Download Drupal 8.4.4

Version 8.4.4 of Drupal has been released. Drupal is a PHP-written, user-friendly and powerful content management platform, with which, for example, websites can be created. It’s simple enough for a novice user, but powerful enough to build a more complex website as well. The program includes a content management platform and a development framework. The release notes for version 8.4.4 can be found below.

release notes

This is a patch release of Drupal 8 and is ready for use on production sites. see the CHANGELOG.txt for a summary of changes and improvements since the last minor release. Learn more about Drupal 8.

This release only contains bug fixes, along with documentation and testing improvements. Translators should take note of a minor string change since the last release.

The following important issues are resolved in 8.4.4 (in addition to the dozens of other fixes listed at the end of this post):

• [PHP 7.2] count() parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable. Drupal 8.4.4 still has one remaining critical bug on PHP 7.2 which will be fixed by Drupal 8.5.0, to be released March 7 2018.
• Concurrently editing two translations of a node may result in data loss for non-translatable fields

Known issues

There are no known regressions in this release.

• Important: If you have not already upgraded to 8.4.0, read the Drupal 8.4.0 release notes before upgrading to 8.4.4. Drupal 8.4 includes major version updates for Symfony, jQuery, and jQuery UI and is no longer compatible with older versions of Drush.
• Drupal 8 currently has one remaining critical bug on PHP 7.2 which will be fixed by Drupal 8.5.0, to be released March, 7 2018.