Software update: Drupal 8.7.8

Version 8.7.8 of Drupal has been released. Drupal is a PHP-written, user-friendly and powerful content management platform, with which, for example, websites can be created. It’s simple enough for a novice user, but powerful enough to build a more complex website as well. The program includes a content management platform and a development framework. Version 8.6 includes oEmbed, a new way to add media, and there is a demo that shows what Drupal is capable of. The release notes for this release are as follows:

release notes

This is a patch release or Drupal 8 and is ready for use on production sites. Learn more about Drupal 8.

If you are upgrading to this release from 8.6.x, read the Drupal 8.7.0 release notes before upgrading to this release.

Drupal 8.7.x will receive security coverage until June 3rd, 2020, when Drupal 8.9.x is released.

Important update information Core versioning support in *.info.yml files since 8.7.7

Drupal 8.7.7 introduces a new core_version_requirement key to *.info.yml files, allowing contributed modules to specify specific versions for Drupal core compatiblity, as well as to indicate that they are compatible with both Drupal 8 and the forthcoming Drupal 9 release. see the change record for more details.

Dependency updates

• Several JavaScript dependencies have been updated to resolve publicly disclosed security issues:
  • nightwatch has been updated to version 1.2.1
  • chromedriver has been updated to version 75.1.0
  • stylelint-no-browser-hacks has been updated to 1.2.1
• Due to a compatibility issue between zend-diactoros 1.8.5 and psr-http-message-bridge versions prior to 1.1.2, Drupal core’s composer.json has increased the minimum requirement for psr-http-message-bridge from 1.0 to 1.1. 2. This should not affect sites using the tarball packaged by Drupal.org (which already supplied version 1.1.2 of the component in Drupal 8.7.7), but may lead to a dependency update for certain sites maintained with Composer.