pOur third Drupal 7 alpha version was released just over a month ago. Today, we're proud to announce the release of the fourth alpha version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback. a href=/drupal-7.0-alpha1The first alpha announcement/a provided a comprehensive list of improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we'll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you've grown to love!/p pThis release includes many critical bug fixes and other improvements, including:/p ul liColor module now usable by themes other than Garland./li liUsability improvements including re-weightable roles and saner Forum module defaults./li liA variety of optimizations made to data import-related functions to make migrations faster./li liLots of previously missing documentation for hooks has now been documented. Hooray!/li liIncreased test coverage, particularly core Tokens./li liLots of smaller bug fixes, security patches, and improvements./li /ul pPlease see the a href=http://drupal.org/node/782394release notes/a for more details./p pstrongIt is important to note that this alpha version emshould not/em be used for production sites. We've resolved most errors reported so far, but emthere are outstanding known issues (including security issues)/em and most likely some problems that have not been reported as of yet./strong Our next release will be on or about May 21, 2010. If the a href=http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=D7 upgrade pathupgrade path/a is working, and all known a href=http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=security.drupal.orgsecurity/a issues are fixed, this will be a beta. Otherwise, it will be another alpha release. It's expected we will have a few beta versions and at least one release candidate before Drupal 7.0 is finalized. strongYou can help us reach the final release date sooner by testing this alpha and providing feedback./strong/p pa href=http://drupal.org/drupal-7.0-alpha4 target=_blankread more/a/p

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