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To start a new Drupal project with version 8.6.16:

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

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Downloads

Download drupal-8.6.16.tar.gztar.gz 16.36 MB
MD5: a0683ae0b0ea99845a6bf45383671cb9
SHA-1: bcb257ac1d7a6cbdd487f4a57ecc42e919f129c0
SHA-256: 96de86424df1347c0c70ce58687f9dfece4215fab69710378764d789f82eafcb
Download drupal-8.6.16.zipzip 26.07 MB
MD5: bfa458f26ffc9b5ae70f611ccb8010c3
SHA-1: 2473aa3be16b508b2135c8f0f21cd13679b0a27d
SHA-256: f1b6acd503d2c8ce72805a7a3c46caeb8843c81535bf98e722d8ddc57459cc70

Release notes

Maintenance and security release of the Drupal 8 series.

This release fixes security vulnerabilities. Sites are urged to upgrade immediately after reading the notes below and the security announcement:

No other fixes are included.

Which release do I choose? Security coverage information

  • Sites on 8.6.x will receive security coverage until December 4, 2019 (when Drupal 8.8.0 is scheduled for release and 8.6.x security coverage ends).
  • Versions of Drupal 8 prior to 8.6.x are end-of-life and do not receive security coverage.

    • Important update information

    • No changes have been made to the .htaccess, web.config, robots.txt or default settings.php files in this release, so upgrading custom versions of those files is not necessary if your site is already on the previous release.

    Known issues

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Created by: xjm
Created on: 8 May 2019 at 17:15 UTC
Last updated: 18 Dec 2019 at 19:54 UTC
Git tag 8.6.16
Security update
Insecure

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