diff -u b/core/modules/node/config/views.view.frontpage.yml b/core/modules/node/config/views.view.frontpage.yml
--- b/core/modules/node/config/views.view.frontpage.yml
+++ b/core/modules/node/config/views.view.frontpage.yml
@@ -32,27 +32,9 @@
           id: node_listing_empty
           label: ''
           relationship: none
-          table: views
+          table: node
       exposed_form:
         type: basic
-      fields:
-        title:
-          alter:
-            absolute: '0'
-            alter_text: '0'
-            ellipsis: '0'
-            html: '0'
-            make_link: '0'
-            strip_tags: '0'
-            trim: '0'
-            word_boundary: '0'
-          empty_zero: '0'
-          field: title
-          hide_empty: '0'
-          id: title
-          label: ''
-          link_to_node: '1'
-          table: node
       filters:
         promote:
           admin_label: ''
diff -u b/core/modules/node/node.views.inc b/core/modules/node/node.views.inc
--- b/core/modules/node/node.views.inc
+++ b/core/modules/node/node.views.inc
@@ -418,6 +418,14 @@
     ),
   );
 
+  $data['node']['node_listing_empty'] = array(
+    'title' => t('Empty Node Frontpage behavior'),
+    'help' => t('Provides a link to the node add overview page and changes the title.'),
+    'area' => array(
+      'id' => 'node_listing_empty',
+    ),
+  );
+
   // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
   // Content revision table
 
@@ -678,19 +686,6 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * Implements hook_views_data_alter().
- */
-function node_views_data_alter(&$data) {
-  $data['views']['node_listing_empty'] = array(
-    'title' => t('Empty Node Frontpage behavior'),
-    'help' => t('Provides a link to the node add overview page and changes the title.'),
-    'area' => array(
-      'id' => 'node_listing_empty'
-    )
-  );
-}
-
-/**
  * Implements hook_preprocess_node().
  */
 function node_row_node_view_preprocess_node(&$vars) {
reverted:
--- b/core/modules/views/theme/views-view-rss.tpl.php
+++ a/core/modules/views/theme/views-view-rss.tpl.php
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
  */
 ?>
 <?php print "<?xml"; ?> version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" <?php print "?>"; ?>
-
 <rss version="2.0" xml:base="<?php print $link; ?>"<?php print $namespaces; ?>>
   <channel>
     <title><?php print $title; ?></title>