Drupal 7 - Upcoming Features

Highlights in Drupal 7
Drupal release policy
What is in D7 already
What is being worked on
Get involved!

Drupal release policy
“Everyone considering Drupal should understand that Drupal development is always about improvement and staying on the cutting edge.”
Dries: “... it was decided that we can break people's code, but not peoples data.”
“There is ALWAYS a path for updating your site with Drupal core”

What's already in HEAD
Testing framework with 100% pass rate
Database The New Generation
WYSIWYG editor support
Code registry
File are first class objects, a.k.a hook_file_*
Better handling of exceptions
Getting rid of $op from the hooks API

Testing framework
Integrated with core as SimpleTest module
All new code should have coverage
All new code should not break existing tests
More confidence in refactoring
UI improvements to come
Test-side error reporting to come

DBTNG
PDO-based db layer
Better support for Postgresql
Query builder in core
Still base porting to be done
hook_query_alter goodness to come

WYSIWYG editor support
Much better support for WYSIWYG editors
Textarea fields now support a #format field
A sexy input format widget will hopefully land soon

hook_file_*
My first Drupal project – files management in 4.6 :-(
Files are now first class objects
Modules can hook into hook_file_*
file.module is in the works

Code registry
Rasmus - “Drupal loads a lot of code”
Registry of functions, classes and interfaces
Getting rid of module_load_all() in bootstrap
Still more to do to take full advantage

Getting rid of $op
webchick: “Subscribe! Let's kill $op! Kill it dead!”
Why $op is not your friend
Smaller functions are easier to test
Easier to take advantage of the registry
No need for one size fits all API
More to do

Exception handling
Full featured exception handling in core
Supports DBTNG
Paves the way for getting errors from tests

But wait, there's more
Steak knives with every D7 download*
Code freeze is not set, so its likely a way off
Dries: “We'll release D7 when its ready”
Improvements to new features
Still to land – help system, block system, ...
* May not be true

Getting involved
Hacking core is fun!
Testing is a good place to start
http://groups.drupal.org/improvements-core
#drupal is a good place to get advice

me
http://drupal.org/user/38580

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Drupal 7 - Upcoming Features

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