drupal 8.9.0-beta2

This is a beta release for the final, long-term support minor version of Drupal 8. Betas are good testing targets for developers and site builders who are comfortable reporting (and where possible, fixing) their own bugs. Beta releases are not recommended for non-technical users, nor for production websites. More information on beta releases.

This release fixes security vulnerabilities present in 8.9.0-beta1. Sites are urged to upgrade immediately after reading the security announcement and notes below:

• minimist CVE-2020-7598 (development dependency)

This minor release provides new improvements without breaking backward compatibility (BC) for public APIs. There may be changes in internal APIs and experimental modules that require updates to contributed and custom modules and themes per Drupal core's backwards compatibility and experimental module policies.

Minor releases may include string changes and additions. Translators can review the latest translation status on localize.drupal.org.

Drupal 8.9 is the final minor release of the 8.x series. It is a long-term support (LTS) version, and will be supported until November 2021. It also provides the same public API as Drupal 9.0 aside from deprecated code. For more information on the upcoming Drupal 9 release, read the Drupal 9.0.0-beta1 release notes.

Important update information

• Drupal core's minimist JavaScript development dependency requirement has been updated from 1.2.0 to 1.2.2.

Known issues

Search the issue queue for known issues.

All changes since 8.9.0-beta1

• #3120494 by longwave, jungle, alexpott: Bump minimist from ^1.2.0 to ^1.2.2
• #3122605 by Beakerboy, daffie: EntityResourceTestBase.php uses a static query that should be dynamic
• #3121827 by dww: Documentation follow-up fixes for hook_update_last_removed() from #3098475
• #3122742 by alexpott: Fix PHP 5 tests on 8.7.x