If you have integrated the University’s EID-based Enterprise Authentication (see documentation) on a UT Drupal Kit site, you will need to make a change to its the site’s Composer package requirements to be able to update to Drupal 10.
NOTE: Please see updated information on this issue at “Disruption to UT Drupal Kit’s Twitter feed functionality.”
The UT Drupal Kit team has become aware of the impending retirement of Twitter’s “V1.1” API (application programming interface). This API is used by the “Twitter Profile Widget” module for Drupal to retrieve data from Twitter and populate the Drupal Kit’s Twitter Feed component.
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UT Drupal Kit 3.11.0/3.11.1 Release
NOTE: Due to a regression introduced in the 3.11.0 release, the 3.11.1 bugfix release was created prior to the 3.11.0 release announcement.
This serves as the release announcement for both 3.11.0 and 3.11.1. For details about the 3.11.1 bugfix, please see the release notes.
UT Drupal Kit 3.11.0 is a bi-monthly maintenance release for the University of Texas at Austin’s custom distribution of the Drupal web content management system.
In addition to the usual mix of bugfixes and visual improvements, there are several notable changes in this release including the update to PHP 8 as the default version of PHP for sites hosted on Pantheon, the update to CKEditor 5, and the addition of an Instagram feed component.
This release also continues to pave the way for the planned update to Drupal 10 in the next scheduled maintenance release. Please see below for a special note about base themes and an action item for site owners using a custom theme that is NOT a subtheme of Forty Acres.
Callouts for the most impactful changes follow below. For full details of all issues included in this release, please refer to the changelog on the release notes, which links to the corresponding GitHub issues.
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Changes in CKEditor 5
The UT Drupal Kit 3.11 release introduces a completely new version of the rich text editor bundled with Drupal, CKEditor.
CKEditor 5 is a complete rewrite from version 4, redesigned from scratch for a more usable and modern editing experience, as well as a more robust and customizable technical architecture. An overview of the changes in CKEditor 5 is available from the CKEditor help center.
This change should be completely transparent to the end users visiting sites powered by the UT Drupal Kit. For content editors, there are a few changes to both the appearance and functionality of the editor in CKEditor 5 that should be easy to navigate.
Summary (TL;DR)
- Rollout of Drupal 10 to the UT Drupal Kit is still scheduled to be complete by the May 2023 maintenance release.
- Owners of customized UTDK sites have specific responsibilities to ensure that their sites will be ready for the transitions to PHP 8, CKEditor 5, and Drupal 10.
- The PHP 8 transition has been pushed up to the March 2023 maintenance release.
This post is a follow-up to the November 2022 post UT Drupal Kit’s Roadmap to Drupal 10. Please read that post first for the complete background on Drupal 10 and ITS’ planned roadmap for updating the UT Drupal Kit.
Here is an updated overview of the high-level roadmap through the eventual update to Drupal 10, followed by more detailed discussion of each step.
| Date | UTDK version | Planned change |
|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | 3.11.0 | NEW – Update to PHP 8 Update CKEditor to version 5 |
| May 2023 | 3.12.0 | Update Drupal Core to 10.x |
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UT Drupal Kit 3.10.0 Release
This is the second of four releases in the UT Drupal Kit’s planned transition to Drupal 10. The next planned step is to update all UTDK sites to CKEditor 5 in the planned 3.11 release scheduled for March 2023. Please see UT Drupal Kit’s Roadmap to Drupal 10 for more details.
UT Drupal Kit 3.10.0 is a bi-monthly maintenance release for the University of Texas at Austin’s custom distribution of the Drupal web content management system.
In addition to the usual mix of bugfixes and visual improvements, the major change in this release is the update to version 9.5 of Drupal core. See Drupal core update below for additional details.
This release also includes a fix for the issue previously described in PSA – Issue with page cloning can cause data loss which could potentially cause data loss on pages which had originally been cloned from other Flex Pages. See Bugfix for data loss related to page cloning below for additional details on the fix and how to check whether your site experienced any data loss.
Callouts for the most impactful changes follow below. For full details of all issues included in this release, please refer to the changelog on the release notes, which links to the corresponding GitHub issues.
NOTE: If the content editors on your site do not use the page clone feature in the UT Drupal Kit, you can disregard this message.
Based on customer reports, ITS has discovered a specific scenario in which page cloning in UT Drupal Kit 3 can result in permanent loss of content.
The root cause of this issue has already been identified, and a permanent fix is in development but will not be available before the end of 2022. In the meantime, site owners can take simple actions to avoid being impacted by this issue.
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UT Drupal Kit 3.9.0/3.9.1 Release
NOTE: Due to a CSS regression introduced in the 3.9.0 release, the 3.9.1 bugfix release was created prior to the 3.9.0 release announcement.
This serves as the release announcement for both 3.9.0 and 3.9.1. For details about the 3.9.1 bugfix, please see the release notes.
UT Drupal Kit 3.9.0 is a bi-monthly maintenance release for the University of Texas at Austin’s custom distribution of the Drupal web content management system.
In addition to the usual mix of bugfixes and visual improvements, the major changes in this release are the update to version 9.4 of Drupal core and an update to the “Layout Builder Styles” module which introduces a change to the user interface for content editors. There is also a major version change to the “Facets” module which may require attention by developers of customized sites.
Callouts for the most impactful changes follow below. For full details of all issues included in this release, please refer to the changelog on the release notes, which links to the corresponding GitHub issues.
See February 2023 Update – UT Drupal Kit’s Roadmap to Drupal 10 for updates to this post.
Summary (TL;DR)
- Drupal 10 is scheduled to be released in December 2022.
- Rollout of Drupal 10 to the UT Drupal Kit will be a gradual process over the course of the next four scheduled maintenance releases.
- Owners of customized UTDK sites have specific responsibilities to ensure that their sites will be ready for the final transition to Drupal 10.
- Work on these tasks should start immediately.
(This post includes discussion of the Drupal project’s release cycle and version numbers. For more information, see “Drupal core release cycle: major, minor, and patch releases.”)
Drupal 10 is scheduled to be released on December 14, 2022, with a simultaneous release of Drupal 9.5 as the long-term support (LTS) version of Drupal 9. The end of security support for Drupal 9 is scheduled for November 2023.
As it was with the update from Drupal 8 to 9, the UT Drupal Kit will include the Drupal 10 update as part of a standard maintenance release. But due to the large scope of changes involved in Drupal 10, we plan to make the journey from Drupal 9 to 10 through a series of steps spread over six months, to allow site owners sufficient time to prepare.
Here is an overview of the high-level roadmap through the eventual update to Drupal 10, followed by more detailed discussion of each step.
| Date | UTDK version | Planned change |
|---|---|---|
| November 2022 | 3.9.0 | Update Drupal Core to 9.4 |
| January 2023 | 3.10.0 | Update Drupal Core to 9.5 |
| March 2023 | 3.11.0 | Update CKEditor to version 5 |
| May 2023 | 3.12.0 | Update Drupal Core to 10.x |
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UT Drupal Kit 2.36 Release
UT Drupal Kit 2.36.0 is a bi-monthly maintenance release for the University of Texas at Austin’s distribution of the Drupal web content management system. This release includes updates to Drupal core and multiple contrib modules. There is also a non-functional change to the composer.json file in the distribution’s document root. There are no other changes in this release.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This release marks the final scheduled release of the 2.x branch of the UT Drupal Kit. Future releases will be created on an “as-needed” basis, driven by availability of updates for Drupal 7 core and contrib. Please see Release Schedule for UT Drupal Kit for more details.