Install

To start a new Drupal project with version 8.0.6:

To update your site and all dependencies to the latest version of Drupal:

To update your site to this specific release:
Pinning to a specific release may make it more challenging to update your site in future, see composer documentation for managing pinned versions

Using Composer to manage Drupal site dependencies

Downloads

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Release notes

This is a patch release of Drupal 8 and is ready for use on production sites. See the CHANGELOG.txt for an extensive summary of changes and improvements since Drupal 7! Learn more about Drupal 8.

This is also the final scheduled patch release of the 8.0.x series. The next stable release planned for Drupal 8 will be the Drupal 8.1.0 minor release, which is scheduled for April 20, 2016. Sites should plan to update to 8.1.0 once it is released in order to continue receiving bug and security fixes. A release candidate will be available for testing soon.

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

The following important issues are resolved in 8.0.6 (in addition to the dozens of other fixes listed at the end of this post):

Known issues

There are no known regressions in this release.

The following issues may affect people running Drupal 8.0.6 on specific hosting environments:

Search the issue queue for all known issues.

All changes since 8.0.5

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Created on: 5 Apr 2016 at 23:51 UTC
Last updated: 18 Oct 2019 at 22:21 UTC
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