Download Drupal 6.17/7.0 alpha 5

Drupal is a versatile content management system that works on a large number of platforms. The program can be accessed via modules be provided with additional functionality, and with themes a different layout can be attached to the cms. For example, it is possible to maintain a news site, a forum and/or a collaboration site with Drupal. The developers have just released version 6.17 and also released the fifth alpha of Drupal 7.0 a few days ago. The corresponding announcements look like this:

Drupal 6.17 released

Drupal 6.17, a maintenance release fixing issues reported through the bug tracking system, is now available for download. There are no security fixes in this release. Upgrading your existing Drupal 6 sites is recommended. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement.

Highlights of changes in this release include improvements of session cookie handling, better processing of big XML-RPC payloads, improved PostgreSQL compatibility, better PHP 5.3 and PHP 4 compatibility, improved Japanese support in search module, better browser compatibility of CSS and JS aggregation and improved logging for login failures. An incompatibility of Drupal 6.16’s new lock subsystem with some contributed modules was also resolved. In total there were about 55 patches committed to improve Drupal 6.

The full list of changes between the 6.16 and 6.17 releases can be found by reading the 6.17 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.

Given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports) more maintenance releases will be made available.

Drupal 7.0 Alpha 5 released

Our fourth Drupal 7 alpha version was released just over a month ago. Today, we’re proud to announce the release of the fifth alpha version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback. The first alpha announcement provided a comprehensive list of improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we’ll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you’ve grown to love!

This release includes many critical bug fixes, especially around the upgrade path, security issues, JavaScript, performance, and other areas.

Please see the release notes for more details.