Install

To start a new Drupal project with version 8.2.4:

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 a summary of changes and improvements since the last minor release. Learn more about Drupal 8.

This release only contains bug fixes, along with documentation and testing improvements.

The following important issues are resolved in 8.2.4 (in addition to the dozens of other fixes listed at the end of this post):

Update instructions

Beginning with 8.2.3, packaged Drupal releases no longer contain development PHP libraries. See Drupal 8 will no longer include dev dependencies in release packages for more information.

Known issues

There are no known regressions in this release.

Drupal 8 currently has a number of known issues related to incorrect tracking of file usage, which can result in files being unexpectedly deleted from a site. (These issues also existed in 8.0.x and 8.1.x but have been recently discovered.) Site owners experiencing unexplained file loss should consider setting "Delete orphaned files" to "Never" on /admin/config/media/file-system until these issues are resolved, and note the following issues:

The following issues may affect people running this release on specific hosting environments:

Search the issue queue for all known issues.

All changes since the last release

Changes since 8.2.3:

What’s next?

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Created by: cilefen
Created on: 7 Dec 2016 at 18:50 UTC
Last updated: 12 Mar 2018 at 21:26 UTC
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