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Sooper Drupal Themes: Wow your Drupal editors with DXPR Marketing CMS, now on Drupal 10 and Bootstrap 5!

Posted on by Michael G
Sooper Drupal Themes: Wow your Drupal editors with DXPR Marketing CMS, now on Drupal 10 and Bootstrap 5!

First of all congratulations to everyone on the release of Drupal 10! It’s an incredible milestone. Drupal 10 ships with significant improvements without asking for a lot of work to do the upgrade. A big thank you from DXPR to everyone who contributed to Drupal 10!

Today DXPR releases our Drupal 10 compatible Drupal page builder and low-code Drupal theme. You can enjoy these with our new Drupal 10 distribution, designed to impress just about anyone whether they are site builders, developers, or content editors.

Video tour of DXPR Marketing CMS

New Drupal 10 distribution:
Marketing CMS

DXPR’s demo sites used to be based on Acquia Lightning. This Drupal distribution has been great but met the end of its life a year ago. We learned a ton from working with this distribution, and we realized that we don’t want to depend on other companies’ distributions anymore, so we created Marketing CMS.

As the name suggests Marketing CMS is a Drupal distribution that takes special care of the needs of digital marketers, communications staff, and other content editors.

Marketing CMS sets up Drupal 10 with DXPR Builder and DXPR Theme complete with content types, drag and drop blocks, media library integration, and 3 user profiles to provide simple DXPR Builder interfaces to different user roles. We also ship the distro with modern UX solutions like responsive preview and admin toolbar searching (see video above). 

Watch the above video for a quick 6-minute tour!

If you’re more inclined to just play around you can use our online demo that lets you try Marketing CMS with the 3 different user profiles we created.

DXPR D10 Ready

Launch with Drupal 10

Our team worked around the clock for you to enjoy a brand new Drupal 10, seamlessly integrated with DXPR’s no-code page builder and low-code theme. We accomplished this while simultaneously working on Bootstrap 5 support, and releasing a brand new Drupal distribution powered by Drupal 10!

Because Drupal 10 has been a moving target with some deprecations being implemented late while others got postponed, we’re extra proud to deliver this complete Drupal 10 platform the same day Drupal 10 is released.

DXPR Builder + Bootstrap 5

DXPR Builder is built on the Bootstrap framework. Today you can start building your DXPR website with Bootstrap 5.2, which offers modernized widgets and better performance. Take a look at some of the improvements:

Bootstrap 5 Collapsibles

Bootrap 5 carousel

More device breakpoints with Bootstrap 5 layouts

DXPR Theme + Bootstrap 5

Our low-code Drupal theme “DXPR Theme” also gets a Bootstrap 5 update. This latest iteration of our free open-source theme lets you design your website to match your organization’s branding, without needing any code.

For more sophisticated theming work you can sub-theme DXPR Theme and create custom components, or a unique menu design.

DXPR Theme settngs form

DXPR + Gin Ecosystem

Drupal 10 comes standard with the Claro admin theme. In DXPR Marketing CMS we chose to use the Gin admin theme, by the same designer as Claro theme. Gin takes Drupal’s admin UI to the next level with a generally more modern and refined look and feel. It’s the icing on the cake for our Marketing CMS platform.

Gin on Drupal 10

Try our new admin demo!

The admin demo is free, no card required!

Enjoy your modern Drupal

Going forward we feel like, for the first time, Drupal can be the coolest, most user-friendly CMS of the pack. WordPress, Adobe Experience Manager, and Sitecore don’t look as modern as the DXPR + Gin + Drupal 10 combination. Want to see for yourself? You can try our online demo now!

Learn more:

ethname gem – Free Crowd-Sourced “Off-Chain” Eth(erum) Name Service / Helper

Posted on by Michael G
Hello, in the ongoing ruby crypto winter series I put together another little gem, that is, ethname – a light-weight crowd-sourced “off-chain” ethereum name to (contract) address service / helper (incl. punks v1,v2,v3,v4; phunks v1,v2, synth punks, punk blocks, etc.). Yes, you can! Add more names / contracts via git (hub) ;-). Happy data wrangling / processing and blockchaining with ruby. Cheers. Prost.

Legacy Update revives the original Windows Update website for XP, Vista, 7, and more

Posted on by Michael G
This is a community-run resource to help you fix the Windows Update service on earlier versions of Windows. Since Windows XP was discontinued in 2014, followed by Windows 7 in 2020, Microsoft’s support for their earlier OSes has significantly dwindled. As XP and earlier don’t officially support modern security improvements, such as the SHA256 hash algorithm required by modern SSL and Authenticode certificates as of 2019, much of the internet has become inaccessible to these devices. Adding insult to injury, Microsoft actively removed many downloads for XP and earlier versions in 2020. In effect, working with these OSes is now incredibly difficult. Windows Update provides many optional and recommended updates, in addition to drivers for your system, but Windows XP and 2000 can only install critical security updates through the built-in Automatic Updates feature. Legacy Update revives the original Windows Update website – the only way to see and install every update available for your system. This is very cool for virtual machines and old boxes you may have lying around for use with legacy software or games.

Mehfil e Sama – Qawali – 15th December 2022 – ARY Qtv

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Drupal blog: Drupal 10.0.0 is available

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Thanks to 2129 contributors from 616 organizations resolving 4083 issues in the past two and a half years, Drupal 10.0.0 is available today! This new version sets Drupal up for continued stability and security for the longer term. All new features will be added to Drupal 10 going forward.

What’s new in Drupal 10.0.0?

Better looking on the frontend and backend

The new Olivero theme provides a modern look and feel. Olivero includes built-in support for multi-level menus and listings in responsive grids. The new administration theme, Claro, provides an accessible, clean interface for site management. The prior default themes Bartik and Seven are available as contributed projects if you wish to use them.

Drupal blog: Drupal 10.0.0 is available

CKEditor 5 is the new content editor

With CKEditor 4 reaching end of life at the end of 2023, it was time to upgrade. Thanks to a fantastic collaboration with its developers, Drupal 10 comes with CKEditor 5 built-in. The new version brings a modern editing experience with in-place controls and support for arbitrary input and output formats. Optional premium features are also available, such as live collaborative editing. An upgrade path is provided to move editor settings over and developer tools are available to help port any custom integrations. For now, CKEditor 4 is also available as a contributed project, so you can continue using that for Drupal 10 for now until its end of support.

CKEditor 5 feature highlights

Internet Explorer support is removed

Microsoft has ended support for Internet Explorer and so has Drupal.This allows Drupal themes to use modern solutions for user facing problems.

Responsive grids in views

Views now supports a responsive grid display format. Instead of specifying the number of columns, and screen widths, users specify the maximum number of columns, the minimum grid cell width and the gutter spacing. When the grid cells resize to a point where they’re below the minimum width, the grid will reflow to have less columns. Alternatively, the grid will expand to fit in as many columns as permitted, while keeping the grid width above the minimum value. Dropping Internet Explorer 11 support enabled the addition of this feature.

Starterkit theme generation tool

Drupal 10 introduces a new command line tool to generate a standalone theme from a compatible base theme. We recommend using the tool to prevent breaking a sub-theme when the base theme changes. Runtime theme extension is still supported, but only advised if you have full control of the base theme (e.g. by creating it with the starterkit command).

Requires Symfony 6.2 and PHP 8.1

Drupal 10.0 depends on the Symfony 6.2 framework, and later Drupal 10 minor versions will be updated to future minor versions of Symfony 6. This sets Drupal up with the latest version of the underlying platform.

As PHP 7 reached end of life on November 28, 2022, it was clear Drupal 10 must require at least PHP 8. Symfony 6.2 requires PHP 8.1 and choosing that version provides the best support timeline for Drupal 10 itself as well. PHP 8.2 is also fully supported.

Non-essential features removed

The QuickEdit, Aggregator, HAL, RDF, and Color modules have been removed from core. They are available as contributed projects. This allows Drupal 10 to focus on the core strengths of the system.

All features added since Drupal 9.0 are still here

Drupal 10.0.0 includes all of the features that were added to Drupal since 9.0, such as lazy image loading support for better frontend performance, WebP support in image styles, a dedicated Content Editor user role, “Manage permissions” tabs for entity bundles, and bundle classes on the PHP level for better code encapsulation, among many other improvements.

Thousands of contributed projects ready at launch

Thanks to the diligent work of the Drupal community on automated code update tools, porting events and dedicated work on key projects over the past two and a half years, Drupal 10 launches with almost three thousand compatible extensions, 26% more than how many Drupal 9 launched with.

The future of Drupal 10

All new features will be added to only Drupal 10 going forward. Several key improvements are already in the works as contributed projects. The Project Browser contributed project is now in beta and includes a Composer-based user interface to install contributed projects with all their dependencies. The Automatic Updates contributed project is already stable, allowing you to apply patch-level core updates to your site. (Experimental support is included for minor version updates and contributed project updates). The Recipes initiative is less far along but already has early versions of automation functionality to ship composable bundles of Drupal modules and configuration.

All of these are planned to be added to Drupal 10 core in the future and will help users find, keep up with and combine all the fantastic contributed projects the Drupal community is famous for.

What does this release mean for me?

Visual of support timelines of Drupal minor releases

Drupal 9 site owners

Drupal 9 will reach end-of-life alongside two of its key components (Symfony 4 and CKEditor 4 on November 1, 2023. (There is a small chance that a final security release of Drupal 9 could be issued between November 1 and November 30, 2023 if one of these dependencies chooses to do so as well.)

Upgrades to Drupal 10 are supported from Drupal 9.4 and 9.5. However, Drupal 9.4 will no longer receive normal bugfixes. For continued bugfix support, Drupal 9 users should update to Drupal 9.5 now.

Drupal 9.4 and 9.5 will both receive security fixes until the release of 10.1 on June 21, 2023. After that date, Drupal 9.5 will be the only Drupal 9 version to receive security fixes until the November 2023 end-of-life.

Drupal 8 site owners

Drupal 8 is end of life as of November 17, 2021. There is no direct upgrade path to Drupal 10 from Drupal 8, so you will need to first upgrade from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9. There are disclosed security issues with Drupal core that are not fixed in any Drupal 8 version, so if you have not yet upgraded to Drupal 9, do so as soon as possible.

Drupal 7 site owners

Drupal 7 support was extended until November 1, 2023, and it will continue to receive bug and security fixes throughout this time. The migration path for Drupal 7 sites to Drupal 10 is stable. Choose which Drupal major version to update to based on your project timeline. Read more about the migration to Drupal 10.

Module, theme and translation contributors

Drupal 10 removes deprecated APIs. Use Upgrade Status on Drupal 9 to check your custom modules and themes for the changes needed. Upgrade Status will also give suggestions on automating the fixes.

Translators should check localize.drupal.org for any untranslated strings.