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Drupal 6.2, a maintenance release that fixes problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as security vulnerabilitiesis now available for download. The security issues identified were incode new to Drupal 6, and are therefore not applicable to sites runningon Drupal 5.
Upgrading your existing Drupal 6 sites is strongly recommended.There are no new features in this release, but we fixed some notableperformance issues too. For more information about the Drupal 6.xrelease series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement.
Security informationWe have a security announcement mailing list, a history of all security advisories, and an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories. We strongly advise Drupal administrators to sign up for the list.
Drupal 6 also includes the Update status module built-in, which informs you about important updates to your modules and themes.
Bug reportsBoth Drupal 5.x and 6.x branches are being maintained, so given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports) more maintenance releases will be made available.
ChangelogThe full list of changes between the 6.1 and 6.2 releases can be found by reading the 6.2 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.
Security vulnerabilitiesDrupal 6.2 was released in response to the discovery of securityvulnerabilities. Details can be found in the official security advisory:
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 thesecurity announcement) as the patches do not contain the additionalbugfixes that went into the release. Applying the patches will leaveyour site in an unversioned state and confuse update status module,which will keep reminding you to upgrade to 6.2. Please read theannouncement for details on the patch.
If you still prefer to patch Drupal, apply the http://drupal.org/files/sa-2008-026/SA-2008-026-6.1c.patch file to your code base.
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