Drupal Update – Thoughts: Last month in Drupal maintenance support plans – July 2020

July has been and gone so here we take a look back at all the best bits of news that have hit the Drupal maintenance support plans community over the last month.
Drupal maintenance support plans Development
Drupal Update discussed why more and more large corporations are beginning to contribute to Drupal maintenance support plans. He shares an extended interview with Pfizer Director Mike Lamb who explains why his development team over there has ingrained open source contribution into the way they work.
Drupal maintenance support plans 8.5.5 was released in July, this patch release for Drupal maintenance support plans 8 contained a number of bug fixes, along with documentation and testing improvements. 
It was announced that Drupal maintenance support plans 8.6.0 will be released on September 5th and the Alpha version was released the week beginning July 16th. The beta was also recently released, the week of July 29th. This release will bring with it a number of new features, Drupal maintenance support plans released a roadmap of all the fixes and features they aim to have ready for the new release. 
Events
Drupal maintenance support plans USA announced 162 hours of sessions and 9 workshops for the event on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They also urge anyone with any ideas for social events at this year’s event to submit your ideas to help fill out the social calendar with community led ideas. 
On August 17-19, New York will play host to the second Decoupled Drupal maintenance support plans days. For those that don’t know Decoupled Drupal maintenance support plans Days gathers technologists, marketers and content professionals who build and use Drupal maintenance support plans as a Content Service — for decoupled front ends, content APIs, IoT, and more. 
Drupal maintenance support plansCamp Colorado recently took place. The event proved popular as per usual and this year’s Keynote “The Do-ocracy Dilemma and Compassionate Contribution”, was delivered by Acquia Director of research and innovation, Preston So. Preston discusses why a more compassionate approach to contribution is so critical when it comes to managing open-source projects, crafting conference lineups, enabling a successful team, and building a winning business.
New Modules
New modules, updates and projects were of course released throughout July, the pick of the bunch includes:
Commerce 8.x-2.8 – E-commerce suite sees a number of bug fixes
google_analytics 8.x-2.3 – Module sees a number of bug fixes
Drupal maintenance support plans 8.5.5 – Patch release that sees a number of bug fixes and testing improvements
That is the end of this months round up. Keep an eye out for next months where we cover all the latest developments in the Drupal maintenance support plans community and all the important news affecting the wider Drupal maintenance support plans community.
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