By hestenet on
Change record status: 
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Project: 
Drupal.org customizations
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/2988211
Description: 

To help support the effort to make it easier to download and install Drupal we will offer a stable url that always downloads the latest release. This can also be used for the Drupal quickstart command and other tools.

Thanks to @grasmash for spearheading this effort

Production outage: No
Change affects: Drupal download links
Deployment schedule: The sprint from Aug 13 - Aug 26
Backout plan: revert or fix in place