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Install
To start a new Drupal project with version 8.0-alpha6@alpha: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
Download drupal-8.0-alpha6.tar.gztar.gz
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Download drupal-8.0-alpha6.zipzip
12.92 MB
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Release notes
This is a hot-fix to alpha5 in order to fix problems on Windows. It also includes the initial migrate in core patch.
Changes since 8.0-alpha5:
- Revert "Issue #1954892 by dawehner, tim.plunkett, David_Rothstein, effulgentsia: Replace 'theme callback' and hook_custom_theme() with a clean theme negotiation system."
- #2054055 by seanr: Bartik inappropriately styles all links in the footer, rather than links inside blocks in the footer, breaking contextual links in the process.
- #2115061 by JeroenT, tim.plunkett: Remove direct calls to drupal_add_html_head_link().
- #2099133 by Wim Leers: Comment form on same page as comments forces node render caching to be per user.
- Migrate in core #2125717 by mikeryan, chx, marvil07, bdone, jessehs, mpgeek, BTMash, fastangel, mongolito404, Moshe Weitzman, eliza411, YesCT, dawehner, cosmicdreams
- Rollback of Issue #2138239 by damiankloip, tim.plunkett, amateescu: Use GlobIterator instead of glob. — breaks testbot. /li>
- Revert "Issue #2138239 by damiankloip, tim.plunkett, amateescu: Use GlobIterator instead of glob."
- #2138239 by damiankloip, tim.plunkett, amateescu: Use GlobIterator instead of glob.
- #2120035 by samhassell, dawehner: Clean up docs headers for views include files
- #213887 by Xano: Fix up PluginBag documentation
- #2102777 by tstoeckler, Gábor Hojtsy: Fix docs for update to theme_links
- #2111823 by amateescu, dawehner: Convert field_ui / Entity local tasks to YAML definitions.
- #2139407 by amateescu: HEAD broken on Windows.
- #1851018 by alexpott, attiks, xjm: Improve breakpoint configuration implementation.
- #2004086 by dawehner, pwolanin, katbailey, tim.plunkett, vijaycs85, fabpot: The Request service must be synthetic.
- #1954892 by dawehner, tim.plunkett, David_Rothstein, effulgentsia: Replace 'theme callback' and hook_custom_theme() with a clean theme negotiation system (rollback).