After 82 weeks of development, Drupal 7 hit the goal: September 7 code freeze. The current phase is called code slush and will span 5 weeks.

During Code Slush, only patches with no new functionality will be accepted into the code stream, with a few exceptions. “Important and necessary” API changes are still allowed, as are improvements to usability, accessibility, performance, and documentation.

Drupal module developers, into overdrive testing custom code with the new base. The D7CX Movement (Drupal 7 Contributed Modules) is an initiative to have 40 modules upgraded and solid at release time. drupal.org has a list of the 40 popular modules in the D7CX Movement. See drupal.org/node/578446 for more code freeze details.

This Week’s Episode

Thanks to everyone who attended my session at DrupalCamp Philly today. Here are the slides from my presentation.

Thanks to Steve Karsch for sharing his slides from DrupalCamp Philly. His presentation was Drupal 7: What’s In It For You.

First the all-important Drupal 7 release dates: Code Freeze currently scheduled for September 1st, But no release date specified as yet. 2010?

It requires: PHP5, MySQL 5, PgSQL 8.3, and PDO.

Some highlights: PDO-based abstraction layer; support for any database supported by PHP; theming improvements; the Drupal7 User Experience Project.

Links to SimpleTest Handbook and other details on stevekarsch.com. Sign up now to help test at drupal.org.

Just sent @CMSExpo a copy of the Google #wave embedding #joomla module, setting up the demo now.

This Week’s Episode