So we have new, a maintenance release that fixes problems reported before, aslo security vulnerabilities is now available for download.

Please also not that this security problems not applicable to sites running on Drupal 5.

According to off.site:

Upgrading your existing Drupal 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in this release, but we fixed some notable performance issues too. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement.

You can get your copy [HERE]

Its been long wait, but second release candidate of 6 line is here! you can download it here: http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.0-rc2.tar.gz

There are still known issues, that being solved rigt now but before that:

we have fixed various issues including the security fixes that come with Drupal 5.6 and others involving caching filtered content, menu item inheritance, missing breadcrumbs, better error reporting in the installer and updates, some translatability issues and lots of code style cleanups, and other small fixes.

The most notable usability improvement since Drupal 6.0 RC1 is that the files directory is now automatically created in sites/default.

Developers promise to release Drupal 6 asap

It is strongly recomended that you update your site right now! There are no new features in these installments only bugfixes.

Drupal 4.7.11 and 5.6 are now available for download. These are maintenance releases that fix problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilities.

Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is strongly recommended.

See download links here: http://drupal.org/drupal-5.6

As you know, CMS drupal participates in “Google Highly Open Participation Contest” (if you dont, you can read it here, or if you’re lazy, listen here)

They already got 54 students completing tasks from Drupal project, so far 67 have been completed but there are still 97 task slots remaining.

There are fewer than 3 weeks left to propose tasks and fewer than 5 weeks left of the contest, so they call for help.

So:

Students may claim tasks until January 22, 2008, which means a couple of days before that is the last date that we can create tasks.

The contest formally ends on February 4, 2008. A few days after that, they’ll choose a grand prize winner who will make the scenic trek to Google Campus along with a member of the Drupal community!

You can view completed tasks here: http://drupal.org/node/205806

The Drupal Association just made announcement that new 2008 Drupalcon will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA from March 3 - 6, 2008 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

This time they are planing to handle 700 guests, they will try to arrange some cross-event access to AIIM International Exposition & Conference (the largest content management technology conference in North America)

Registrations are not open yet, but you can keep eye on http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/ and start packing already.

According to Google Trends, Drupal is not even near to Joomla.

Drupal should do better job if they want to be there at all at the first place.

http://google.com/trends?q=drupal%2C+joomla

It’s a new tradition, developers and users compile list (trough comments) of predictions for Drupal and at the end of each year check to see what was right, what was wrong and what was unforeseen.

You can join them and write your own prediction for drupal, who knows meybe you’re next Nostradamus or something…

To see what was right, wrong and unforseen, also to submit own prediction visit: http://drupal.org/node/204454