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[James L.]

Drupal 6.8 and Drupal 5.14 are slight updates to Drupal 6.7 and 5.13, removing an incompatibility with versions of PHP before 5.2 released in the earlier versions. The 6.7 and 5.13 releases fixed problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities.

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 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement.

Changelog

The full list of changes between the 6.7 and 6.8 releases can be found by reading the 6.8 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable DRUPAL-6 branch can be found at http://drupal.org/project/cvs/3060/?branch=DRUPAL-6.

The full list of changes between the 5.13 and 5.14 releases can be found by reading the 5.14 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable DRUPAL-5 branch can be found at http://drupal.org/project/cvs/3060/?branch=DRUPAL-5.




Security vulnerabilities

It is important to note that the previous releases were released in response to the discovery of security vulnerabilities. Since the current releases follow them up shortly, you should be informed of these. Details can be found in the official security advisory:

• SA-2008-073

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 6.6 or 5.12. Please read the announcement for details on the patches.

If you still prefer to patch Drupal, apply the http://drupal.org/files/sa-2008-073/SA-2008-073-6.6.patch file to your Drupal 6.6 code base or http://drupal.org/files/sa-2008-073/SA-2008-073-5.12.patch to your Drupal 5.12 codebase.




Important update notes

It is important to run update.php to refresh the menu cache and other caches on the website.