Next stable release of Islandora?

[kayakr]

otherwise known as composer dependency hell

I'm going around in circles just now trying to get a up-to-date build of Islandora on Drupal 8.9.13 on PHP 7.2. I see that some modules such as islandora_defaults and controlled_access_terms were last released as 1.1.1 and 1.1.0 in May 2020 and March 2020 respectively. Around 1 year on, is it time for an Islandora 8.1.2 that can run on PHP 7.2?
I see a lot of good new features and improvements in the commits, but it's not clear on how to bring older sites up-to-date as there is no new stable target.
Or is the next stable target Islandora 9?

[dannylamb]

I know the feeling...

We found composer 2 forced us to bump up to PHP7.3. I think it's still possible to use PHP 7.2 so long as you're willing to live with composer 1. As far as I can tell, syntax-wise we're ok for 7.2 still.

As far as releasing is concerned, we'll actually be starting that process at the end of this month. There's a lot of good work out there sitting in stagnant PRs that I'd like to get in, and I'm hoping we can run a sprint and get those in. We'll slice a RC at the end of the sprint and can use the release as a chance to get some good community testing on those features. This release will work with both the latest Drupal 8 and 9, and we're hoping to be able to do run-throughs of updating existing sites so that we can provide instructions on how to do so. Last release all I gave folks was a bash script of what I had to do for the sandbox, which admittedly, wasn't super helpful.

[kayakr]

Along these lines, I've just noticed that very recent https://github.com/Islandora/islandora_defaults/blob/8.x-1.x/config/install/migrate_plus.migration.islandora_defaults_tags.yml targets field field_external_uri but for resource_types vocab it should be field_authority_link via controlled_access_terms? Have I understood that right?

[elizoller]

https://github.com/Islandora/islandora_defaults/blame/8.x-1.x/config/install/migrate_plus.migration.islandora_defaults_tags.yml#L25 islandora_default_tags doesn't appear to have changed the machine name for that field recently. looks like 3 years ago.
but i do see what you mean that resource_types are configured with a field_authority_link not a field_external_uri
I just checked a vanilla islandora playbook (with d8 and one with d9) and they both do NOT have URIs for the resource type terms that have been loaded. so i would say this is a "bug" in the migration for islandora_defaults.

[elizoller]

^ related to #1531