This week Drupal v4.7 was released. Ever after two years of usage, Drupal continues to remove all stops and produce heart stopping releases. Some very noticeable upgrades include; free-tagging, watchdog improvements, news aggregator RSS feed, and each of the nearly 200 optional modules comes with its own installation script.
What is Drupal?
Drupal is a content management framework, content management system and blogging engine which was originally written by Dries Buytaert as a bulletin board system. Drupal has become much more, thanks to its flexible architecture, and is the software used to power Debian Planet, Terminus1525, TPM Cafe, Wikinerds Portal, Spread Firefox, and KernelTrap, among others. Drupal is written in PHP using strict coding convention.
Meaning of Drupal
Drupal is the English spelling for the Dutch word 'druppel' which means 'drop'. The name was taken from the Drop.org website (now defunct), whose code slowly evolved into Drupal. Dries actually wanted to call the site 'dorp' (Dutch for 'village', referring to its community aspects), but made a typo when checking the domain name and thought it sounded better. The project was started in 2000.
Drupal Security
Solution Status
The "Solution Status" pie graph below shows the percentages of "Unpatched", "Vendor Patched", "Vendor Workaround" and "Partial Fixed" Secunia advisories affecting Drupal 4.x.
Criticality
The "Criticality" pie graph below shows the percentages of "Extremely", "Highly", "Moderately", "Less", and "Not" critical Secunia advisories affecting Drupal 4.x.
This can be used to get a quick overview of e.g. how severe the issued Secunia advisories have been, affecting this product.
Impact
The "Impact" pie graph below shows the percentages of all Secunia Impact categories based on Secunia advisories affecting Drupal 4.x.
This can e.g. be used to see if this product seems to have a problem with specific types of vulnerabilities.
