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Undoubtedly, the biggest days in the Drupal world are the days of major releases. Everyone had been waiting for the release of Drupal 8 like kids at Christmas, then “unwrapped” their present with impatience, and were impressed with its brand-new features! Each feature deserved to be described, which resulted in our collection of Drupal 8 articles to mark its birthday. However, you do not have to wait for so long anymore — the Drupal community now also prepares big gifts in small packages twice a year. They are minor releases, and the latest of them, Drupal 8.3.0, has come out on April 5. In this article, we will take a glance at this new approach to Drupal releases, and, of course, see what makes Drupal 8.3.0 so cool.

Source: New features in Drupal 8.3.0 — Internetdevels official blog

In October of last year the Technical Advisory Committee was formed to evaluate options for the developer tools we use on Drupal.org. The TAC consists of Angie Byron, Moshe Weitzman, and Steve Francia, acting as advisors to Megan Sanicki, the Executive Director of the Drupal Association.

The TAC’s mandate is to recommend a direction for the future of our tools on Drupal.org. Megan will evaluate this recommendation, make a decision, and prioritize that work in the development roadmap of the Drupal Association engineering team.

Source: Technical Advisory Committee Update | Drupal.org

After implementing some larger enterprise Drupal 8 websites, I would like to share some insights, how to solve common issues in the deployment workflow with Drupal 8 CMI.

INTRODUCTION TO DRUPAL CMI

First of all, you need to understand, how the configuration management in Drupal 8 works. CMI allows you to export all configurations and its dependencies from the database into yml text files. To make sure, you never end up in an inconsistent state, CMI always exports everything. By default, you cannot exclude certain configurations.

Source: Advanced Drupal 8 Configuration Management (CMI) Workflows – Liip Blog