Releases for Feeds

Hotfix for incorrect Drupal 10.1 compatibility

This is a corrective release. Versions 8.x-3.0-rc1 through 8.x-3.0 mistakenly claimed Drupal 10.1 compatibility. To restore proper support, several changes (including Drupal 11-related updates) have been reverted. This release is therefore compatible with Drupal 10 only.
A follow-up release will restore those changes and will require Drupal 10.2.

CSV template, backwards compatibility fixes

In this release a feature is added to download a CSV template: this means that after you mapped a list of CSV sources on the mapping page, on the feed page you can download a CSV file where on the first row you'll get the CSV column names that you have configured. This is a feature that already existed in the D7 version of Feeds, but that is now finally completed for the modern Drupal version.

There is also a backwards compatibility fix for something that could cause errors after updating from 8.x-3.0-beta5 or earlier (only if you had unfinished imports when updating).

Drupal 11 support; FeedsAnnotationFactory removed; new "feeds.state_factory" service

This release adds compatibility with Drupal 11 and drops support for Drupal 9.

Other notable changes:

• The FeedsAnnotationFactory class is removed. It was deprecated since Feeds 8.x-3.0-alpha6.
• The PubSubHubbub feature is disabled in the UI because it is broken. See #3341361: PubSubHubbub is using removed Guzzle dependencies.
• Lots of PHPStan issues were fixed, including dependency injection issues. In theory this could cause issues in code that extend classes from Feeds, most likely when overriding constructors.
• A new service is added called "feeds.state_factory". Code that creates instances of \Drupal\feeds\State in the form of new State(); need to be updated. It is more likely this happens in automated tests, because usually State objects are created by Feeds itself. See also the change record.

Skippable entity validation; prevent indefinitely growing filesystem; last D9 supported release

Entity validation can now be skipped

On the feed type you can now configure to skip entity validation during an import. This can for example be useful if you have a required field on an entity type, but you want to ignore that during a feed import. You can choose to skip all validations or only validations of a certain type. To ignore required fields, select the validation type "NotNull".

Indefinitely growing filesystem on a failed http fetch

When fetching a http resource fails with a 404, Feeds retries to fetch the resource on every cron run. There was a bug that caused the filesystem to grow during this process. That bug is now fixed. However, the issue that Feeds retries to fetch the same resource over and over again remains.

Next release: Drupal 11 support will be added, Drupal 9 support will be dropped

This is the last Drupal 9 compatible Feeds release. Next release will focus on making Feeds compatible with Drupal 11 and support for Drupal 9 will be dropped in that process.

Big changes: New Feeds Log module, Drupal 10 support

New Feeds Log module!

A module is added to Feeds with which you can track your imports. It lets you see in detail which items were created or updated and which one failed.
See the video for a quick introduction:
https://youtu.be/P3ipggf5Irs

Other notable additions and changes

• Multiple feeds to update the same content
• Locks gets automatically extended after 12 hours
• Feed objects are no longer serialized on the queue
• Revision support

PHP 8.1 support; Book target; Catch EmptyFeedException on cron imports

This release adds support for PHP 8.1. It also adds a new target for importing books for the core book module.

An important bug was fixed that would cause filling up the log: an EmptyFeedException was not being catched on cron imports. This could happen when using the Download (http) fetcher. The more serious part of the bug was that the import task was being kept on the queue, possibly causing concurrent imports to happen for the same feed. Concurrent imports are especially bad when using the feature to delete or unpublish items that are no longer provided by the source.

Drupal 9.3 compatibility; updating only existing content feature; temporary target; entity reference target refactored

This release adds compatibility with Drupal 9.3, replacing Zend components with Laminas components. This release is still compatible with Drupal 8, though the version requirement has been raised to Drupal 8.9 (the previous release required at least Drupal 8.8).

There are also a few new features in this release, among them are a feature to only updating content and a feature to map a source to a temporary target.

Improvements for field validation issues; account switch to the feed author or user 1; better PHP 7.2+ support; feeds_alter() removed.

Compatibility with Drupal 9

There are no big changes in this release, but when you update from 8.x-3.0-alpha6 or earlier, be sure to read the release notes from 8.x-3.0-alpha7, because that release introduced some BC breaks.

The most important changes in this release are:

• FeedsAnnotationFactory got deprecated
• Three new events
• Base class for transforming data after parsing: AfterParseBase

This release also contains some minor UX improvements. For example, during a cron import you can now track progress on the feed page.

This release requires at least Drupal 8.6.0. The next release will require at least Drupal 8.7.0.

This release contains some small bug fixes and one new feature: for timestamp targets (like 'Authored on' and 'created') date strings are now accepted as source (previously it only accepted integers).

In this release lots of bugs have been fixed, including ones that did cause fatal errors!

One of the bugs that were fixed was that deleting a field used in mapping caused the mapping page and the import to crash. This is fixed by declaring dependencies on fields that are used in mapping. Be sure to run database updates so all your feed types get these dependencies calculated.

There are also two big new features in this release:

1. A generic content entity processor, allowing you to import content for a whole lot more content entity types!
2. FeedsSource plugins, with which you can add in additional sources, above the "main" source.

In this release a big issue is fixed: downloaded content is no longer cached in the database! An other improvement is that you can now see on the import page when Feeds will run the next import. For this release there is also a small chance of a backwards compatibility break if you use a custom fetcher. Read on for more details.

YES! Feeds finally supports translation of fields using Entity translation! Also new in this release is support for updating existing items only and for the CSV parser an option is added to convert the character encoding of the CSV file to UTF-8.

This is a security release. People running 7.x-2.0-alpha8 or below should update. This release only contains security fixes, no additional bug fixes or features.

Changes since 7.x-2.0-alpha8:

• #2495145 by twistor, cashwilliams, greggles, klausi: Possible XSS in PuSHSubscriber.inc
• #2502419 by klausi: Log messages XSS attack vector
• #1848498 by twistor: Respect allowed file extensions in file mapper

DO NOT USE THIS BRANCH.

This is a minimal port from 7.x to 8.x.

This release is so that we can run tests on the port.

Here's the changelog:

The big news is:

Fixed some fatal errors responsible for breaking automated tests. This release contains a lot of bugfixes, check CHANGELOG.txt for the full list.

Changes since 7.x-2.0-alpha3:

• #940866 tristanoneil: PHP 5.3 FeedsImporter::copy function must be compatible.
• #944986 tristanoneil: Link Mapper Upgrade.
• #959066 tristanoneil: Remove old mappers and tests.
• #883342 Steven Jones: Don't force usage of cURL.
• #776854 imclean et. al.: Support parsing CSV files without column headers.
• Ian Ward: ensure that arrays of numerics are handled correctly.
• #953728 tristanoneil: Upgrade text formats, use on all processors.
• alex_b: Fix file mapper, add file mapper tests, generate flickr.xml and files.csv dynamically.
• #953538 yhahn: Remove BOM from UTF-8 files. Adds sanitizeFile() and sanitizeRaw() methods to FeedsFetcherResult. Extending classes that override either the getRaw() or getFilePath() methods should call these sanitization methods to ensure that the returned output / file has been cleaned for parsing.
• #606612 alex_b: More detailed log.

• Upgrade to Drupal 7.
• Expand batch support to fetchers and parsers. Drastically lowers memory consumption for large CSV imports.
• Support batching through directories on disk.
• All tests passing.

This release is the first usable upgrade from Drupal 6. It also brings full batch support for fetching and parsing with a series of API changes. This is the reason why we branched to 2.x.

Maintainers of plugins

If you are a maintainer of a third party plugin for Feeds, make sure to carefully read these release notes and upgrade your module accordingly. Expect further changes to the API until we reach beta phase.

Dependencies

• Use CTools from the Development Seed fork on GithHub
• Use the latest release of Job Scheduler for Drupal 7

Change log

• #925842 alex_b: Support batching through directories on disk.
• #625196 mstrelan, alex_b: Fix array_merge(), array_intersect_key() warnings.
• Remove hidden setting feeds_worker_time. Use hook_cron_queue_info_alter() to modify this setting.
• #744660-80 alex_b: Expand batch support to fetchers and parsers.

Drupal 7 upgrade. Unstable.

• Expire files returned by FeedsImportBatch after DRUPAL_MAXIMUM_TEMP_FILE_AGE seconds.
• FeedsFileFetcher: track uploaded files, delete unused files.
• yhahn: Upgrade FeedsTaxonomyProcessor.
• Remove handling of target items that are array. All target items must be

objects now.

• Upgrade file and image mapper.
• Upgrade taxonomy mapper.
• Upgrade field mapper.
• Move plugin handling into FeedsPlugin class.
• Base level upgrade.

This release fixes a series of bugs that occurred with the beta 6 version of Feeds.