diff --git a/core/CHANGELOG.txt b/core/CHANGELOG.txt
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+++ b/core/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,24 +1,69 @@
-Drupal 8.0, xxxx-xx-xx (development version)
+Drupal 8.0.x, xxxx-xx-xx (development version)
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-- Added Twig as the default template engine and converted all .tpl.php templates
- to .html.twig.
+- Dramatically improved the front end:
+ * Made all built-in themes responsive.
+ * Added support for responsive images.
+ * Added Twig as the default template engine and converted all .tpl.php
+ templates and theme functions to .html.twig.
+ * Removed the PHPTemplate engine.
+ * Several large scale cleanups of the markup produced by Drupal.
+ * Added Classy as a base theme to maintain CSS classes and wrappers.
+ * Added Stable as the default base theme to maintain backwards compatibility
+ for core template and CSS changes, because templates and CSS outside
+ Stable can be improved in minor releases (8.1.0, 8.2.0 …).
+ * Redesigned several key elements of the Seven theme.
+ * Added support for HTML5 elements.
+ * Included the HTML5 Shiv library to support HTML5 elements in IE 8 and
+ below.
+ * Included Backbone.js and Underscore.js JavaScript frameworks.
+ * Updated to jQuery 2.1.4.
+ * Updated to jQuery UI 1.11.4.
+ * Removed jquery.bbq.
+ * Removed the Garland theme from core.
+ * Removed the Overlay module from core.
+ * Improved the asset library system to manage CSS and JavaScript files and
+ their dependencies. Allowing for smaller AJAX request payloads.
+ * jQuery is no longer loaded on all pages, only when another asset needs it.
+ * No JavaScript is loaded at all for anonymous users by default, for faster
+ page loads.
+ * Implemented SMACSS-style categorization for CSS files.
+ * Removed most support for Internet Explorer 8 and below.
+ * Added Modernizr for making styling changes based on browser support.
+ * All page template variables converted to blocks.
- Added tour module. Provides highly contextual tips for UI elements.
- Improved entity system.
* Added support for saving and deleting entities through the controller.
+ * Base entity fields (such as labels) support widgets, formatters and
+ translation.
+ * Form modes introduced, similar to display modes.
* Entities are now classed objects, implementing EntityInterface.
* Drupal now understands the concept of a "default" revision, tracked
independently from the latest revision, allowing for the creation of
drafts while the current revision stays published.
* All entity types, not just nodes, now have support for revisions.
-- Replaced the core routing system with one built on the Symfony2 framework.
+- Refactored routing system based on Symfony2 components.
+- Reworked menu links, local actions, and local tasks based upon the new routing
+ system.
+- Added plugin system to standardize implementation of several core APIs.
- Configuration:
* Added a centralized file-based configuration system.
* Allows module authors to provide configuration in a standard format.
* Implements functionality to get, set, add and remove configuration.
* Includes ability to override configuration values with language variants
and other runtime values.
-- Added the CKEditor WYSIWYG editor. Provides a drag-and-drop configuration UI.
-- Included the HTML5 Shiv library to support HTML5 elements in IE 8 and below.
+ * Supports configuration schema, dependencies, and validation to maintain
+ data-integrity between deployments and updates.
+- Improved authoring experience:
+ * Added the CKEditor WYSIWYG editor. Clean markup guaranteed thanks to tight
+ integration with the filter system.
+ * Includes uploading, aligning and captioning of images.
+ * Correspondingly modernized the default text formats.
+ * Provides a drag-and-drop configuration UI, which automatically updates the
+ HTML filter settings, making configuring text formats trivial for typical
+ use cases.
+ * Added align and caption filters that can be applied to any element:
+ images, blockquotes, code snippets, videos…
+ * In-place editing of any entity: nodes, blocks…
- Included the following Symfony2 components:
* ClassLoader - PSR-0-compatible autoload routines.
* DependencyInjection - Flexible dependency injection container.
@@ -28,10 +73,13 @@ Drupal 8.0, xxxx-xx-xx (development version)
* Process - Allows for executing commands in a sub-process.
* Routing - Framework for mapping incoming requests to controller
information.
+ * Serialization - Serialize complex nested objects into JSON/XML etc.
+ * Validator - Ensure that an object is in a valid state based upon some
+ validation rules defined for it.
* Yaml - Parser for YAML files.
-- Included the Assetic asset management framework for PHP.
-- Included Backbone.js and Underscore.js JavaScript frameworks.
-- Support added for making HTTP requests through a proxy server.
+- Added routing component from Symfony CMF.
+- Added Guzzle HTTP library.
+- Added Zend Feed component.
- Removed modules from core.
* The following modules have been removed from core, because contributed
modules with similar functionality are available:
@@ -42,35 +90,30 @@ Drupal 8.0, xxxx-xx-xx (development version)
* Poll
* Profile
* Trigger
-- Removed the Overlay module from core.
-- Removed the Garland theme from core.
- Removed the Statistics module's accesslog functionality and reports from core.
- Removed XML-RPC functionality from core.
- Removed user signatures support from core.
-- Removed backwards-compatibility with 'magic_quotes_gpc'/'magic_quotes_runtime'
- PHP configuration settings. Both are required to be disabled.
- Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID):
* Support for generating and validating UUIDs.
-- JavaScript changes:
- * Updated to jQuery 2.1.0
- * Updated to jQuery UI 1.10.2
- * Removed jquery.bbq
- Tremendously improved language support all around.
* Great language improvements for users:
* Improved language selection with user preference detection in the
- installer.
+ installer based on browser settings.
+ * The installer is presented in the user's native language.
* Moved base language support to Language module.
* Greatly simplified the interface for setting up languages.
* Improved browser language detection considerably.
- * Language domain and path prefix configuraton simplified and centralized;
- path prefix detection is now default.
+ * Language domain and path prefix configuration simplified and
+ centralized; path prefix detection is now default.
* Added HTML 5 language markup; language information added in markup in
several more places.
* Made it possible to assign external language codes to local languages.
* Introduced the possibility of an administration-specific language
preference for users.
+ * Language selection fallback language is now independently configurable
+ without needing to change the site default language.
* Simplified and added new features in interface translation:
- * Made interface translation directly accessible from language list.
+ * Made interface translation directly accessible from the language list.
* Centralized interface translation import to one directory.
* Drupal can now be translated to English and English can be deleted.
* Much improved built-in translation interface.
@@ -79,6 +122,7 @@ Drupal 8.0, xxxx-xx-xx (development version)
be identified and protected from translation update overwrites.
* All Gettext files are now imported in chunks, better for low resource
environments.
+ * Automated import and update of translations in the installer and later.
* Improved content language support:
* Made it possible to assign language to taxonomy terms, vocabularies,
menu items, and files.
@@ -107,29 +151,64 @@ Drupal 8.0, xxxx-xx-xx (development version)
developers.
* Made it possible for users to have a preferred language separate from
their user entity language.
- * The text formatter from t() is now available as format_string().
+ * The text formatter from t() is now available as FormattableMarkup.
* Added support for interface translation contexts in Drupal.t(),
- Drupal.formatPlural() as well as routing, tabs, actions, and contextual
- links.
+ Drupal.formatPlural() as well as routing, tabs, actions, shipped
+ menu items and contextual links.
* Removed textgroups support from interface translation in favor of
native configuration language support.
* Added configuration schema system to support generating translation
forms for any configuration.
* Reworked Gettext PO support to use pluggable read/write handlers.
* Added language select form element in the Form API.
-- Added Email field type to core.
-- Added Link field type to core.
-- Added Phone number field type to core.
+ * Added a transliteration API. (Only used for machine names in core.)
+- New field types added to core:
+ - Email
+ - Link
+ - Phone number
+ - Entity reference
+ - Date
+ - Comment (allows comment threads on entity types other than node).
- Added local image input filter, to enable secure image posting.
-- Added Views and Views UI module to core.
-- Added Entity Reference field type to core.
-- Added Date field type to core.
+- Added Views and Views UI module to core:
+ * Various core listings: /node, /admin/content/node, /admin/people etc. are
+ now served by views.
+ * REST API support built in.
+ * Rewrote caching integration for better performance.
+- Custom blocks are now fieldable, revisionable, and translatable entities.
+- An accessible modal API based on improvements made in collaboration with the
+ jQuery UI team and the Views team.
+- Fieldable contact forms allowing site-builders to easily build custom forms
+ for soliciting feedback from users.
- Added a Web Services module package.
* Added a RESTful web services provider module.
* Added a serialization module using the Symfony serialization component.
* Added a Hypertext Application Language (HAL) serialization module.
* Added a HTTP Basic authentication provider module.
+- Significant performance/scalability improvements:
+ * Cache tags, which allow content to be invalidated accurately and instantly,
+ including reverse proxies and CDNs.
+ * Cache contexts, which allow content to be cached correctly, and placeholdered
+ to improve cache hit rates.
+ * Cacheability bubbling, which allows strict tracking of assets and
+ cacheability throughout page rendering.
+ * Page caching has been factored out to its own module and is enabled by
+ default.
+ * Authenticated page caching has been added to core via the Dynamic Page Cache
+ module and is enabled by default.
+ * APCu, memory, and PHP file caching backends added to core, alongside support
+ for a chained, consistent cache backend to support correctly using fast
+ local cache implementations with multiple web servers.
- When using MySQL, the MyISAM engine is no longer supported.
+- Testing improvements
+ * Added PHPUnit for proper unit testing, see
+ https://phpunit.de/manual/4.8/en/index.html so you can run tests via
+ your IDE.
+ * Added BrowserTestBase as an alternative to simpletest for browser
+ testing (JavaScript support to be included in the future)
+ * Added KernelTestBase to provide a fast API testing of integration of
+ different components
+ * Core branch nightly tests include PHP 5.5, 5.6, 7, sqlite and PostgreSQL.
Drupal 7.0, 2011-01-05
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