Drupal 6.13 / 5.19

Afgelopen woensdag zijn er nieuwe maintenance releases van Drupal uitgebracht, te weten versies 6.13 en 5.19. Drupal is een in php geschreven ontwikkelpakket waarmee gebruikers content kunnen beheren, organiseren en uitgeven. Het bevat veel features die terug zijn te vinden in bijvoorbeeld contentmanagementsystemen, weblogs, collaboratiesites en fora. Een uitgebreide beschrijving van alle mogelijkheden is op deze pagina te vinden. In deze release zijn geen nieuwe mogelijkheden toegevoegd: deze worden bewaard voor versie 7.0. Wel zijn er enkele bugfixes doorgevoerd en is een beveiligingslek gedicht. Meer informatie hierover is in de release notes te vinden:

Drupal 6.13 and 5.19 released

Drupal 6.13 and 5.19, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Both releases fix some other smaller issues as well.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 5.0 release announcement.

Changelog

The full list of changes between the 6.12 and 6.13 releases can be found by reading the 6.13 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable DRUPAL-6 branch can be found here.

The full list of changes between the 5.18 and 5.19 releases can be found by reading the 5.19 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable DRUPAL-5 branch can be found here.

Security vulnerabilities

Drupal 5.19 and 6.13 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory:

• SA-CORE-2009-007

To fix the security problem, you can either (1) upgrade Drupal or (2) patch Drupal.

We strongly recommend you do the full upgrade (which is also detailed in the security announcement) as the patches do not contain the additional bug fixes that went into the releases. Applying the patches will leave your site in an unversioned state and confuse the update status module, which will keep reminding you to upgrade to 6.13 or 5.19. Please read the announcement for details on the patch.