Drupal 7.9, a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) is now available for download. Several critical bugs with the OpenID have been addressed in this release, among other critical and major bugs, and a few new API features. See the Drupal 7.9 release notes for a full listing.
Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement.
Security information
We have a security announcement mailing list, a history of all security advisories, and an RSS feed with the most recent security advisories. We strongly advise Drupal administrators to sign up for the list.
Drupal 7 includes the built-in Update status module, which informs you about important updates to your modules and themes.
There are no security fixes in this release of Drupal core.
Bug reports
Drupal 7.x is being maintained, so given enough bug fixes (not just bug reports), a new maintenance release will be made available the last Wednesday of next month (November 30).
Changelog
Drupal 7.9 is mainly a bug fix release. The full list of changes between the 7.8 and 7.9 releases can be found by reading the 7.9 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable 7.x branch can be found in the git commit log.
Update notes
- Upon first upgrading to 7.9, there are reports of Panels Pages going missing at #1323162: Panels disappear after updating core to 7.9. Solution is to clear the cache.
Known issues
- Using drush si in Drush 5.x causes error #1314392: drush site-install on Drupal 7.9 fails with a fatal error "Call to undefined function cache_get()". The fix is to apply the patch at http://drupal.org/node/673020#comment-5106306 or update to the latest -dev release of D7.