#1355526: Add a way to determine the date a module was added so the modules page can use it for sort got committed for D8 and is tagged for backporting with a patch already available for D7 and almost RTBC! So my guess is that this will be in the next official stable 7.16 of Drupal.

It would be nice if we could take advantage of this feature. I guess we'll have to store the date a user last clicked on the "New" tab and compare that to the next time the user clicks it. Then we could show only the modules installed between these two dates.

I realize that we already provide a "New" vertical tab, but I don't know how that one works (the algorithm behind it I mean). I guess we could use this way in order to fall-back to it if the drupal version is smaller than 7.16.

Thanx for considering this one.

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greenskin commented

Boy time flys, finally finding some time to weed through the issue queue.

The "New" tab works by checking the filectime() of each module's .info file and if it's been updated/modified within the last week it will show. The reason I opted for filectime() rather than filemtime() was I didn't want modules showing up in the "New" tab simply because the file was opened and updated; I want it to show only if the file is replaced.

There is a "Recent" tab that displays similarly to the "New" tab, showing modules that have been enabled/disabled within the last week. Perhaps within this tab we could provide a checkbox or some method in which to change the sort. Thoughts?

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smustgrave commented
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