Drupal 6.8 and Drupal 5.14 Released

Drupal officially announced the release of Drupal 6.8 and Drupal 5.14 on 11th Dec, 2008. There are no significance changes on Drupal 6.8 and Drupal 5.14; Drupal 6.8 and Drupal 5.14 are slight updates to Drupal 6.7 and 5.13 including the bug tracking system and critical security vulnerabilities.

To read the full list of changes between the 6.7 and 6.8 releases, please visit 6.8 release notes. To read the full list of changes between the 5.13 and 5.14 releases, please visit 5.14 release notes.

Drupal also instantly enhanced security vulnerabilities on its releases. There are two ways to fix security problems:

Upgrade Drupal
Patch Drupal

For enhanced security Drupal recommended upgrading Drupal, however you can also patch Drupal. For more details on security please read Drupal official security advisory at SA-2008-073.

Drupal strongly recommends updating Drupal 5.X and 6.x sites with these versions. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement, more information on the 5.x releases can be found in Drupal 5.0 release announcement.

To refresh the menu cache and other caches on the website it is important to run update.php. Please note that, these releases will change .htaccess and robots.txt. For more information please visit http://drupal.org/drupal-6.8.

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