What's new in Drupal 7 Alpha 1 ?

Yesterday, January 15, 2010 was a big day for Drupal. Our beloved CMS became 9 years old! And boy, did it mature well. To celebrate its birthday, Webchick (Angie Byron), Drupal 7's maintainer released the first alpha version of Drupal 7.

Since a lot of people are wondering what's new in version 7, I decided to gather a list where you can find this out.

Where to find out what's new in Drupal 7?

The official Drupal 7.0 Alpha 1 announcement.
The CHANGELOG.txt in the tarball.
My presentation Drupal 7 - What's new (from an end-user perspective) ?.
The list of fixed issues in the Drupal 7 queue.
Webchick's presentations on Drupalcon Paris and DC.

What's new for module developers and themers?

The list of changes for theme developers
The list of changes for module developers
Morten's blog post and presentation Awesomeness redefined: Drupal 7 Theming
pingVision's blog post Drupal 7 theme changes
Katherine Bailey's presentation "JavaScript in Drupal 7: What developers need to know".

My presentation on what's new in Drupal 7

This is a presentation I did a few months ago on a Drupal seminar of the company I work for. Some cosmethic changes have been commited since and the overlay module was added.

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Written on January 16, 2010 at 09:32, tagged as Drupal 7, Drupal

Comments

Davy Van Den Bremt said on January 16, 2010 at 13:04.

Thanks, this is indeed a presentation I did a few months ago, feature wise it's still pretty relevant, but looks have indeed changed. I cleared this up in the post now. Thanks!

seutje (not verified) said on January 16, 2010 at 12:42.

Hey there, nice presentation but some of the material used is a bit outdated.

The toolbar got an extra "home" link, the contextual links now look pretty tight (imo) and the installer now runs in the seven theme

just wanted to clear that up :)

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