Welcome to the fifth D7Security newsletter!
d7security.org website launch
Our website has launched at https://www.d7security.org/ 🚀
This is a statically generated website built with Docusaurus in our Gitlab Pages repository. Thank you to our D7Security members Sinduri Guntupalli and Allison Vorthman for building and launching it!
Blog post about unsupported modules
Klausi wrote a blog post about Drupal 7 modules losing security support before Drupal 7 core: What happens when a Drupal 7 module used by 70,000 sites gets unsupported?
Telemetry to collect D7Security usage data
On drupal.org project usage data is collected to get an idea how many sites use Drupal 7 core or contributed projects. We want to do the same and implemented a small data collection server for D7Security. It stores only aggregated usage statistics (which projects are installed in which version) to preserve privacy of Drupal 7 sites. This will give us insights into which projects are most used.
Please help us collect statistics by installing d7security_client 7.x-1.3 according to our user guide!
New D7Security supported modules
A couple of Drupal 7 modules have gone unsupported on drupal.org and we adopted them in the D7Security group:
New D7Security members
I'm happy to report that we added new members to the D7Security group:
- Yogesh Pawar (yogeshmpawar on drupal.org, yogeshmpawar on gitlab.com)
- Ayush Mishra (ayushmishra206 on drupal.org, ayushmishra206 on gitlab.com)
- Sinduri Guntupalli (sinduri on drupal.org, sinduri.g on gitlab.com)
- Alex Burrows (aburrows on drupal.org, abdesignuk on gitlab.com)
- Paul McKibben (paulmckibben on drupal.org, paulmckibben on gitlab.com)
- Ra Mänd (ram4nd on drupal.org, ram4nd on gitlab.com)
- Alex Pott (alexpott on drupal.org, alexpott on gitlab.com)
- Vijay Mani (vijaycs85 on drupal.org, vijaycs85 on gitlab.com)
Commercial extended support for Drupal 7
There are now 3 official commercial providers for Drupal 7 extended support listed on drupal.org. It is still unclear how they will cooperate to fix and release Drupal 7 security updates.
How you can help
Here are some opportunities how you can get involved and help us:
- Install the d7security_client 7.x-1.3 according to our user guide on your Drupal 7 site(s)
- Help us set up an RSS feed on d7security.org so that blog posts will be aggregated to Drupal Planet
- Work with the Drupal 7 soft landing initiative to mention D7Security in the documentation on drupal.org (Discussion issue)
That is all for today, please reach out in our communication channels if you have any questions!