drupal-timeline.json

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    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2025-01-15T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal CMS 1.0 is released",
    "username": "pameeela",
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    "href": "https://celebratedrupal.org//",
    "description": "Drupal CMS collects all the best modules and their configurations into a product thats very usable out of the box.",
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    "date": "2024-8-4T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 11 is released",
    "username": "e0ipso",
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    "href": "https://new.drupal.org/about/11",
    "description": "Recipes, Workspaces, and Single-Directory Components are launched. They represent a significant shift in how developers and site builders work with Drupal and set the stage for even more significant improvements in future releases. Recipes simplify configurations, Workspaces elevate content collaboration, and Single-Directory Components streamline theme management.",
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    "date": "2022-12-14T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 10 is released",
    "username": "mherchel",
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    "href": "https://www.drupal10party.com/",
    "description": "Claro administration theme and Olivero default theme, the introduction of CKEditor 5, further jQuery replacements, theme starterkit tools for theme creation, and Symfony 6 under the hood with PHP 8.1 requirement.",
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    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2020-11-26T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "PHP 8 is released",
    "username": "wiifm",
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    "href": "https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php",
    "description": "PHP 8.0 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features and optimizations including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, JIT, and improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency.",
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    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2020-11-10T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Code contribution via issue forks",
    "username": "drumm",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-3064-1411911925.png?itok=IepxMjFK",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/git/using-git-to-contribute-to-drupal/creating-issue-forks-and-merge-requests",
    "description": "Drupal contributors may now collaborate [using git branches and merge requests](https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/git/using-git-to-contribute-to-drupal/creating-issue-forks-and-merge-requests). Until this day, code collaboration on drupal.org featured uploaded patch files.",
    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2020-10-24T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Composer 2.0 released",
    "username": "seldaek",
    "avatar": "https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/183678?s=460&u=5c0668a9af3d21ce3153666e4546d881216346bf&v=4",
    "href": "https://blog.packagist.com/composer-2-0-is-now-available/",
    "description": "The package manager that assembles virtually all modern Drupal sites gets a significant performance and memory utilization boost. Developer productivity and mood noticeably improve.",
    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2018-01-18T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Umami install profile improves out of the box experience",
    "username": "markconroy",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-336910-1516969518.jpg?itok=NCoP4b7E",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/project/ideas/issues/2847582",
    "thumbnail": "https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/Captura%20de%20pantalla%202018-01-23%20a%20les%2020.27.29_0.png",
    "description": "Drupal's initial experience goes from a boring river of news to a food magazine replete with tasty looking recipes. This fine meal was cooked by the Out of the Box Initiative led by kjay, markconroy, smaz, and laurii. It shows all of Drupal's spices working together: design, product management, engineering and accessibility.",
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    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2020-07-14T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupalcon Global",
    "username": "betalister",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-2516588-1549310508.jpg?itok=83SUF_B4",
    "href": "https://events.drupal.org/global2020",
    "description": "Amidst a pandemic, the *Open Source Digital experience conference* itself becomes a digital experience. Speakers, attendees, and sponsors enjoy the interactive chat and video features powered by [Hopin](https://hopin.to/).",
    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2020-06-03T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 9.0 released",
    "username": "xjm",
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    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/9.0.0",
    "description": "The first Drupal release with no new functionality - and that's great! Drupal 9 has the same functionality as Drupal 8.9, but without a lot of backward compatibility code. The [release parties](https://celebratedrupal.org/) were virtual, as this happened during the times of Covid.",
    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2017-03-08T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal changes backwards compatibility policy after 16 years",
    "username": "catch",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/default-avatar.png?itok=pCwA0iJh",
    "href": "https://dri.es/making-drupal-upgrades-easy-forever",
    "description": "Drupal was doing [Move Fast and Break Things](https://www.cnet.com/news/zuckerberg-move-fast-and-break-things-isnt-how-we-operate-anymore/) a few years before Facebook. New features were routinely committed to Drupal without backward compatibility. Recognizing its large installed base, Drupal announces that all changes must be backward compatible, and that major version upgrades will be easy forever.",
    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2016-10-06T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "PHP 7 is released",
    "username": "dstogov",
    "avatar": "https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/2510034?s=460&v=4",
    "href": "https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/php-25/#e_2015_12_03",
    "description": "A major language renewal comes with the new Zend Engine 3 ([PHPNG](https://wiki.php.net/phpng)), It’s also twice as fast as the previous PHP 5.6 release.",
    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2016-05-14T00:23:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal Diversity & Inclusion Founded",
    "username": "sparklingrobots",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupaldiversity.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/DSC_2303.JPG",
    "href": "https://www.drupaldiversity.com",
    "description": "After a DrupalCon New Orleans session on diversity led by [Nikki Stevens](https://www.drupal.org/u/drnikki) and [Karyn Cassio](https://www.drupal.org/u/techgirlgeek), [Drupal Diversity & Inclusion](https://drupaldiversity.com) was founded by Nikki Stevens and members of the community to advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.",
    "comment": ""
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  {
    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2016-05-11T00:23:00+00:00",
    "title": "Cheney-Strauss Unofficial Drupalcon After Party",
    "username": "populist",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-58600-1422565687.jpg?itok=57vVFDBk",
    "href": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8",
    "description": "Drupal's fun/art side thrives at these late night Drupalcon parties. This year Drupalers chatted among fire throwers and wild art installations at the [Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus](https://chewbacchus.org/) in New Orleans.",
    "comment": ""
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  {
    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2015-11-15T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 8.0 released",
    "username": "alexpott",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/default-avatar.png?itok=pCwA0iJh",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/8",
    "description": "Five years in the making, Drupal 8 embraces objects and declarative configuration. Entity API, Twig, and Accessibility are the talk at the [Celebr8 worldwide release parties](http://celebratedrupal8.com/).",
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    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2015-09-08T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Cache API boosts Drupal 8 performance",
    "username": "wimleers",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-99777-1554700990.jpg?itok=YmwkNAn-",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2429617",
    "description": "wimleers and fabianx rescue Drupal 8 performance with an API where Drupal caches rendered content, varying the keys as specified by a developer. Cache tags precisely invalidate related content as edits are submitted.",
    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2015-04-09T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "drupal-project demonstrates how to assemble a codebase via Composer",
    "username": "webflo",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-254778-1401407005.jpg?itok=xYGJ89TH",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/8",
    "description": "webflo showed the world how to build a Drupal codebase with Composer. Prior to this day some sites assembled code with Drush Make. drupal.org later built upon this work for its Packagist facade and Composer templates.",
    "comment": ""
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  {
    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2015-05-12T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupalcon Prenote",
    "username": "horncologne",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-76919-1406126613.jpg?itok=31EzJnh6",
    "href": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zvCOKzY3kA",
    "description": "jam & robertDouglass wake us up for an infotainment extravaganza featuring sing-a-longs; bad jokes; Git tutorials, yodelling, use of alphabet, or beer pouring technique. On this day we belted out a Drupal flavored Let it Go from Frozen.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2015-03-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal core governance overhaul for project sustainability",
    "username": "Dries",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-1-1401055330.jpg?itok=E9No1cHd",
    "href": "https://groups.drupal.org/node/462713",
    "description": "Drupal had always relied on a single release manager to review and merge core changes. On this day Drupal embraces multiple committer roles and adds a process for adding new committers. In 2020 are about a dozen core committers.",
    "comment": ""
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  {
    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2014-10-31T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Australian government standardizes on Drupal. ",
    "username": "kimpepper",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-370574-1401256170.jpg?itok=3VEDVAEv",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/project/govcms  ",
    "description": "govCMS embodies Drupal's popularity with [governments all over the world](https://groups.drupal.org/government-sites).",
    "comment": ""
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  {
    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "SA-CORE-2014-005 - Drupal core - SQL injection",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/forum/newsletters/security-advisories-for-drupal-core/2014-10-15/sa-core-2014-005-drupal-core-sql",
    "description": "Many thousands of Drupal sites are compromised by Drupal core's first major security vulnerability.",
    "comment": ""
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  {
    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2013-12-05T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 8 gets semver, minor release scheduling, and beta requirements policy",
    "username": "xjm",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-65776-1401232682.jpg?itok=5VZxTbDk",
    "href": "https://dri.es/the-next-step-for-drupal-8-is-a-beta",
    "description": "Drupal core adopts semantic versioning and a sustainable, predictable minor release schedule.",
    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2012-06-01T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Symfony components merged into Drupal",
    "username": "Crell",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-26398-1400198420.jpg?itok=9SVGQxyz",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/1463656",
    "description": "Crell leads a push to replace Drupal's bootstrap with Symfony flavored request handling. This large change nearly assassinated Drupal 8, but the mighty Drop prevailed",
    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2011-10-11T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Issue following replaces 'subscribe'",
    "username": "dww",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-46549-1402088724.png?itok=zoNlDNJF",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/news-and-announcements/2011-10-11/stop-subscribing-start-following",
    "description": "Before this change, it was customary to post a comment with only the word <em>subscribe</em> in order to start following an issue. Unfortunately, this marked the issue as new and spammed all other followers. This practice ended when the community used Chip-In to fund a flag module implementation.",
    "comment": ""
  },
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    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2011-03-10T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupalcon Trivia Night",
    "username": "alanburke",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-35997-1401262741.jpg?itok=KZa7uYB2",
    "href": "https://chicago2011.drupal.org/forum/drupalcon-trivia-night",
    "description": "Alan Burke proposes an in-person, team based trivia contest on the last night of Drupalcon Chicago. Drupalers have a jolly time, nobody recalls who wins, and Irish Drupal hosts many more trivia nights.",
    "comment": ""
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  {
    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2011-03-08T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal celebrates its 10 Anniversary in style",
    "username": "farriss",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-118406-1426779937.jpg?itok=_u0gNFen",
    "href": "https://dri.es/album/drupalcon-chicago-2011/opening-party-at-field-museum-1",
    "description": "Drupalcon Chicago culminates in a dinner party at the Field Museum of Natural History. Dining with us in the main hall is Sue, the world's most complete Tyrannosaurus rex. Kudos to Tiffany and George from Palantir for a great Drupalcon and party.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2011-03-07T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal Watchdog print magazine",
    "username": "jeremy",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-409-1439386605.jpg?itok=zQmqW0YV",
    "href": "http://www.drupalwatchdog.net/about",
    "description": "Drupalcon attendees open their tote bags and find Drupal Watchdog magazine, the first print magazine dedicated entirely to Drupal. The first issue features Dries on the cover. Tag1, the publisher, makes the magazine available for purchase in bookstores in 2014. The name comes from Drupal's hook_watchdog function.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2011-01-06T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Automated testing for Drupal Core and Contrib",
    "username": "boombatower",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-214218-1400198420.jpg?itok=CtFmQed6",
    "href": "https://git.drupalcode.org/project/simpletest/-/commit/c0d244ada87809a5e809b2a872370c9139cd6b88",
    "description": "After 7 years in Contrib, the simpletest module is added in Drupal 7, along with a substantial test suite. [qa.drupal.org](https://qa.drupal.org/) and then [DrupalCI](https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/drupal-ci) ensure that each patch passes tests before merging. [Drupal Test Traits](https://gitlab.com/weitzman/drupal-test-traits) later brings this framework to client sites. Other major contributors here were [chx](https://www.drupal.org/u/chx), [rfay](https://www.drupal.org/u/rfay), and [Sun](https://www.drupal.org/u/sun).",
    "comment": ""
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  {
    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2011-01-06T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 7.0 released",
    "href": "https://groups.drupal.org/plan-Drupal-7-release-party",
    "username": "webchick",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-24967-1400198420.png?itok=4z5iRr5b",
    "description": "More than [250 parties in over 90 countries](https://groups.drupal.org/plan-Drupal-7-release-party) were held to celebrate this great release. Drupal 7 is still the most popular Drupal release, featuring the Seven theme, designed by [Mark Boulton](https://markboulton.co.uk/) and [Leisa Reichelt](https://au.linkedin.com/in/leisareichelt).",
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    "comment": ""
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    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2011-08-08T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Core Office Hours and DrupalCon Mentoring",
    "username": "yesCT",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-258568-1488543869.png?itok=bXbUCiQB",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/news-and-announcements/2011-08-08/core-office-hours",
    "description": "xjm and catch begin leading core office hours on IRC 12 hours apart, providing global coverage. This generous spirit soon manifests at DrupalCon Denver as the first Core Mentoring contribution day, where new contributors are guided through their first core issue. YesCT later leads this effort.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2010-02-05T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal development moves from CVS to Git",
    "username": "sdboyer",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-146719-1405525313.png?itok=8xwVrs83",
    "href": "https://groups.drupal.org/node/48818",
    "description": "[webchick](https://www.drupal.org/u/webchick) opens a [two week discussion assessing bzr and git for our next VCS](https://groups.drupal.org/node/48818). Then she reviews the discussion and announces that Git has been chosen. This is how bike sheds are overcome. The initiative is named the The Great Git Migration, and involves integration of several drupal modules, and even a custom SSH daemon to handle drupal.org high load. [sdboyer](https://www.drupal.org/u/sdboyer) leads the initiative, and receives help from lots of people on the implementation. Among them are [chizu](https://www.drupal.org/u/chizu), [dww](https://www.drupal.org/u/dww), [eliza411](https://www.drupal.org/u/eliza411), [halstead](https://www.drupal.org/u/halstead), [marvil07](https://www.drupal.org/u/marvil07), [mikey_p](https://www.drupal.org/u/mikey_p), [mikl](https://www.drupal.org/u/mikl), [neclimdul](https://www.drupal.org/u/neclimdul), and [tizzo](https://www.drupal.org/u/tizzo).",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2010-04-19T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Certified to Rock web service launches",
    "href": "https://twitter.com/certifiedtorock",
    "username": "coltrane",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-91990-1450304755.jpg?itok=0xZcLlTh",
    "description": "Certified To Rock is a new form of certification built to match the unique nature of the Drupal community. Give back more, and your score rises.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2010-01-10T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Open Atrium distro by Development Seed",
    "username": "yhahn",
    "avatar": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2533427888/eo5j5htdpe602mtasyk8.jpeg",
    "href": "https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fc/e0/61/fce0616444182df747d3aa673e4b3b4a.png",
    "description": "An early distro, and a shining light in terms of visual design, user experience, and software architecture.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2009-10-24T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "whitehouse.gov relaunches on Drupal",
    "href": "https://dri.es/whitehouse-gov-using-drupal",
    "username": "whitehouse",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-2356044-1438715173.jpg?itok=Co8w2Kde",
    "description": "Barack Obama's administration launches [whitehouse.gov](https://www.whitehouse.gov) and [We the People](https://www.drupal.org/project/petitions), a site where constituents can directly petition the White House for change. The projects are [featured at Drupalcon San Francisco](https://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/open-source-government.html).",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2009-09-25T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Pressflow friendly fork adds DB replication and reverse proxy caching",
    "href": "http://www.pressflow.org/",
    "username": "david strauss",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-93254-1565639110.jpg?itok=Do8go21I",
    "description": "David Strauss and collaborators maintain a distribution that helps Drupal scale. Their improvements are later incorporated into Drupal 7.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2009-08-27T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Localize.drupal.org starts",
    "href": "https://localize.drupal.org/node/54",
    "username": "Gábor Hojtsy",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-4166-1591361209.jpg?itok=8M19ha2V",
    "description": "Launch of this new central web-based translation service meant a great leap towards community collaboration on more consistent, higher quality UI translations for all Drupal projects.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2009-06-09T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drush becomes stand-alone tool with 2.0 release",
    "username": "greg1anderson",
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    "date": "2007-12-12T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Sun Microsystems bails out drupal.org",
    "username": "Amazon",
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    "description": "Drupal.org becomes too popular for its home grown web hosting, and starts throwing errors regularly. Sun Microsystems donates its servers and restores stability to our home.",
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    "date": "2007-11-30T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Acquia is announced to the world",
    "username": "batsonjay",
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    "href": "https://dri.es/acquia-my-drupal-startup",
    "description": "Acquia, a startup by Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson, announces its intention to offer commercial support and hosting for Drupal. Acquia continues to be the largest sponsor of Drupal development, and its largest web hosting platform.",
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    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2007-11-03T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Bay Area Drupal Camp (BADCamp) meets at UC Berkeley",
    "username": "jenlampton",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-85586-1448401745.png?itok=9yG7qIZ3",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/events/2007-10-06/bay-area-drupal-camp-badcamp-07-nov-3rd-4th",
    "description": "This large, annual event remains free to this day. Kudos to Jen Lampton for her many years of organizing. Other notable Camps include Design 4 Drupal, Drupal Dev Days, Frontend United, and Midwest Developer Summit",
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    "date": "2007-01-17T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 5.0 is released",
    "username": "drumm",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-3064-1411911925.png?itok=IepxMjFK",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/news-and-announcements/2007-01-15/drupal-50-released",
    "description": "This release incorporates jQuery, a young open source project. Drupal's support helps jQuery gain attention and then it rises to huge popularity. jQuery adds a second license (MIT+GPL) at Drupal's request. This release also introduces install profiles and a web based installer.",
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  {
    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2006-11-11T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal projects gain a formal release system",
    "username": "dww",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-46549-1402088724.png?itok=zoNlDNJF",
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    "description": "Drupal contributed projects are able to make tagged releases, ending the era of date-based tarballs and CVS projects inside SVN checkouts. The release system built on prior work to [partition commit access by project owner](https://www.drupal.org/node/63648).",
    "comment": ""
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    "date": "2006-11-06T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Views module is released",
    "username": "merlinofchaos",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-26979-1449616925.jpg?itok=jJK4hf0A",
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    "description": "merlinofchaos introduces Views, a list builder/layout UI. Many modules quickly plug into Views both as data providers and layout providers. Along with CCK, these form the early beating heart of Drupal. Views graduates into Drupal core with D8.",
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  },
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    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2006-09-01T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal Association formalizes governance and money management",
    "username": "jredding",
    "avatar": "https://engage.acquia.com/sites/default/files/styles/small_card/public/2020-10/Jacob%20Redding%20(BW).png?itok=kQg2E33M",
    "href": "https://dri.es/drupal-association-launched",
    "description": "Drupal's governance formalizes from BDFL to a non-profit model. Led by Jacob Redding, VZW is initially a money manager only. Drupal VZW transforms into the Drupal Association in 2011 and becomes more prominent in promoting Drupal and runs Drupalcon.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2006-05-01T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 4.7 is released with a Form API",
    "username": "killes",
    "avatar": "https://profile-images.xing.com/images/2c256d32a43988aec0c18806f1ccea01-2/gerhard-killesreiter.1024x1024.jpg",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/news-and-announcements/2006-05-01/drupal-470-released",
    "description": "The new Form API by Adrian Rossouw strengthens Drupal's secure-by-default approach. XSS protections, validation of choices, and only processing POST data that was actually on the form.",
    "thumbnail": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/weitzman/drupal-timeline/assets/4.7.png",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2006-02-07T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Content Creation Kit (CCK) brings a UI for adding custom fields.",
    "username": "yched",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-39567-1401268939.jpg?itok=oADgCk3p",
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    "description": "CCK was incorporated into Drupal 7 as the Field API. JonBob led a session about it at very first Drupalcon, and made the first iteration in Flexinode module. yched and KarenS evolved that work into CCK.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2006-02-06T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "groups.drupal.org is launched",
    "username": "moshe weitzman",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-23-1400198420.jpg?itok=oHubZd8u",
    "href": "https://groups.drupal.org/helloworld",
    "description": "Moshe Weitzman introduced this portal for local user groups to have an online rallying place. Groups helped the Drupal community grow tighter, and helped newbies climb its learning curve. Later led by joshk, greggles, and ezra-g.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 4,
    "date": "2006-01-11T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Lullabot podcast is launched",
    "username": "jjeff",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-17190-1424189961.jpg?itok=kaXfcZby",
    "href": "https://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast/drupal-podcast-no-1",
    "description": "This podcast, founded by Jeff Robbins, still runs today. This marks a growth in the marketing and communication of Drupal.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 3,
    "date": "2005-12-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Building Online Communities book is published",
    "username": "robertdouglass",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-5449-1400197006.jpg?itok=QCY5ImU5",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/news-and-announcements/2005-12-23/my-drupal-book-has-arrived",
    "description": "Robert Douglass authors the first Drupal book, recognizing a growing demand for Drupal education.Later popular books include Pro Drupal Development, Cracking Drupal ([greggles](https://www.drupal.org/u/greggles)), and High Performance Drupal ([nnewton](https://www.drupal.org/u/nnewton), [catch](https://www.drupal.org/u/catch), [jeffsheltren](https://www.drupal.org/u/jeffsheltren)).",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2005-08-01T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal security team is formed",
    "username": "chx",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-9446-1439655464.jpg?itok=OwaItTH7",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/drupal-security-team",
    "description": "This volunteer team is first led by chx. The team dutifully protects Drupal core and all the contrib modules that opt into its coverage. Future leaders would be [Heine](https://www.drupal.org/u/heine), [greggles](https://www.drupal.org/u/greggles), and [mlhess](https://www.drupal.org/u/mlhess).",
    "comment": "@todo exact date"
  },
  {
    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2005-02-24T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "First Drupalcon held in Antwerp",
    "username": "jvandyk",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-2375-1476405435.jpg?itok=EwzjODeO",
    "href": "https://www.drupal.org/developer-sprint-antwerp-2005",
    "description": "Drupal enthusiasts meet in person for the first time. Amazingly, 45 people fly to Antwerp from all over the globe. [Marc Canter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter) (Macromedia founder) and Chris Messina (aka [FactoryJoe](https://www.drupal.org/user/11639), later invented the #hashtag) attended. [Photos by Dries](https://dri.es/album/drupalcon-antwerp-2005/).",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2003-05-01T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Deanspace provides Drupal tools for supporters of USA presidential candidate Howard Dean",
    "username": "zacker",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-2840-1430105266.png?itok=_3vD8cps",
    "href": "https://sourceforge.net/projects/dean/",
    "description": "Deanspace was a milestone in the rise of the Internet for political campaigns and grassroots initiatives. It also kicked off a long love affair between Drupal and non-profits (e.g. [Greenpeace](https://www.greenpeace.org/international/), [American Cancer Society](https://secure.acsevents.org/site/SPageServer/?pagename=relay), [Red Nose Day](https://www.comicrelief.com/rednoseday/), ...).",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2002-06-15T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 4.0 is released, with a new taxonomy module",
    "username": "marco",
    "avatar": "https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/527826?s=400&v=4",
    "href": "https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/blob/4.0.x/CHANGELOG",
    "description": "Marco wrote taxonomy because he needed a way to group forums into categories. Drupal's rich taxonomy system foreshadows what will become known as tags/labels in [Delicious](http://del.icio.us/), [Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/home), etc",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 2,
    "date": "2001-09-15T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 3.0 is released",
    "username": "Dries",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-1-1401055330.jpg?itok=E9No1cHd",
    "href": "https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/blob/3.0.x/CHANGELOG",
    "description": "3.0 major had a whopping 6 month development cycle. Nodes are introduced as a building block for content. They can be specialized into many content types.",
    "thumbnail": "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/weitzman/drupal-timeline/assets/3.0.png",
    "comment": ""
  },
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    "date": "2001-09-10T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Druplicon is introduced",
    "href": "https://www.agiledrop.com/blog/history-druplicon-famous-drupal-symbol",
    "username": "Steven",
    "avatar": "https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/172808?s=460&u=f4583a521c727eaefc1544c4401657aa6fdf057c&v=4",
    "description": "Drupal's famous logo, featuring infinity eyes and remixed into thousands of variants, is introduced by Steven Wittens (UnConeD) and Kristjan Jansen.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
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    "date": "2001-03-15T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 2.0 is released",
    "username": "Kjartan",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/default-avatar.png?itok=pCwA0iJh",
    "href": "https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/blob/2.0/CHANGELOG",
    "description": "A mere 2 months after 1.0, Drupal ships 2.0. Backward compatibility was not yet a concern. The translation system is introduced, with its brilliantly simple t() function.",
    "comment": ""
  },
  {
    "priority": 1,
    "date": "2001-01-15T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "Drupal 1.0 is released",
    "username": "Dries",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-1-1401055330.jpg?itok=E9No1cHd",
    "href": "https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/-/tree/1.0",
    "description": "Dries Buytaert shares the initial release of his 'dormitory bulletin board'. It includes 18 files that are called modules. It features a hook system where modules interact with each other and the core framework. On this very day, Wikipedia is also born as a bespoke LAMP site. Had that happened 6 months later, it would probably be a Drupal site!.",
    "comment": ""
  },
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    "date": "2010-05-08T00:00:00+00:00",
    "title": "1st edition of Drupal Dev Days in Munich",
    "username": "danielnolde",
    "avatar": "https://www.drupal.org/files/styles/grid-2-2x-square/public/user-pictures/picture-79829-1481107121.jpg?itok=mOX5LXxA",
    "href": "https://groups.drupal.org/node/56118",
    "description": "First edition of the yearly european event Drupal Dev Days. The event is independently organized in a different country every year and gathers hundreds of developers or contributors.",
    "comment": ""
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]