Happy update day fellow Drupalers. Did you update your sites to 7.18?

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Posted by mossback on December 20, 2012 at 12:49am
Yes
33% (1 vote)
No
67% (2 votes)
Total votes: 3

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Here's the security advisory

Posted by christefano on December 20, 2012 at 2:55am
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Here's the security advisory (SA) for those who don't yet know:

   http://drupal.org/SA-CORE-2012-004

FYI, Drupal 6.27 was also released today. The SA is for both 7.17 and 6.27.

I should have mentioned 6.27

Posted by mossback on December 20, 2012 at 3:29am
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Doh! Thanks for the additional information and for adding the link.

What about Drupal 7.4

Posted by mvensky on December 22, 2012 at 3:44am
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Downloaded/installed latest macports drupal; it's 7.4

I think you can upgrade

Posted by mossback on December 22, 2012 at 8:27am
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I've been playing with updates for the past couple of days. There are likely better/simpler ways to do the update. This is just one method that I found to work for me. I started with the following instructions and the included links. If anyone has any corrections/suggestions I'd be happy to hear them.
http://drupal.org/node/1223018

When you look at Reports>Status Report, or Reports>Available Updates you will be notified that there is an important update available. Since you are running 7.x and this is a minor 7.x update you should be able to update.

Put your site into maintenance mode. Backup your database(s) using the command line, or phpmyadmin's export. Copy your drupal-7.4/ folder to drupal-7.4.old/.

Remove the contents of drupal-7.4/.

Download and unpack the latest Drupal core from http://drupal.org/drupal-7.18-release-notes. Copy the files in the drupal-7.18/ directory to the newly emptied drupal-7.4/. Delete the new profiles/ and sites/ directories and copy the ones in drupal-7.4-old/ in to replace them.

Now in your browser,go to http://yourdrupalsite.example.com/update.php. Read through it and if it all looks good hit the shiny button.

Hope that helps. It shouldn't break anything :D Good luck!

Tried it out

Posted by mossback on December 22, 2012 at 10:10am
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I Installed 7.4 and I am about to hit the big button to "apply pending updates." This is probably much the same as you would see:

The version of Drupal you are updating from has been automatically detected.

    

  • HIDE16 PENDING UPDATES
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  • system module
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  • 7072 - Remove the obsolete 'site_offline_message' variable. @see update_fix_d7_requirements()
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  • 7073 - Add binary to {file_managed}, in case system_update_7034() was run without it.
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  • 7074 - This update has been removed and will not run.
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  • 7076 - Convert menu_links query strings into arrays.
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  • 7077 - Revert {file_managed}.filename changed to a binary column.
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  • comment module
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  • 7009 - Change the last_comment_timestamp column description.
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  • field module
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  • 7002 - Split the all-inclusive field_bundle_settings variable per bundle.
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  • image module
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  • 7002 - Add width and height columns to image field schema and populate.
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  • 7003 - Remove the variables that set alt and title length since they were not used for database column size and could cause PDO exceptions.
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  • 7004 - Use a large setting (512 and 1024 characters) for the length of the image alt and title fields.
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  • menu module
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  • 7001 - Rename "Primary Links" and "Secondary Links" to their Drupal 7 equivalents.
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  • 7002 - Rename the primarysecondary menu blocks to match previously renamed menus.
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  • 7003 - Add missing custom menus to active menus list.
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  • node module
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  • 7012 - Switches body fields to untranslatable while upgrading from D6 and makes them language neutral.
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  • 7013 - Change {node}.vid default value from 0 to NULL to avoid deadlock issues on MySQL.
user module
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  • 7018 - Ensure there is an index on {users}.picture.
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Update: It seems to have taken the update successfully. :D

    

        
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Posted by shamio on December 22, 2012 at 8:44pm        

  

  

    

      

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As i checked, it seems that Drupal 7.18 doesn't include major upgrades and it only fixes minor problems and i want to know is it really needed to upgrade to this version or we can wait for the next release?

    

          
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