Drupal 7 core release on Wednesday, October 14
Start:
2015-10-14 (All day) America/New_York
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)
Organizers:
The monthly Drupal core bug fix/feature release window was last week, but after being postponed by a few days will now be this week instead. Since it has been a while since the last release, I plan to release Drupal 7.40 this Wednesday, October 14.
The final patches for 7.40 have been committed and the code is frozen (excluding documentation fixes and fixes for any regressions that may be found in the next couple days). So, now is a wonderful time to update your development/staging servers to the latest 7.x code and help us catch any regressions in advance.
There are three relevant change records for Drupal 7.40 which are listed below. This is not the full list of changes, rather only a list of notable API additions and other changes that might affect a number of other modules, so it's a good place to start looking for any problems:
- Project namespaces can now be added for module dependencies
- If the PHP version is new enough, MySQL PDO no longer allows multiple database queries to be executed at the same time
- Default thousand separator for numeric fields changed from ' ' to '' e.g. '1 000' to '1000'
You might also be interested in the tentative CHANGELOG.txt for Drupal 7.40 and the corresponding list of important issues that will be highlighted in the Drupal 7.40 release notes.
If you do find any regressions, please report them in the issue queue. Thanks!
Upcoming release windows after this week include:
- Wednesday, October 21 (security release window)
- Wednesday, November 4 (bug fix/feature release window)
For more information on Drupal core release windows, see the documentation on release timing and security releases, and the discussion that led to this policy being implemented.