fibers to accelerate handling things
like asynchronous remote calls



Content Creators

Revision UI for media

Wider editing area in Claro on large screens

The return of “Show blocks” in CKEditor 5, missing
until now



Site Builders

Field creation UI has a new, more visual interface,
and an updated workflow

Block visibility can now be based on the HTTP
response status, for example to make it visible or
invisible on 404 or 403 responses

Tour module is no longer enabled by default for the
Standard and Umami profiles

New “negated regular expression” operator for views
filters (string/integer), to exclude results matching a
provided pattern



Site Owners

Announcements Feed is now stable and included in the
Standard profile

The functionality in the experimental Help Topics
module has been merged into the main Help module, so the
Help Topics module is now deprecated

New permission: Use help pages



Developers

A fairly sizable change is a move to use native PHP
attributes instead of doctrine annotations to declare
metadata for plugin classes. Work is already underway to
get core code converted, and an issue has been opened to
have rector do this conversion for contrib projects

A new DeprecationHelper::backwardsCompatibleCall()
method to help write Drupal extensions that support
multiple versions of core

A PerformanceTestBase is now in core, to support
automated testing of performance metrics

A new #config_target property in ConfigFormBase to
simplify creating configuration forms

Symfony mailer is now a composer dependency of core

New decimal primitive data type

Expanded configuration validation, Symfony autowiring
support, HTML5 output from the HTML utility class is now
default, and more

In addition to these and the features highlighted in
the official announcement, there are three pages of
change records for the 10.2.0 release, and we’ll include
a link to those in the show notes