drupal 9.2.0-rc1

This is a release candidate for the next minor version (feature release) of Drupal 9. Release candidates are not supported for production sites, but they are intended for widespread testing in preparation for the upcoming stable release. More information on release candidates.

This minor release provides new improvements and functionality without breaking backward compatibility (BC) for public APIs. Note that 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.

Drupal 9.2.x contains new features, and should be the target for new site development. Drupal 9.1.x will continue to have security support until December 2021.

Drupal 8.9.x security coverage ends in November 2021, before Drupal 9.3.0 will be released, so if you are using Drupal 8, you must upgrade before November to Drupal 9.2.x to keep your site secure.

Important update information

If you are updating from 9.1.x or earlier, also read:

• 9.2.0-alpha1 update information
• 9.2.0-beta1 update information
• 9.2.0-beta2 update information
• 9.2.0-beta3 update information

A number of contributed modules reported issues following #3162016: [Symfony 6] Retrieving a non-string value from "Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\InputBag::get()" is deprecated (a change being made for Symfony 6 compatibility). This change has since been reverted.

Dependency updates since 9.1.0-beta3

Production dependencies

• Symfony 5 components have been updated from 5.3.0-RC1 to the 5.3.0 stable release.
• Symfony 4 components have been updated from 4.2.44 to 4.4.45.
• Various Symfony polyfills have been updated from 1.22.1 to 1.23.0.
• Diactoros has been updated from 2.5.1 to 2.6.0.
• Our internal dependency on composer/semver has been updated from 3.2.4 to 3.2.5.

Development dependencies

• Our internal composer/composer dependency has been updated to 2.1.0. While some users of composer-patches have reported issues with Composer 2.1, this internal dependency does not affect the version of Composer the site may use on the CLI.
• composer/xdebug-handler has also been updated from 1.4.6 to 2.0.1.

Known issues

Search the issue queue for known issues.

All changes since 9.2.0-beta3

• Issue #3217322 by effulgentsia, xjm, Gábor Hojtsy: Update dependencies except PHPUnit to latest releases as of June 3, 2021
• Revert "Issue #3162016 by longwave, andypost, Hardik_Patel_12, catch, alexpott, daffie, Kristen Pol: [Symfony 6] Retrieving a non-string value from "Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\InputBag::get()" is deprecated"
• Issue #3216088 by Spokje, xjm, longwave: Update Symfony 5 components to 5.3