Download Drupal 6.3 / 5.8

Drupal is a versatile content management system that works on a large number of platforms. The program can be done through modules be provided with additional functionality and by using themes can another layout be attached to the cms. For example, it is possible to maintain a news site, forum and/or a collaboration site with Drupal. The developers have released two new versions in the 6.x and 5.x branch, which address a security vulnerability and fix a number of minor bugs. The version numbers arrived at 6.3 and 5.8 respectively and provided the following announcement:

Drupal 6.3 and 5.8 released, fixing security issues

Drupal 6.3 and Drupal 5.8, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilities, are now available for download. Drupal 6.3 also includes some changes to the installer to prevent file ownership issues on shared hosts; upgrades jQuery to version 1.2.6; improves PostreSQL compatibility; Fixes performance issues in search, menu and form API and contains a variety of other small improvements. It should also be noted that the Views for Drupal 6 release candidate requires Drupal 6.3 to run properly.

Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases, but we fixed some notable performance issues too.

Changelog

The full list of changes between the 6.2 and 6.3 releases can be found by reading the 6.3 release notes. The full list of changes between the 5.7 and 5.8 releases can be found by reading the 5.8 release notes.

security vulnerabilities

Drupal 6.3 and 5.8 were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory: SA-2008-044

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 bug fixes 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 6.3 or 5.8. Please read the announcement for details on the patches.

If you still prefer to patch Drupal, apply this file to your Drupal 6.2 code base or this file to your Drupal 5.7 codebase.

Important update notes

Although these releases contain no database changes, it is important to run update.php to refresh the menu cache and other caches on the website.