drupal 8.9.7

This is a patch (bugfix) release of Drupal 8 and is ready for use on production sites. Learn more about Drupal 8.

Drupal 8.9 is the final minor release of the 8.x series. It is a long-term support (LTS) version, and will receive security coverage until November 2021. It provides the same public API as Drupal 9.0 aside from deprecated code and dependency changes. (Learn more about Drupal 9.)

If you are upgrading to this release from 8.8.x, read the Drupal 8.9.0 release notes before you upgrade.

Important update information

This release has been tagged with Composer 2.0.0-RC1. Please report any issues in the Drupal core issue queue.

Known issues

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All changes since Drupal 8.9.6

• Issue #3168301 by chr.fritsch, phenaproxima: oEmbed validator should use the urlResolver to get the resource URL
• Issue #3174569 by paulocs: Fix English mistake in Connection.php
• Issue #2904546 by mrweiner, vsujeetkumar, quietone, dev.patrick, MaskOta, msuthars, alexpott, sarvjeetsingh, abhisekmazumdar, vacho, heddn: admin/reports/upgrade redirect doesn't handle view arguments when enabled
• Issue #3110064 by idebr, chandrashekhar_srijan, Vidushi Mehta, ckng, benjifisher, mikelutz: Migrate empty, and link field
• Issue #3173873 by shetpooja04: Unused variable $pos in SearchQuery.php, search module
• Issue #3156949 by ytsurk, Berdir: Filename is not shown in the maximum allowed file size error message (w/o using the file_validate_size upload validator)
• Issue #2614720 by quietone, roderik, Dylan Donkersgoed, ofry, Deepak Goyal, samiullah, jonathanshaw, catch, benjifisher, larowlan, Ruedische, Rewted, KlemenDEV, abramm, dmytro-aragorn, ao2, HiMyNameIsSeb, dionsj, mgp_novicell, xjm, vadim.hirbu, scalas89, hchonov, mayurjadhav, nplowman, rollins, paranojik: Fatal errors while loading/building orphaned comments
• Issue #3173976 by shetpooja04: Remove unused variable $file_path in ConfigTest.php, system module
• Issue #3173437 by anmolgoyal74: Repeative 'or' word in FieldOptionTranslation.php
• Issue #3173435 by anmolgoyal74: Repeated 'not' word in PharExtensionInterceptor.php
• Issue #3119254 by quietone, shaktik, douggreen, larowlan: [backport] Add taxonomy_term_reference_plain and taxonomy_term_reference_rss_category to TaxonomyTermReference
• Issue #2586013 by g-brodiei, pameeela, ayushmishra206, Vidushi Mehta, willzyx, LoMo, larowlan, longwave, Lendude, catch: [backport] node_views_analyze() is never executed because it is in the wrong inc file
• Issue #2949400 by ayushmishra206, chandrashekhar_srijan, bandanasharma, marvil07, AkashkumarOSL, quietone, mikelutz: MigrateProcessInterface documents ProcessPluginBase behaviour
• Issue #2821352 by chr.fritsch, jian he, Pancho, RaphaelBriskie, jonathanshaw, alexpott, amateescu, larowlan: EntityReferenceAutocompleteWidget::getAutocreateBundle() unnecessarily requires the 'target_bundles' setting
• Revert "Issue #3143721 by quietone, raman.b, mikelutz: Create a separate SourceProviderTest"
• Issue #3158262 by S_Bhandari: Remove Unused variable from Path Alias module
• Issue #3143721 by quietone, raman.b, mikelutz: Create a separate SourceProviderTest
• Issue #3171510 by quietone: Add documentation for default_bundle to destination\Entity
• Issue #3173037 by bnjmnm: Prettier not run on Ckeditors imagecaption's plugin.es6.js
• Issue #3156878 by alexpott, andypost: \Drupal\Component\Datetime\DateTimePlus should pass correct parameter types to checkdate()
• Issue #3171743 by chr.fritsch, paulocs, Berdir, phenaproxima: Not possible to overwrite the upload forms for media library
• Issue #2132773 by g-brodiei, killes@www.drop.org, DevJoJodae, jonathanshaw, dawehner: Don't add term_access tag if SQL rewriting off
• Issue #3171366 by bnjmnm: Comments from variables.pcss.css create nonuseful noise in compiled css
• Issue #3165763 by quietone, mikelutz: Combine two tests to one in d7 MigrateFieldTest and MigrateFieldInstance
• Issue #3051932 by pameeela, larowlan, aurelianzaha: Update docs link to EntityStorageInterface::delete() in core/includes/entity.inc
• Issue #2678510 by larowlan, quietone, ankithashetty, samiullah, alexpott: Remove @todos from migrate credentials form
• Issue #3166360 by lauriii: Disable csslint testing in core
• by xjm: More coding standards fixes.
• SA-CORE-2020-011 followup by xjm: Clean up coding standards in test.
• Back to dev.
• Merged 8.9.6.
• Issue #3170648 by hussainweb: CKEditorPluginManager::getEnabledButtons throws warnings on PHP 8.0.0 beta3
• Issue #2969551 by quietone, mikelutz, joachim, benjifisher, catch: Migrate messages from caught exceptions need file and line details
• Issue #3159101 by Wim Leers: SQLBase::mapjoinable still does not support SQLite
• Issue #315176 by Dave Reid, andypost, franz, sun, Alan D.: Clean-up remains of $form['array_filter'] hack with array_filter in book module
• Issue #3110839 by quietone, jungle: Use of \Drupal\Core\Database\Install\Tasks::getFormOptions() in \Drupal\migrate_drupal_ui\Form\CredentialForm::buildForm() results in confusing description for prefix form element
• Issue #2822334 by jungle, mbovan, longwave, Kristen Pol, quietone, catch: Unicode::mimeHeaderDecode() doesn't support lowercased encoding
• Issue #3101045 by quietone, mikelutz, Stefan Kangas, NiklasBr: LanguageContentSettingsTaxonomyVocabulary source plugin should only add language column if it exists
• Issue #3071760 by phenaproxima, vijaycs85, catch, nils.destoop, larowlan, longwave, alexpott: oEmbed system does not remove query strings from local thumbnail filenames
• Issue #3124302 by Sam152, acbramley, seanB: The media library should perform access checks against the revision of the entity being edited
• Issue #3122002 by clayfreeman, lauriii, alexpott: Remove dependency to localize.drupal.org on Nightwatch tests
• Issue #3159849 by quietone, mikelutz: Add missing tests of filepath to FileTest