A couple of days ago I started my first Drupal 7 site for a client, and while I was doing that I was listening to the latest Lullabot podcast and Angie was talking a little about the Drupal 8 (very briefly) and about what Larry Garfield was planning for blocks, in that their will be a completely new model which will be more of a pull model instead of the current push model which is currently in Drupal <= 7. This took me back to Drupalcon SF at the Core Developers Summit and other breakout sessions where we started talking about this.

Working on an import of some content for a client I have found that some things were not working such as auto node title.

After spending about 30 minutes banging my head to work out what the problem was. If was a problem that I had forgotten about, as I needed to get around this in the past.

Basically the problem is that when you do an update of your system hook_init() is not called. Normally this is not a problem but what happens in that modules like cck use hook_init() to include the token implementation, or even in the case of strongarm all the $conf is updated during hook_init().