Pathauto 5.x-2.1 Released

The Pathauto module is a rather popular one for Drupal. In November Pathauto 5.x-2.0 was released which included a restructuring of several features to add new features and enhance scalability. There have been almost 50 bugfixes and features added between 5.x-2.0 and 5.x-2.1. See the release page for full details.

I wanted to blog about this for a few reasons.

Pathauto Configuration/UI Changes

First, there was a change to the UI in the way that feed aliases are handled to better support the use of Views for taxonomy feeds. I've udpated this in the upgrade guide (which, especially for folks upgrading from 5.x-1 or 4.7, should be required reading). There were also several improvements to the UI to simplify it and help people figure out which token is the right one to use. This was a major problem with the 2.0 release so I hope that the 2.1 will be easier to use. There is still room for improvements but...

Comaintainer and Maintenance Status

Second, this release is likely to be the last for a while. Now that this 5.x branch is more stable I plan to spend some time working on the 6.x branch to get a stable release of that. I'd also love a co-maintainer which mikeryan has offered to help which would take the module full circle to its author. I'm broadcasting this here to be a responsible maintainer given that I have less bandwidth in the coming months to dedicate to Pathauto because...

Prediction Market Module

I've increasingly been focused with the new Prediction Market module which is ready for a beta demo and I hope that shortly it will be ready for a glorious full life. Interested traders should sign up on that site (approval required). If you want to help test the module rather than participating in the beta please do.