With the launch of Managing News we have released Feeds, the intended successor of FeedAPI. Feeds is a next generation import and aggregation API that applies lessons learned from three years of intensive work with aggregation in Drupal. This is one of the outcomes of our work on Managing News that we are most excited about. We'd like to again thank the Knight Foundation for their vision to support the improvement of fundamental aggregation tools for Drupal, which helped create Feeds. In this post I'd like to explain the reasons for building a new aggregation and import API, the design goals for it, and what this is going to mean for FeedAPI.

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