By andypost on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
11.2.x
Introduced in version: 
11.2.0
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/3502973
Description: 

The Update Manager UI, which allowed administrators to download and update modules and themes through the Drupal admin interface, has been removed from core. This includes the related UI components, forms, routes, and supporting code, while preserving the update status reporting functionality.

What is affected?

The following routes have been removed:

  • /admin/reports/updates/update (update.report_update)
  • /admin/modules/update (update.module_update)
  • /admin/appearance/update (update.theme_update)
  • /admin/update/ready (update.confirmation_page)

The following form classes have been removed:

  • \Drupal\update\Form\UpdateManagerUpdate
  • \Drupal\update\Form\UpdateReady

The following route subscriber has been removed:

\Drupal\update\Routing\UpdateRouteSubscriber

The following utility functions has been removed:

_update_manager_access() and update_manager_download_batch_finished()

Additionally, all UI text and help text references to the Update Manager functionality have been removed.

Note that the contributed automatic updates module provides similar functionality in a more up-to-date way.

Impacts: 
Site builders, administrators, editors
Module developers