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Mihai Moscovici

 

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Drupal 7 Status - DrupalCon Paris live blogging

11:23 Usability improvements: vertical tabs, permission screen, new defauld fronpage, default minimal profile.

11:25 Improved UX.

11:28 Toolbar: new IA along the top, shortcut bar for role-specific frequent access.

11:29 New admin theme called "Seven": overlays, edit in place.

11:30 Changes for site builders: new minim system requirements, timezone and country support, users can cancel own accounts, mix&mach public and private profiles, internationalization, native image handling (needs your help).

11:34 Security: e-mail notifications, php filter module, Cron.php requires key in URL to be run, new permission for running site updates, limit login attempts for better flood control, stronger password algorithms.

11:36 CCK: new fields type in core. Fields be applied to nodes, users, comments, taxonomy terms.

11:38 Many pages elements are now blocks/regions.

11:39 Re-vamped* .tpl.php: re-engineered XHTML, standart, semantic.

11:41 $contenmt is now an array of page properties that keeps track of what's been printed so far.

11:42 Javascript improvements: jQuery 1.3...

11:52 Faster, more scalable Drupal: proxy, XDebug, innoDB, CDN support for files

11:53 No more $op

11:54 New $page object

11:55 Lots of API: roles, filter, caching, locking framework

11:56 Node access improvement

11:57 New install profile

Get the full list of changes Drupal 7
CHANGELOG.txt
http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7
http://drupal.org/update/theme/6/7
http://drupal.org/project/coder

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