drupal 8.7.9

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

If you are upgrading to this release from 8.6.x, read the Drupal 8.7.0 release notes before upgrading to this release.

This is the final normal bugfix release of 8.7.x. Further bugfixes will be available in 8.8.0, which will be released on December 4, 2019. Drupal 8.7.x will receive security coverage until June 3rd, 2020 when Drupal 8.9.x is released.

Core versioning support in *.info.yml files since 8.7.7

Drupal 8.7.7 introduces a new core_version_requirement key to *.info.yml files, allowing contributed modules to specify specific versions for Drupal core compatiblity, as well as to indicate that they are compatible with both Drupal 8 and the forthcoming Drupal 9 release. See the change record for more details.

Important accessibility fix to the Toolbar

This releases resolves a significant accessibility bug which prevented toolbar links from working with some screen readers. Websites which need to support administrators who use assistive technology are strongly recommended to upgrade. If in doubt, assume this is the case, particularly in larger organizations. Discussing the issue with staff from IT user-support, disabled employee support, and human resources teams is advisable.

Internal change to entity and field definition update events

It is now possible to install a new field storage definition during a fieldable entity type update. Event subscribers for entity type and field definition update events will now be passed the updated definitions rather than the outdated ones. Code relying on this buggy behavior may need adjustment.

All changes since 8.7.8

• #3066954 by andrewmacpherson, Wim Leers, bnjmnm, OBKev: Admin toolbar not usable with latest versions of JAWS due to mis-use of aria-owns
• #3088163 by amjad1233, larowlan, xjm: \Drupal\Core\Menu\Form\MenuLinkDefaultForm::$moduleData is unused
• #2981889 by Nebel54, acbramley, timodwhit, bkosborne, fago, josephdpurcell, tim.plunkett, eiriksm, Sam152, grantkruger, shaal, gnikolovski: Performance Degradation in Layout Builder and other places likely
• #3083444 by alisonjo315: Duplicate "attributes" in docblock
• Revert "Issue #3082719 by quietone, mikelutz, NickWilde, Charlie ChX Negyesi: migrate_drupal_migration_plugins_alter() should only alter definitions that exist"
• #3082719 by quietone, mikelutz, NickWilde, Charlie ChX Negyesi: migrate_drupal_migration_plugins_alter() should only alter definitions that exist
• #2925816 by godotislate, jens.de.geit, Berdir, Lendude, Anybody, mbovan, rollingnet, tstoeckler: Views plugin "Rendered Entity" must add langcode in render function
• #3056816 by amateescu, larowlan, hchonov, plach, jibran, Berdir, catch, Sam152: Installing a new field storage definition during a fieldable entity type update is not possible