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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Code freeze in preparation of Drupal 6.0

Drupal announced about code freeze for Drupal 6.0 release.

In preparation of the Drupal 6.0 release development of Drupal code is frozen as of July 1st.
This new version of Drupal will have a lot of great improvements.
  • Improved logging functionality
  • Support for reverse proxies
  • Many language system improvements (support for right to left languages, advanced language detection, support for translating posts to different languages, etc)
  • Improved handling of teasers
  • Drastic theme system improvements
  • An improved installer
  • Support for OpenID
  • And much more ...
There are also a ton of API improvements that should lead to more and better contributed modules. Drupal 6 will be an important factor for Drupal's continued success in 2007 and 2008.
Release date is not announced yet.

Complete overview of the most notable improvements for 6.0 is available in CHANGELOG.txt

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