Drupal 6.0 released
After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are evident in Drupal 6's major usability improvements, security and maintainability advancements, friendlier installer, and expanded development framework. Further, from bug fix to feature request, these issues follow-through on the Drupal project's continued commitment to deliver flexibility and power to themers and developers.
Today, Drupal powers sites including the homepages of Warner Brothers Records, The New York Observer, Fast Company, Popular Science, and Amnesty International and project sites by SonyBMG, Forbes, Harvard University, and more. Drupal can be used to create personal weblogs (Tim Berners-Lee), deliver podcasts (TWIT.tv), connect online communities (SpreadFireFox.com), form artist collectives (Terminus 1525) or inform the masses (The Onion).
What's new
The Drupal 6.0 release contains many improvements, some visible from the first click, and others hidden beneath the hood. For a quick video tour, check out Greg Knaddison's "New features in Drupal 6.0 screencast", or one of the other screencasts linked below. While the complete list of changes is too lengthy to list here, we have included just a few of the reasons we're so excited about Drupal 6.
Introducing the easiest version of Drupal ever.
There are only so many clicks in a day. With Drupal 6, the smooth new installer will get your web project up and running in minutes. More time for you to enjoy the new and intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
- Quick and easy setup
- Installing Drupal is now a snap, since the new installer guides you quickly through the process. You can even import translations of the Drupal interface from within the installer and enjoy Drupal in your own language right from the start. You'll be posting content in minutes! Check out a screencast by Addison Berry.
- Drag-and-drop administration
- Use drag-and-drop to create and manage your site's menus. Move blocks around to change the content on your pages, or organize books intuitively by dragging pages within an outline. The drag-and-drop interface is available for menu items, forums, taxonomy terms, uploaded files, input formats, profile fields, and more.
- All languages spoken here!
- Translate posts to different languages through an easy interface. Have Drupal automatically choose a language for the interface based on a custom URL, a user setting or browser preferences. Take advantage of left-to-right and right-to-left language support directly "out-of-the-box". Check out a screencast by Michael F and another one by Greg Knaddison.
- Improved multilingual interface
- Automatically import translations when adding a new language, installing modules or enabling themes.
- Quick interface translation
- Download and install the optional localization client module to translate the Drupal interface "on the fly".
Great new core modules.
The sleek and slender core Drupal distribution includes impressive new features.
- Actions and triggers
- Need a custom workflow? Want to send customized e-mails when a post is created or control how posts are published? Automate your processes with just a few clicks using the new and powerful "actions" feature. No programming knowledge required! Actions are available for posts, users, comments and more.
- Sign in with OpenID
OpenID support is built in, making it even easier for your visitors to become a member of your site. OpenID is a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the internet. With OpenID, login to all your favorite websites and forget about the online paperwork.
- Update status module
- Always know when new versions or security fixes are available. The update status module stays in touch with drupal.org to keep you informed of new versions of Drupal, your modules and your themes.
Theming: it's never been easier.
Customizing the look and feel of your site is easier, just as powerful, and even more flexible.
- CSS-only theming
- Define regions, dependencies and features with simple theme .info files without writing a line of PHP code, opening the door to slim CSS-only themes.
- Theme developer module
- Drupal 6 supports new tools for themers, including the exciting Theme Developer module (a separate download). It's the equivalent of Firebug, but for Drupal theming and will greatly enhance your theming workflow. Check out the screencast by Moshe Weitzman.
- Customize your theme
- Want to change how something looks? Almost all themeable content now uses separate template files written in simple HTML, so just copy a template to your theme directory and modify as desired. No coding - no hassle. Watch the screencast by Earl Miles.
- Enhanced preprocessing
- Preprocessing functions free themers from maintaining PHP code (the template.php file) in themes. Themes remain just as flexible as before and with improved, comprehensive documentation, are even easier to use.
- A unified approach
- Drupal 6 extends its themeing support and automatic translation features to interface elements provided by JavaScript.
- Updated jQuery
- Since the release of Drupal 5, Drupal has leveraged the powerful JavaScript library jQuery to deliver its interface enhancements and Ajax interactions. Drupal 6 continues this tradition, using jQuery to provide an even richer user experience. The jQuery version 1.2.3 is included with Drupal 6.
Most secure Drupal release ever.
Beginning with the important Update status module, more tools are available to protect your site and your users.
- We've got your back!
- Drupal's security team helps you keep your site secure. Working closely with the authors of contributed projects and the core Drupal code committers, coordinated security releases are published as necessary. With the core Update status module and a subscription to the e-mail Security Announcements list, you'll always be among the first to know about new security updates.
- Password strength checking
- Get instant feedback on the strength of your password.
- Granular permissions
- Role-based permissions are much more refined. Manage your user's privileges with ease and precision.
- PHP format secured
- The "PHP input format" is now an "opt-in" core module, rather than being enabled by default. Safer for you.
Performance and maintenance.
Even with great new features and improvements, we've still optimized performance. Less code is loaded on each page, so you can use more modules with the same memory limits.
- Optimized code
- Drupal 6 splits most core modules into smaller pieces and only loads what's needed, resulting in less code per page. JavaScript aggregation and block-level caching further improves performance for both authenticated and anonymous users.
- Scalability options
- For large sites, Drupal 6 performs properly when running behind a reverse proxy like Squid or Pound.
- A new menu system
- Drupal's menu system has been rewritten from scratch, making it much more efficient and powerful.
- Better file handling
- Files are keyed to users instead of posts, and new, reusable validation functions are available that check file sizes, extensions and resolution.
- Extended logging
- Choose between database or OS-level logging, with the flexibility to monitor your Drupal site events with your own enterprise monitoring tools. Drupal's monitoring tools follow the guidelines in RFC 3164.
- Schema API
- Drupal 6's Schema API provides rich support for creating and maintaining data tables, improving compatibility of both core and contributed modules with databases other than MySQL.
- Batch API
- Run time-consuming operations with the Batch API. An automatic progress bar monitors the tasks running in the background through multiple HTTP requests.
- Scripting from the command line
- Easily run Drupal code from the command line with the new drupal.sh script.
It's the little things…
Many small improvements to enhance your Drupal experience.
- Better polls
- Quickly add and manage poll options.
- Forum improvements
- Include polls, quiz forms or any other type of content in forums. Use the more granular permissions to hand out forum moderator rights.
- Easier path alias management
- Quickly find path aliases with powerful filter tools.
- E-mail notifications
- Send administrators e-mail when users are approved, blocked, or deleted.
- Better anonymous commenting
- Drupal 6 remembers the contact details of anonymous posters, automatically filling them in for their next comment.
- New teaser handling
- Cut a long story short with new interactive teaser tools. You decide whether to have a teaser or a separate summary for each post.
- Sticky table headers
- Always know what you are looking at. Table headings automatically scroll with you as you move up and down the page.
- Custom date formats
- Get precise control over how dates are presented with custom date formats.
- Pretty signatures
- User signatures are now optional and can be themed.
Maintenance releases
The Drupal 6 branch is maintained by Gábor Hojtsy with the help of Dries Buytaert based on feedback from the issue queues. The first maintenance release will be 6.1. Please note that as of now, the Drupal 4.7 branch is no longer maintained, so switching to Drupal 5 or 6 is strongly advised.
Installation and upgrading
For installation instructions, please see the file "INSTALL.txt" in the root directory of your Drupal 6.0 distribution. For a video walk-through, see the videocast about installing Drupal 6.0 by Addison Berry.
For upgrade instructions, please see the file "UPGRADE.txt", in the root directory of your Drupal 6.0 distribution. For a video walk-through, see the videocast about upgrading to Drupal 6.0 by Greg Knaddison.
Coder, a contributed module maintained by Doug Green, provides automated assistance with converting your Drupal 5 modules to work with Drupal 6.
For support options, please see the support page. For questions, or to review the experiences of others, visit the forums for installation problems or upgrade problems.
Upgrading from Drupal 4.7 or earlier
- Drupal 6 supports direct upgrades from 5.x versions. If you are using an earlier version of Drupal, first upgrade your site to the latest version of Drupal 5, and then upgrade to Drupal 6.
Upgrading from Drupal 5.x
- Ensure that you have Drupal 6 versions of all of your contributed modules and themes, and that you have reviewed and updated your site's custom code (if any).
- When upgrading, always save backups of your original files and database.
- Disable contributed themes and modules before starting the upgrade process. Contributed modules and themes may be upgraded after your core upgrade is complete.
- Because some modules may have been renamed or removed within the Drupal core, you should not extract Drupal 6.0 on top of your existing installation. Instead, start with a fresh copy of Drupal and then add your custom modules, themes and configuration file.
- If you are using the Update status contributed module for Drupal 5.x, you are encouraged to both disable and uninstall the module before upgrading to Drupal 6.0. Also, some of the advanced features of the contributed version of Update status were not moved into the Update status module included with Drupal core, and can be found in the Update status advanced settings contributed module for Drupal 6.x.
- In Drupal 6, translation files are now spread across a set of small files, and distributed in a package (since importing translations from one large file did not work on some hosts). To import all new translation files automatically, uncompress the translation files into the Drupal root and use the Reimport tab (under Import page in the Translate interface administration section) provided by the contributed Localization client module. The Localization client module provides a number of useful features for managing and translating a multilingual site. Drupal 6 versions (when available) of other contributed modules, including i18n and localizer, also provide additional features that complement or complete the Drupal 6 multilingual feature set.
Upgrading from a Drupal 6.0 release candidate
- Copy the new distribution over your existing installation and run the upgrade script.
Additional notes
- Sites which deploy their Drupal installations by directly checking out code from CVS will need to install the CVS deploy contributed module for Drupal 6.x for the Update status module in 6.x core to work properly.
Special thanks to Roy Scholten (yoroy) for assembling the new feature list and to Keith Smith and others for editing it to its current state.
Yeah!
Way to go, congrats to the entire team!
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great :)=
great :)=
Finally
Finally, was waiting for the release for quite long now... I guess I can start couple of projects that I have in mind now... :)
Thanks...
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j0575
Speed test
I'm really impressed with how fast Drupal 6 is. I set up a quick demo site if anyone wants to see it in action:
http://ppalinks.com/drupal6/
1000 randomly generated nodes, with taxonomy and comments.
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Wow! Now that is smokin'!
What type of server are you on? Is it dedicated?
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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It's shared hosting, not dedicated.
It's not a dedicated server, it's a shared-hosting account at AN Hosting (the same account I run my other sites on, actually). If you're interested, here's my review of AN Hosting.
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John Forsythe
Drupal 6.0.
I'm just waiting for this release!
How much traffic are you
How much traffic are you getting on that speed test.
What are the server specs?
Lots..
The server I'm on is a little over a year old. It's a shared-hosting account from AN Hosting. I don't have the full specs, I just know it's fast :)
At the moment, that demo site is getting several thousand hits per day. That's not including traffic to the other sites I have on my account (blamcast.net, etc).
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Blamcast - Custom Drupal Themes and more..
Congratulation For Drupal6
Thanks for the demo site and it quite fast.
i'd like to use it for my sites but some modules not available yet.
godam64 : Organisasi
great!!
this is really awesome!!
javier --> Film Composer
Waouw, didn't expect it so
Waouw, didn't expect it so fast ! Congrats and best wishes for Drupal 6 !
yeah! just started to
yeah! just started to download! ;)
Downloading..
I started it right now! Hope it rocks!
Congrats!
Congrats!
Awesome!
A big thank you to all contributors and especially to Gábor for managing this incarnation of the best CMS so well.
Drupal 6
I absolutely agree, Gábor has handled this task beautifully and with skill. Not taking anything away from previous core branch maintainers but Drupal 6 has endured a lot of code changes.
I await various benchmarks between D5 vs D6 as well as Drupal vs Joomla etc with open arms. Well done to the developers and the whole community. What's the progress on migrating Drupal.org over to D6?
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Dee
iScene Interactive :: iScene.eu
Wow!
Awesome release!
Well done everyone and
Well done everyone and special thanks to Gabor for the great branch stewardship. The decisions weren't always easy but the result is worth the pain. Thank you.
Fabulous timing
I've been spending the best part of two weeks now upgrading my site to Drupal 6 (yes, it really has taken that long... and yes, it has been rather tricky) and should have it ready to go this week. The fact that I'll be launching on an official release and not a releae candidate is quite a relief.
Congratulations to everyone on this release! Its good to see hook_watchdog in there (originally proposed by me, but developed by coders around the world, a testament to the power of open source) and a few very minor patches I made (like, spelling typos etc) - but the big thanks go to the guys who seem to spend all day every day in #drupal hammering away at all the patches and issues.
Jake
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School and university yearbooks and Drupal web services, London
Successful upgrade
I successfully upgraded the website - www.allyearbooks.co.uk - to Drupal 6 within 48 hours of its' release. Its great to be able to start using the super-handy #ahah FAPI property, and benefit from jQuery 1.2.3.
However, I haven't found the upgrade easy. There have been several undocumented (or at least, very hard to find) changes in the API which caused high levels of frustration. For example, the hooks called when you press the submit button on a form seem to have changed, and because a form is now cached, its not rebuilt after validation errors, causing some nifty stuff I had to fail.
Basically, if you just use Drupal's core modules you'll find an upgrade exceptionally easy. But if you have thousands of lines of code in your own module, expect to spend several long days or weeks getting things changed for Drupal 6's API.
Drupal doesn't *do* backwards compatibility in terms of its API, and I think this is a good thing as it allows Drupal's code to be the best, without awkward hacks and compromises. But this can also make work a pain for module developers, especially if they're trying to keep releases available for multiple Drupal versions. The fact that Drupal 7 probably won't be out for at least a year is therefore a good thing: I don't want to have to upgrade to the newest Drupal version every 6 months; and because the last-last version of Drupal (now 4.7) is becomes unsupported as the newest comes out, the upgrade cycle is mandatory if you want any level of security.
Jake
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School and university yearbooks and Drupal web services, London
Like what I wanted to write
Since three days I am rewriting some of my node modules - and this is so very not funny!
Please do not ever again change the API when not having striking reasons.
When Drupal becomes a used system in professional environments this should definitely stop. You can not tell a customer like UBS who spends hundreds of thousands of dollars for system integration and customizing that there are frequent changes necessary that will cost again.
And don't forget that coding is just about 20% of the cost of a release in such envs (specs, testing, rollouts etc. is 80%).
But to be honest, I am not deep enough in the core to have an idea which of these changes are absolutely necessary - on the other side - I can't see too much difference from 5.7 to 6 (in an enduser view).
And a least - thanks for bringing drupal to the world.
API changes
"Please do not ever again change the API when not having striking reasons."
Do you think the devs change the API just because they think it will be fun to watch people struggle to upgrade? There's always a reason for the change: to improve Drupal. Drupal has had a policy of moving forward without worrying about backwards compatability as long as I've been around and I'm sure much longer than that. Yes, it makes upgrades painful, but it's necessary to make Drupal the best it can be. It should definitely _not_ stop.
You have roughly a year before 5.x becomes unsupported. That should be plenty of time for anyone to upgrade their custom code.
Michelle
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See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out life in the Coulee Region.
"moving forward without
"moving forward without worrying about backwards compatability" - will definitely kick you out of every serious business.
But anyway, I just wanted to say, that it would be great to have a full documentation of the API changes (like the fileupload.module - that's unfortunately not working in V6) before the RC cycle is finished.
I sure want to help, too. When I figured out, how node modules are to be written now, I will write an article here. But currently, I am a little bit frustrated (about the API docs - rest of V6 is pretty much better than V5 was).
Rainer
Upgrade guide
The module upgrade guide is regularly updated throughout the development process:
http://drupal.org/update/modules
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http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog
http://www.palantir.net
I did not have success, so I
I did not have success, so I changed back to WP ;(
Writing thanks
Thanks also to Gábor and others who may have contributed behind the scenes for writing the best, most comprehensive release announcement yet. It really puts our best side forward, is easy to read, and does a great job of covering most of the major improvements. Well done!
Just want to say THANK YOU!
Just want to say THANK YOU!
Happy
I am just happy to see the new version released!
thanks!
Great stuff guys
Can't wait to see all the modules ... and bring on Drupal 7!
the best drupal ever!
congratulations!
Drupal 6 is the best release ever, and now with major additions like true multilingual support, rtl intigration, drupal has become easier to deploy world-wide.
and, by the way, , this is such an excellent press release!
Mohammed al-shar'
Nattiq Technologies
Please vote on Slashdot!
- Robert Douglass
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And on Reddit.com
http://reddit.com/info/68m6c/comments/
- Robert Douglass
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Read your book...
Talked our local library into buying your book and used it when I was getting started with Drupal last year. Thanks a bunch! It got checked out two or three times, then someone decided they liked it so much, they never returned it ;) Now I can't reference it, but it was great to help me get started.
Blessings Bro,
Anthony Pero
Fyi, the digg widget
Would not work for me with FF2 and Safari 3 for the mac, nor IE6 for XP (the widget doesn't actually show up in IE6). It was only after using IE7 that I could finally digg. :-(
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...and Digg
http://digg.com/software/Drupal_6_0_has_been_RELEASED_download_now
Rock on drupal dev team!
done, yes!
done, yes!
Congratulations!
Congratulations to all contributors, and a special thanks to Gábor for the tough work of coordination around D6.
Happy new drupal!!!
Happy new drupal!!! :D
Saluti
BES
Awesome !! Like any good
Awesome !! Like any good software it will make administrator dumber and dumber !!
Improvements in drupal theming is path breaking and was much needed !!
Great job !! I am gonnna crack on it tonight...
Thanks
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www.dipenchaudhary.com
http://blog.dipenchaudhary.com
Great news! Congrats and
Great news! Congrats and thanks to all who helped with Drupal 6.
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Congrats
Yeah, a really Great Congratulations and a BIG THANKS to all the Drupal Team, this deserve a super celebration!!!!
Congrats
Thank you team for the great effort
you guys the best
Awesome stuff
Awesome stuff
good stuff
that is some high quality shit.
now all we need is modules to catch up!
great work! high five!
Thanks
I just played with Drupal for several days only and I can say that my initial impression is positive compared with my Joomla and Wordpress experience
Congratulations to all
Congratulations to all Drupalusers around the word.
Drupal i Norge - (DiN)
Ole Martin
http://www.drupal.no
Congratulations!
Congrats guys, cant wait to work with 6!
thanks for the good work!
thanks for the good work!
thanks Gábor for your hard
thanks Gábor for your hard work over the last many weeks in order to get this ready for release.
YAY!
Great work everyone
-Craig Jackson
-Web Developer
Thank you all
Gábor Hojtsy, thank you for excellent work. Thank you all developer, tester and users.
A small list site on drupal(The high traffic sites list):
and many others :)
P.S.
I Wait correction for Localization server.
People expect localized version 6
Congratulations!
Congratulations! This is just more evidence of the power of the Drupal Community - Rock on!
AmyStephen@gmail.com
http://OpenSourceCommunity.org
A nice blog post from Amy is
A nice blog post from Amy is available here
Care to share your thoughts on why this release is important for community sites?
Trevor Twining
http://www.trevortwining.com
Fantastic
This will have a big impact on the Internet this year, and I'm delighted it got finished before March. Now we all gotta help get our favorite modules humming along. Also i think it would be helpful to link to that massive page with the D6 module statuses. Bravo to all coders, testers, groupies, hackers, crackers, nitpickers, visionaries, consultants, wonks and generally cool cats!!
Here's a link
http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0#comment-728372
Enjoy!
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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This is awesome!
Thanks so much to everyone who contributed. Really, really good work!
Shai
content2zero.com
Hooray!
Many thanks to everyone responsible.
Wow
I am going to be trying this out today on an actual project site. I had no idea all of these improvements were going to actually make it into 6. nice.
T_T 你终于来了。。。
T_T
你终于来了。。。
long time waiting..
Great news, I was waiting
Great news, I was waiting for release Drupal 6 to make my site public.
Thank all for this release :)
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http://learnvietnam.com
congratulations!
..and celebrations..:]
..can't wait to try it..
..but i fear I'll have to wait for some modules to team up..
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Congratulations!
Congrats to everyone who worked so hard to make Drupal 6 happen so quickly!
I'm looking forward to trying out the new features.
Upgrade?
Happy Drupal!
I just installed Drupal 6.
It say's that security updates are required. Recommened version is Drupal6.0-rc4.
What should I do?
Should I really update to a RC?
update
Do not update a fresh 6.0 to RC4!
They just forgot to update the release information XML located at: http://drupal.org/release-history/drupal/6.x
Be patient, I'm sure they will correct it soon.
Fabulous! And here's the status on many contributed modules
First, I'd like to toast everyone that helped get us to this point! BIG KUDOS to all ya rockstahs!!!
Second, I'd like to make everyone aware of the Contributed Module Status group that I created over on g.d.o with the help of Michelle and the additional help from dozens of contributors. From the main group page, you can easily find the Contributed modules status - version 6.x wiki page that lists the status on over 100 contributed modules! This group is where we hope you will always be able to visit for a quick snapshot view of the hundreds of contributed modules.
Third, since Contributed modules status - version 6.x is a wiki page, I encourage anyone and everyone, whether a long-time core contributer or the newest newbie, to add any missing contributed modules to the wiki and to keep it regularly updated. There are hundreds of missing contributed modules and it would be great to have them all listed. If a few hundred folks could add 2-5 modules each to the list, we'd have it updated in no time! :)
Keep up the great work!
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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Congrats
Congrats and thanks to all involved!
todosjuntos.org, the Spanish Joomla! metacommunity
inmo-e.com, servicios inmobiliarios
nice work
Congratulations to the Drupal community on another great release!
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farrell kramer communications
Drupal 6 makes life easier
I posted an article on my blog that explains how D6 will be useful in a community site re-vamp we're working on.
Trevor Twining
http://www.trevortwining.com
Drupal 6
Great work! Congrats and best wishes for Drupal 6 !
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www.VorchdorfOnline.at
Congratulations!
A great day for all Drupalers. I'm starting to work on upgrades for my sites and some of my modules to work in D6.
Alexis Bellido
Ventanazul: web development and Internet business consulting shouldn't be boring
Available updates bug?
I just installed Drupal 6 and it shows the release candidates as available security updates.
Thanks, please see this link
http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0#comment-728393
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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Congratulations.
Congratulations everyone, thanks for you hard work.
Great! And a link to the
Great!
And a link to the RFC: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3164.html
Thanks!
I've updated the section on logging in the post to reflect this link to the "RFC 3164 - The BSD Syslog Protocol".
Can't wait to see drupal.org on D6!
Congrats on the release guys!
Can't wait to see drupal.org running on Drupal 6.
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Jason
Laura from PingVision is
Laura from PingVision is excited about the new theming features, check out her post.
Trevor Twining
http://www.trevortwining.com
yeye congrates to
yeye congrates to everyone.good work.
www.secgeeks.com
www.newskicks.com
Dries offers his input
You can see that Drupal founder Dries Buytart is very excited about this release.
Go Drupal Go
Can't wait to try my hands on drup 6.Congratulations to the drupal core team!!!
Ghana Real Estate | Pineapple Powder | Shea Butter
I must confess I wasn't very
I must confess I wasn't very enthusiastic about Drupal 6 at all. Granted, there were some cool features like localization and the new menu system. Now I've read this news item (Which looks very, very good, by the way!) the only thing I can say is that you guys have managed to surprise me another time, just like you did with the Drupal 5 release.
Thank you very much and good luck with the Drupal 7 release!
James Colin from Money Blog Wiki
James Colin from Blog Money Wiki is looking forward to the multi-language functionality now in Drupal 6
Awesome
Coolio+Superbo
Joshua Brauer
Joshua Brauer is excited about the AJAX and AHAH usability improvements in his post.
Robert Douglass is rallying the troops
Robert Douglass is rallying the troops with his call to blog about the Drupal 6 release.
Congrats and best wishes for
Congrats and best wishes for Drupal 6 ! Thank you very much for your hard work!!
Daniele
Thank you!
Thank you guys!
OFF:
(Neked különösen Gábor! :) )
Félicitations à tous
Congratulations to all for this powerful release.
Question: when will drupal.org run on Drupal 6?
drupal.org upgrades
Gábor covered this point in the RC4 announcement:
Yummilicous
Thanks to all the Drupal peeps who worked hard on D6's release. Mabuhay (long live)!
As for me, I'm so gonna ditch my date on Valentines Day tinkering on this latest Drupal release.
Happy Heart's Day. Thanks again for this awesome gift. :)
I can't believe it
I can't believe this is free and Open Source.
Some ofthe new features look nice. Some others simply kick ass!!!
I cant wait to start playing
I cant wait to start playing with Drupal 6 ! Well done everyone. Next step is getting the contribs to be compatible.
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Great!!! Time to update my
Great!!!
Time to update my RC4
http://jordi.bufi.es
Excellent Work
Thanks for your valuable time and effort.
Thank you, guys!
Great release!
So much improved
congrats,
this release is, once again, a significant upgrade
1and1.com doesn't support 6.0
I hosted all my sites on 1and1.com, and it doesn't support 6.0
I am crying
fuzi
Time to move ...
Time to move ...
Try Modwest: http://tinyhttp.com/a0h
Or
HTTPme: http://tinyhttp.com/14i
Marcel
http://www.websitetrafficreseller.com
How do you know that? Did
How do you know that? Did you ask them? I'm planing to upgrade my drupal and it's on 1and1 server also :(
their database is MySQL
their database is MySQL database 4.0.27
6.0 wants 4.1.1
Requirements problem
The following error must be resolved before you can continue the installation process:
Your MySQL Server is too old. Drupal requires at least MySQL 4.1.1. (Currently using MySQL database 4.0.27)
You need a new host anyway
If your web host is still only offering MySQL 4.0, they're offering unsupported software and you should get a new host anyway, Drupal or not. You can also check and see if they offer an upgrade. Some hosts ship MySQL 4.0 by default, but offer an easy way to upgrade your account to 5.0. Definitely take the upgrade. If they don't offer it, then they're a dying host who won't survive in the market anyway so you may as well get a new host sooner rather than later.
The same applies to any host that doesn't offer PHP 5.2.
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Larry Garfield
http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog
http://www.palantir.net
1&1 offers MySQL 5.0 as well
In 1&1 Control Panel:
click Administration Tab
then click MySQL Administration icon
then click New Database button
Version of the new database:
click MySQL 5.0
I can confirm that.
I can confirm that. I've used MySQL 5 with 1and1 since many months ago. (They allow you to choose which version you want when you create new database. 4 or 5.)
All good here too
Am brand new to Drupal and am starting with 6 - used MySQL 5, and had complete success installing it.
Can't say the same about the menu, but installing was at least good! ;)
Sonia Graphics
using - Drupal 6
MySQL out of date
1and1 will not support Drupal 6.0 on Managed Servers because they refuse to upgrade existing databases to MySQL 4.1 or higher. This severely limits them as a hosting service, because most applications require MySQL 4.1 at a minimum, and if one is paying premium hosting charges then one should expect premium features. If they continue with this silly policy I will be forced to switch.
I use one and one and not a probem
I have no problems with one and one
Great news!
Great news!
Thank you Drupal community.
Congratulations and thank you
Congratulations on this milestone and thank you to all who have chipped in to make this possible. I hope to start contributing to the Drupal 7.0 effort
JasonJ
Fantastic!
What an amazing product! Well done and thank you to all who worked so hard on this.
I just installed drupal 6 on a shared host in about 10 minutes! It was so smooth :)
ian
Fantasy Formula 1
Ah grand :)
I would have been here earlier but I was writing bits for the press release with Keith :)
I will have to get the headline I wanted to use for it in somewhere - it's a corker :)
Edit: http://www.kinetasystems.com/blog/millions-of-tiny-blue-aliens-unleashed... :)
Kineta Systems - Web Development in Nottingham
And now, to release 'official' 6.x module releases!
Congratulations, to all Drupal core team members.
I'll start working on the official release of the print module tonight.
João Ventura
Venturas.org
Great work
All I can say is "great work, guys". You real put your heart into this one and I can't wait to migrate my site to this new version! :)
Oceria doesn't know where this -repeatbutton -repeatbutton is....
Congratulations!
.. to all involved in this release! It's a killer one :P
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I <3 Drupal! Thank you guys! I'm looking forward to Views II [I can't wait!].
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Congrats everyone ! D6 is
Congrats everyone ! D6 is great !