Core listings converted to views

Now that Views is provided as a Drupal 8 core module, numerous content listings in core modules have been converted to configurable views, and the one-off, legacy code previously used to generate these listings has been removed.

Note: The following conversions are still in progress:
#1941830: Convert tracker listings to a view
#2207263: Try and build /forum and /forum/{tid} with views
#2020387: Convert "Active forum topics" block to a View
#1986606: Convert the comments administration screen to a view
#1863906: [PP-1] Replace content revision table with a view
#1337018: Convert /aggregator to a view
#2223899: Convert the feed block into a view
#2015149: Replace dblog recent log entries with a view

Converted listings

The following listings are now provided as views.

Administrative pages

• admin/people
• admin/content
• Additionally, a new administrative page for files is provided at admin/content/files.

Content pages

• node (default frontpage)
• taxonomy/term/{taxonomy_term}
• aggregator/sources

RSS feeds

• rss.xml
• aggregator/rss
• aggregator/opml
• taxonomy/term/{taxonomy_term}/feed

Blocks

• Recent content
• Recent comments
• Who's new
• Who's online

Non-Views fallbacks

The Views module is required to provide most content listing features. However, the following views provide fallback pages if Views is not installed.

• The admin/content and admin/people pages provide simple listings without bulk operations or search filters.
• taxonomy/term/{taxonomy_term} pages simply display the taxonomy term entity (without any listing of tagged nodes).

Changed and removed pages

The following duplicate paths were removed:

• admin/content/node
• admin/people/people

API changes

Removed hooks

• hook_node_operations()
• hook_user_operations()

Removed functions

• aggregator_page_rss()
• aggregator_page_opml()
• aggregator_page_sources()
• format_rss_channel()
• format_rss_item()
• node_build_filter_query()
• node_admin_content()
• node_admin_nodes()
• node_admin_nodes_submit()
• node_feed()
• node_filters()
• node_filter_form()
• node_filter_form_submit()
• node_multiple_delete_confirm()
• node_multiple_delete_confirm_submit()
• node_page_default()
• taxonomy_term_feed()
• taxonomy_term_page()
• taxonomy_select_nodes()
• user_admin()
• user_admin_account_submit()
• user_admin_account_validate()
• user_filter_form
• user_filter_form_submit()

Changed functions

• node_mass_update()
  

  Drupal 7

  function node_mass_update($nodes, $updates, $langcode = NULL)

  Drupal 8

  function node_mass_update(array $nodes, array $updates, $langcode = NULL, $load = FALSE)

• user_admin_account() was changed to remove bulk operations.