Updates

• Drupal 8.4.1 and 8.4.2
• Drupal dropzonejs 8.x-1.0-alpha8
• Drupal file_entity 7.x-2.12
• Drupal varnish_purge 8.x-1.9
• Drupal wysiwyg_filter 7.x-1.6-rc9
• WordPress 4.8.3
• WordPress MailPoet 2.7.15.1
• WordPress Parabola theme 2.2.2
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.6.3
• WordPress WP Custom Fields Search 1.1.4

Fixes and Tweaks

• Drupal 8 authentication is now based on the unchanging Middlebury College UID field, rather than email addresses.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• Creating a new automatically generated course catalog.
• Building out the configuration of our CAS servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, GO, Omeka, and the Course Catalog services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.