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Release notes

This is a hot-fix to alpha5 in order to fix problems on Windows. It also includes the initial migrate in core patch.

Changes since 8.0-alpha5:

  • Revert "Issue #1954892 by dawehner, tim.plunkett, David_Rothstein, effulgentsia: Replace 'theme callback' and hook_custom_theme() with a clean theme negotiation system."
  • #2054055 by seanr: Bartik inappropriately styles all links in the footer, rather than links inside blocks in the footer, breaking contextual links in the process.
  • #2115061 by JeroenT, tim.plunkett: Remove direct calls to drupal_add_html_head_link().
  • #2099133 by Wim Leers: Comment form on same page as comments forces node render caching to be per user.
  • Migrate in core #2125717 by mikeryan, chx, marvil07, bdone, jessehs, mpgeek, BTMash, fastangel, mongolito404, Moshe Weitzman, eliza411, YesCT, dawehner, cosmicdreams
  • Rollback of Issue #2138239 by damiankloip, tim.plunkett, amateescu: Use GlobIterator instead of glob. — breaks testbot. /li>
  • Revert "Issue #2138239 by damiankloip, tim.plunkett, amateescu: Use GlobIterator instead of glob."
  • #2138239 by damiankloip, tim.plunkett, amateescu: Use GlobIterator instead of glob.
  • #2120035 by samhassell, dawehner: Clean up docs headers for views include files
  • #213887 by Xano: Fix up PluginBag documentation
  • #2102777 by tstoeckler, Gábor Hojtsy: Fix docs for update to theme_links
  • #2111823 by amateescu, dawehner: Convert field_ui / Entity local tasks to YAML definitions.
  • #2139407 by amateescu: HEAD broken on Windows.
  • #1851018 by alexpott, attiks, xjm: Improve breakpoint configuration implementation.
  • #2004086 by dawehner, pwolanin, katbailey, tim.plunkett, vijaycs85, fabpot: The Request service must be synthetic.
  • #1954892 by dawehner, tim.plunkett, David_Rothstein, effulgentsia: Replace 'theme callback' and hook_custom_theme() with a clean theme negotiation system (rollback).

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Created by: catch
Created on: 22 Nov 2013 at 20:44 UTC
Last updated: 18 Oct 2019 at 22:21 UTC
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