Security Vulnerabilities: SA-CORE-2019-003 - Drupal 8 Core, Drupal 7 plugins

SA-CORE-2019-003 - Highly critical - Remote Code Execution

Popular CMS platform Drupal recently announced a highly critical security vulnerability: SA-CORE-2019-003. This vulnerability allows for remote code execution on an exploited server. It is rated Highly Critical and mass exploits are now being reported in the wild!

Debian security update breaks v15.x LAMP based servers!

UPDATE: v15.1 update & bugfix release is now available. New versions of all affected appliances can now be downloaded.

Security Vulnerabilities: SA-CORE-2018-006 - Drupal 7.x & Drupal 8.x

SA-CORE-2018-006 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Drupal 7 & 8

Popular CMS platform Drupal have just announced that versions of Drupal 7 prior to 7.60 and Drupal 8 prior to 8.5.8 and/or 8.6.2 are affected by SA-CORE-2018-006. For more info on the vulnerabilities, please see the relevant Drupal advisory.

Drupal SA-CORE-2018-002 - Highly critical - Remote Code Execution vulnerability

Late last week, the Drupal Security Team announced a "Highly critical" remote code execution vulnerability that affects Drupal 6 (EOL), Drupal 7 and Drupal 8. SA-CORE-2018-002 dubbed "Drupalgeddon2" was discovered by Jasper Mattsson. Drupal scores it a whopping 21 (out of a possible 25) "Security Risk Level". All users are recommended to update their Drupal sites immediately.

TurnKey needs a Drupal Expert Consultant

We are recruiting for someone to take on our website. I'm sure that there are plenty of talented members of our community that might like to apply! So here it is:
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Drupal Expert / Consultant

We're looking for a trustworthy, experienced Drupal expert we can put in charge of maintenance and development for the TurnKey GNU/Linux website.

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Drupal Rules in a nutshell

In a nutshell, Rules is a visual programming tool. Instead of writing code as a block of text, you configure the desired behavior via a GUI that guides you through the setup of "rule sets" which are basically stored procedures that define conditionals and actions to execute, and triggering those rulesets from various canned events.

Rules sets can can call each other immediately (watch out for infinite loops), schedule each other (or themselves) to be called later, etc.

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Transcend the Drupal documentation, use the source Luke!

During the first few months of my Drupal experience I looked for answers to any issues that came up first in the official documentation, then on Google. It's a big Drupal world out there so more often then not I would find someone had come across exactly the same issue before and I could just parrot the solution without necessarily understanding why it worked.

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Smart cache expiration with Drupal Rules

I've been exploring Drupal Rules some more since last week.

We were already using it before to automate the various repetitive tasks involved in creating a new appliance (e.g., creating aliases for the feeds).

Intelligent caching

Now we're also using Rules in conjuction with the Cache Actions module to expire the cache page intelligently so that adding or removing published content expires related page caches immediately.

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Another batch of changes to the TurnKey website

These past few weeks I've been having too much fun offline with my development clone of the TurnKey website, ticking items off of my todo list. Today I finally got around to the complex, tedious, and unfortunately uninteresting task of updating the online version of the website. Ah, a necessary evil I suppose.

On to the changes...

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