Upgrading the Drupal 8 base system to 8.6.2

botond published March 2018, 10, Thu - 18:21 time

I would like to draw the attention of the operators of Drupal websites to the important security system update (8.6.2) released yesterday, the installation of which is highly recommended. Sure, every page sends a notification to the admins, but it’s still worth a few sentences about it.

The Drupal download page they write about the importance of the update more vulnerabilities also included. So an update is recommended as soon as possible.

I have already made one about upgrading the base system description, it makes updating the Drupal engine easy and fast.

Never forget to completely save the page structure and database before updating!

After reviewing the 8.6.2 installation package, there is no other change compared to 8.6.1, so neither the composer files nor the htaccess etc have been changed so the update can be done quickly as described above.

When you are updating the database, ask a question, press enter or type yes (for a command line upgrade):

 ------------ --------------------------- ------------- ------------------------------------------
  Module       Update ID                   Type          Description
 ------------ --------------------------- ------------- ------------------------------------------
  contextual   fixed_endpoint_and_markup   post-update   Ensure new page loads use the updated JS
                                                         and get the updated markup.
 ------------ --------------------------- ------------- ------------------------------------------

 Do you wish to run the specified pending updates? (yes/no) [yes]:

Finally, don't forget to rebuild the cache:

drush cr

After the upgrade, there may be additional module upgrades that are only available for the new base system version, so it is a good idea to upgrade them under a smoke.