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Drupal contributed modules critical updates12/21/2023 Drupal 7's end of life is approaching, and there is a lot for you to think about. If your organization is still using Drupal 7, it's time to get serious about migrating to Drupal 9. It also announced the end-of-life date will be re-evaluated annually. You can also follow on Twitter.Update: The Drupal Association announced on 23 February 2022 that Drupal 7 end of life was extended by one year to 1 November 2023. There are RSS feeds available for core, contrib, and public service announcements, like this one, which are used when there is a particularly critical situation. To subscribe, log in to, go to your user profile page and subscribe to the security newsletter by going to the Edit tab and then the My newsletters tab.īeyond email, you can find all security releases on ’s security advisories page. Speaking of emails, you can also put yourself on the security newsletter email list through. Every site should have someone being notified of available security updates through Update Manager. If you go to the Settings tab in there, you can also configure the site to notify you by email whenever there are new releases - either generally, or just for security updates. Most people are familiar with this report. This report shows you all new updates ready for your site. Start by making sure you have the core Update Manager module enabled, which provides you with an Available updates report on your site. There are numerous channels to stay informed. Drupal always does security releases on Wednesdays. Even if none of these modules effect you, the next time it might be something that does. If you're just learning about this critical update due to this blog post, you should make sure that you can be more quickly informed in the future. He also walks through the steps for applying the security fixes by manually applying the security patch. While the release is already out now, it is still a good list of things you should go through. The first will show you how to use Drupal’s built-in Update Manager to update the modules directly through the admin interface of your site, and the second will show you how to use Drush for the same process.īevan Rudge wrote a good article explaining how to prepare for this security release. We’ve also made our video lessons Updating Drupal Contributed Modules and Drush Commands for Site Administrators free for the next few weeks. You can find instructions on to update a module. If so, you need to either upgrade the module to the latest release that came out today, or find and apply the patch to the code directly. In order to make sure your site is secure, review all of your Drupal 7 sites to see if they are using any of the affected modules. If you do not apply the security updates to these modules on a site connected in any way to the internet, your site can, and very likely will, be hacked.This is only for the contributed projects RESTWS, Coder ( even if it is disabled!), and Webform Multiple File Upload.This security release gets the extra push of being ranked highly and a PSA because this very dangerous vulnerability will allow an attacker to execute their own PHP code on your site. On Tuesday, July 12th, the Drupal security team issued a Public Service Announcement (PSA) aboutĪ highly critical security release that happened today, Wednesday, July 13th, for 3 Drupal contributed modules.
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