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Drupal 7.12 and 6.24 before Drupal 8 Drupal 7 releases before 7.12 contained a bug which prevented the use of custom menus. Because the Menu Block module provided a workaround for this bug as it added dependency to this module. With the release of Drupal 7.12 and Menu Block 2.3, the bug was successfully removed. The 7.x release of Accordion Menu has not been updated to reflect these changes. Use of Drupal 7.12 and Menu Block 2.3 will result in a blank page of output on a site. Upgrading the existing Drupal 7 and 6 sites is however strongly recommended. The below is the work flow of the updated Drupal versions. Documentation Team 1st Quarter 2012 Update Loads of content was updated on Drupal.org this quarter. Out of which the following are to be noted: • There used to be a "Community and Support" link, now there are separate Community and Support links, and the Support page has been completely redone. This will help people to connect with Drupal Expert as they get started. • The Omega theme project organized a group to update the Omega section of the Community Documentation. The Media module project organized a group to update the Media documentation. • A New Contributor Tasks section is started on Drupal.org. This is a place where people new to contributing to Drupal can find meaningful and doable tasks to start with. Suggestions and ideas can also be added to this page. rnDrupal Camp Singapore 2012 Drupal Camp Singapore is a yearly Drupal community event. Developers, themers, administrators and business people are brought together for a weekend of talks and sharing of Drupal expertise. The aim is to empower the Singapore Drupal Developer community to build really useful websites and web applications that have a competitive edge over other sites that are developed in various other platforms using Drupal, this helped various people in business to understand how they can benefit from Drupal's power. The Drupalcon Update The Drupal CMS conference "DrupalCon 2012" happened at Denver. In this about 3,000 people will be attending. Dries who created Drupal gave his insights about Drupal and also discussed about the Drupal 8 release. There are three main areas on which Drupal 8 is focused on (1) mobile compatibility, (2) modernizing the development API with the Symfony framework, and (3) improving the user interface for content authors. He announced a tentative release date of August 2013 for Drupal 8.