Visibility problem with 'restricted to certain pages'

Question

I'm porting a site from D6 to D8 and having problems with block visibility for listed pages. I have a config like this which worked on D6:

news
news/*

And pages like /news/op-ed-suu-kyis-plan-outsource-myanmars-presidency-problems-proxy would match and display the block. In D8.1.2 I have the same rules, but the migrated page with the same URL doesn't trigger the block. If I remove the rules, the block displays again, so it's definitely something here.

Am I missing some changes in how D8 handles these rules? or is it maybe something with URL aliases?

Answer 1

Of course! Now that Drupal 8 returns URL aliases with the leading slashes, I needed to update my rules to:

/news/
/news/*

to get it working as in D6