[meta] Priorities for 2024-06-05 release of Drupal 7

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Created on 7 December 2023, about 1 year ago

Updated 21 June 2024, 6 months ago

Assorted todo lists carried over from 📌 [meta] Priorities for 2023-12-06 release of Drupal 7 Active .

These are not necessarily in priority order.

Top priorities

🌱 [META] Make Drupal 7 core compatible with PHP 8.3 Active
- 📌 [D7 PHP 8.3] TextSummaryTestCase::testLength() fails on some libxml versions Active
- 🐛 [D7 PHP 8.3] Fix SessionHttpsTestCase->testEmptySessionId() failure Needs review
✨ Backport the Announcements Feed core module to Drupal 7 RTBC

Simple fixes

🐛 _form_validate sends null to drupal_strlen triggering deprecation notice Needs work or 🐛 [D7 PHP 8.1] mb_strlen(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in drupal_strlen() Closed: duplicate
📌 Sync D7's copy of Archive_Tar with new 1.5.0 release RTBC
#1982810: Core entity_get_controller gets a NULL controller class →
🐛 Notice: Undefined index: form_build_id in ajax_get_form() Needs review

Important fixes

📌 [D7] Improve cron logging Needs work
📌 [D7] User edit form does not use flood control and allow for password brute force attacks Needs review
🐛 Allow users to update their settings regardless of duplicate email addresses in the users table. Needs review
📌 Add backtrace to all errors RTBC
🐛 Error on PHP8 during execution Database::closeConnection() Needs review
🐛 [D7] PostgreSQL queries that fail in a transaction break the entire transaction Needs review
🐛 The 'access' property of hook_user_cancel_methods_alter() methods is never used Needs work
#2539478: [D7] Allow image fields to use any extensions the current image toolkit supports (instead of hard-coding jpg, png and gif only) → Remove hardcoded image files extensions.
#2749007: Autocomplete broken for servers enforcing clean URLs → Security Regression
🐛 Older PHP versions set SameSite attribute on insecure session cookie Needs work
🐛 [D7] Login fails and no warning is issued if cookies are not enabled Needs review This is a D7 backport of 🐛 Login fails and no warning is issued if cookies are not enabled Fixed , an 18 year old issue that was marked as major and committed to drupal 9.3.x in June 2021.
🐛 [D7] file_unmanaged_move() should issue rename() where possible instead of copy() & unlink() RTBC Important fix. Mcdruid urging commit. @joseph.olstad: "D8 has this already. It is a good idea."
🐛 drupal_goto short circuits and doesn't set things to cache Needs review
🐛 Using entity_get_info in a hook_hook_info results in an incomplete module_implements cache. Needs review
🐛 Do not make entries in "cache_form" when viewing forms that use #ajax['callback'] (Drupal 7 port) Needs work
🐛 [D7] preg_split in _filter_url breaks for long html tags Needs work
#1209226: Avoid slow query for path alias whitelists →
#1978176: Build menu_tree without loading so many objects → @joseph.olstad: "... the performance improvement is huge! .. After several years I see no credible reports of an issue with this patch"
📌 [D7] Convert drupalSettings from JavaScript to JSON, to allow for CSP in the future RTBC FabianX said it looks good, has updated tests
🐛 [D7] Support X-Forwarded-* HTTP headers alternates RTBC Important backport for reverse proxies and load balance.
🐛 [D7] Add wrappers to fix permission checks Postponed Required for POSIX filesystem. Fixed in D8? @orlitzky: "I'm just going to keep updating the patch for drupal-7.x for the rest of my life." "I'll keep posting patches until I don't have to any more."
✨ Path alias filter by system path Needs work (D10 patch, still Needs review) includes 6 year old patch for D7 in comment #1 that has been RTBC and without the patch "it's very hard to find alias which contains few slashes in path."
#3210388: Potential dataloss when opting in to "Avoid field storage write when field content did not change" and changing the bundle type of an existing entity →
🐛 [D7] node_access filters out accessible nodes when node is left joined Postponed Issue identified as major. D8/9 fix pending.

Unsorted fixes

#2026817: node_access() should static cache by vid and not nid. →
🐛 pg_attribute.attrelid error Needs review
#3304385: [D7] node/add page misses content types when menu links are moved or disabled →
#2456193: Menu links - not possible to create numeric paths →
🐛 Set fixed "from:" and add "Reply-to:" to comply with DMARC RTBC
#2962374: [D7] Path alias validation should test for relative path, no trailing slash requirements →
🐛 [D7] Automatically shorten cid's in DrupalDatabaseCache RTBC
🐛 Reverting to revisions prior to addition of field translations is broken RTBC Issue is 9 years old, marked as critical and has patch that is RTBC and passes automated tests. Are tests sufficient?
#1328696: Problem with _drupal_wrap_mail_line and attachment files → Attachment of docx file or files with long names results in email that is not correct. Fixed in D8, backport for D7 has patch.
🐛 Support boolean attributes in drupal_attributes() RTBC
#3035571: [D7] ImageStyle::transformDimensions unable to deal with all effects. →
#1565892: node_type_delete() doesn't check the value returned from node_type_get_type() →
#965078: HTTP request checking is unreliable and should be removed in favor of watchdog() calls → Needs work and needs CR
#139015: breadcrumbs wrong on dblog event detail pages → Issue seems in good shape, needs a bit of work as of Aug-4
#1951408: Core Update manager doesn't correctly handle "status" UPDATE_NOT_CHECKED → Includes D7 core patch in comment #16 that passes tests and is RTBC. Required for update_advanced module that is used by 2,700 sites. Does not appear to be relevant to D8/D9.
#498752: Partial word search for Drupal 7 → Includes working patch from 5 yrs ago. Was closed as won't fix feature request. Now that a similar feature is proposed for D9 core ✨ Partial Search in Drupal Core Needs work maybe it's worth considering.

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Drupal 7.101 was released as planned: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/7.101 →

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I have created a new meta issue for the next release scheduled for 2024-12-04: 📌 [meta] Priorities for 2024-12-04 release of Drupal 7 Active and carried over all open issues from this meta issue.
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