Download Drupal 6.2

Just under two weeks ago, the second so-called maintenace release of Drupal 6.0 was released. Drupal is a dynamic system written in PHP that allows users to manage, organize and publish content. It contains many features that can be found in, for example, content management systems, blogs, collaboration sites and forums. A detailed description of all possibilities is available this page to find. No new features have been added in this release, these are saved for version 7.0, but some bug fixes have been made and a security vulnerability has been closed. More information about this can be found in the release notes:

Drupal 6.2

The second maintenance and security release of the Drupal 6 series. Only fixes for security vulnerabilities and other bugs have been committed. New features are only being added to the forthcoming Drupal 7.0 release.

This release fixes security vulnerabilities and also changes APIs. Sites are urged to upgrade immediately after reading the security announcement:

• SA-2008-026 – Drupal core – Drupal core – Access bypass

In addition to this security vulnerability, the following bugs have been fixed since the 6.0 release:

• typo in documentation in comment.tpl.php
• fix wording on when node access rebuild button is displayed in node_configure()
• l() attributes were not properly specified in theme.inc’s theme_username()
• PHP.net documents we should use CRLF in mail headers, so do that
• fix notice level error in xmlrpc.inc
• actually use ‘administer content types’ permission for node type editing instead of ‘administer nodes’
• theme_link() did not mark frontpage links active properly
• missing t() in system_clear_cache_submit()
• (performance) block regions should only be populated when called for, not in all cases (fixes performance expectation on 403/404 pages)
• (performance) temporary cache table entries were not flushed, causing cache_menu and cache_form to grow big
• (performance) use two level cache in menus, instead of storing very large amounts of data multiple times
• missing status check on nodes in search indexing counter
• we should keep using LF in mail headers, without CR, CRLF causes problems
• two missing t() calls in update.module
• dblog module left one more row in, when cleaning up in cron
• remove cruft from user_login(), that added extra message to the form was never used or displayed

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