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Git  is a version control software (CVS) created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the same creator of Linux, developed under an Open Source license and free to use, this tool was developed to manage large or small projects with efficiency and greater access speed, providing a broader list of benefits and conveniences.

On Mac, as in most existing operating systems, many of its important or necessary files for proper functioning are hidden and in reality this is not an impediment for anyone, but it is uncomfortable when we find the solution to this problem. on a website, but we do not take into account that on certain occasions it is a half-solution.

Having been in contact with dozens of higher education institutions over the past few years, I am convinced, now more than ever, that open source technology, particularly Drupal, is the best option for these organizations. I know I'm echoing what many in the Drupal community have been observing for a while, but I'd like to describe why Drupal makes so much sense for a University.

There are many improvements that you'll notice as soon as you log in. However, there are many other little gems that you'll discover as you continue to use your new Drupal 8 site. For example, in previous versions of Drupal, editing the "Authored on" date was done using a text field, in Drupal 8 you simply select the date.

In addition to improving the experience for editors, another big area of ​​improvement for end users are features that make Drupal 8 mobile-friendly by default, to keep up with the global explosion of mobile devices around the world.

Drupal has a multitude of contributed modules that provide very flexible and robust functionality. Precisely 3 of these modules are the ones mentioned, with which we can build administrative or end-user interfaces in a simple, scalable way and, most importantly, using the “Drupal methodology”.

This July 13, it is very important that you pay attention to the releases of security patches that the Drupal security team will be announcing through its bulletins since a  highly critical  vulnerability has been identified present in several contributed modules of Drupal 7 that allows arbitrary execution of PHP code.

Yesterday  we told you  that today, July 13th, it was very important to be on the lookout for security updates to contributed modules that the Drupal security team would announce as they correct a highly critical vulnerability.

The Drupal security team asks all site administrators to perform the update as soon as possible since having  a rating of 20 out of 25  on the risk scale, it is very likely that potential attackers will take advantage of the vulnerability after a few hours or days after the updates are disclosed.

Recently Mailchimp announced a new version of its API changing the version and thus making it more robust, this means that version 2.0 of the API will be deprecated.