Summer is Finally Here!

With June comes the urge to get out there and enjoy the sunshine, wacky times and some notable calendar days! I hope you are all enjoying this weather as best as we all can.

June Highlights

June 5 is World Environment Day—a day meant to raise environmental awareness across the globe.
June 19 is Juneteenth (also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day). On this day in 1865, Union General Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation aloud in Galveston, Texas, effectively liberating slaves in the state, which had thus far been beyond the control of the Union Army.
June 20 is the summer solstice, which heralds the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s the day with the most hours of daylight, so enjoy! In the Southern Hemisphere, winter begins at this time.
June 20 is also Father’s Day this year. Find activity ideas and learn about the history of Father’s Day here.
June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day (Canada). This holiday is meant to remind Canadians of the contributions of the many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples.
June 24 brings Midsummer Day, traditionally the midpoint of the growing season, halfway between planting and harvesting.

What’s New in Drupal?

Drupal 9.2.0 has been released! The second feature release of Drupal 9 helps keep your site even more secure and comes with increased visitor privacy protection, improved migration tools from Drupal 7, enhancements to the Olivero frontend theme and early support for the WebP image format.

Security and privacy improvements

Critical security advisories and public service announcements will now be displayed on the status report page and certain administration pages for the site's administrators. This helps prepare site owners to apply security fixes in a timely manner

For increased privacy protection of your site visitors, Drupal 9.2.0 now blocks Google Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) cookie-less user tracking by default.

Better building blocks out of the box

The Olivero theme, soon to be Drupal's new default frontend theme, has dozens of major improvements in this release, including a new form design and various accessibility fixes.

The built-in Umami demo is now more flexible with a built-in editor role and a more versatile Layout Builder demonstration.

On the way to Drupal 10

In preparation for Drupal 10, all Symfony 5 and several Symfony 6 compatibility issues have been resolved. As part of modernizing the frontend of Drupal 9, core's Tour feature now uses ShepherdJS instead of jQuery Joyride. This significantly improves the accessibility of tours and removes one more reliance on jQuery.

Other improvements

The already stable migration path from Drupal 7 is now expanded with migrations for user settings, node/user reference fields and other previously missing pieces.

Drupal's GD toolkit integration, and, therefore image styles, can now manage WebP images. There is more to do for complete WebP support. Stay tuned for improvements in future releases.

Recipes for the Season

We had some great feedback from our new recipes for the season! So here are our top 3 Junes recipes.

Happy cooking!

Summer Reads

With the pandemic spanning as long as it has, there has been a major influx of authors writing some amazing books. Here are some of the best books for business in 2021 so far, according to Amazon.

What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society by Minouche Shafik
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport
Run to Win: Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World by Stephanie Schriock with Christina Reynolds; foreword by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris

OPIN Vault of Blogs

Here are some of the most popular articles people are reading in the month of June.

And that’s it for the month of June! Happy reading and stay safe everyone.

- OPIN Marketing Team