Afgelopen woensdag zijn er nieuwe maintenace releases van Drupal uitgebracht, te weten versies 6.9 en 5.15. Drupal is een dynamisch in PHP geschreven systeem waarmee gebruikers content kunnen beheren, organiseren en uitgeven. Het bevat veel features die terug zijn te vinden in bijvoorbeeld contentmanagementsystemen, weblogs, collaboratiesites en forums. 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:
Changelog
The full list of changes between the 6.8 and 6.9 releases can be found by reading the 6.9 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable DRUPAL-6 branch can be found at here.
The full list of changes between the 5.14 and 5.15 releases can be found by reading the 5.15 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable DRUPAL-5 branch can be found at here.
Security vulnerabilities
Drupal 6.9 and 5.15 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory: To fix the security problems, you can either (1) upgrade Drupal or (2) patch Drupal.
We recommend you do the full upgrade (which is also detailed in the security announcement) as the patches do not contain the additional bugfixes that went into the release. Applying the patches will leave your site in an unversioned state and confuse update status module, which will keep reminding you to upgrade to 6.9 or 5.15. Please read the announcement for details on the patches.
If you still prefer to patch Drupal, apply the 6.8 patch file to your Drupal 6.8 code base or 5.14 patch to your Drupal 5.14 codebase.