1.18.0 Release

Module update

• Drupal Core from 8.9.16 to 8.9.17 https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-004 #258

Modules deprecated/removed

Nothing will be removed from the D8 distribution in this update.

Deployment information

• Deployments are also scheduled to commence from Thursday 5 August 2021 and will be conducted throughout the daytime and into the evening.

• No outages are expected to websites during the deployment process.

• The D8 distribution will continue to be supported after this update.

Important reminder for projects with configuration management enabled

Do not import any out of date configurations of these modules. This will cause fatal errors to your websites. Once the deployment is completed you will need to export the new configurations files and commit them back to master. Deployments to all websites should be completed by 8am Friday 6 August June 2021, you can confirm this at https://status.govcms.support/.

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support, alternatively subscribe to https://status.govcms.support/ for information on updates to the GovCMS platform

GovCMS 2.2.0 Release Notes

GovCMS 2.2.0 Release Notes
In response to Drupal’s second feature release of Drupal 9, the GovCMS team have updated the distribution accordingly.

Module update

• Drupal Core from 9.1.9 to 9.2.0 #234
  https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-9-2-0 https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/9.2.0
• Big Menu from 2.0.0-rc1 to 2.0.0-rc2 #195
  https://www.drupal.org/project/bigmenu/releases/2.0.0-rc2
• Inline Entity Form from 8.x-1.0-rc8 to 8.x-1.0-rc9 #194
  https://www.drupal.org/project/inline_entity_form/releases/8.x-1.0-rc9

Modules deprecated/removed

Nothing will be removed from the D9 distribution in this update.

Deployment information

Deployment is scheduled to commence on Monday 12 July 2021.
No outages are expected to websites during the deployment process.
The D9 distribution will continue to be supported after this update.

Important reminder for projects with configuration management enabled

Do not import any out of date configurations of these modules. This will cause fatal errors to your websites. Once the deployment is completed you will need to export the new configurations files and commit them back to master. Deployments to all websites should be completed by 6am Thursday 10 June 2021, you can confirm this at https://status.govcms.support/.

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support, alternatively subscribe to https://status.govcms.support/ for information on updates to the GovCMS platform

1.17.0 Release

Module update

• Drupal Core from 8.9.14 to 8.9.16 https://www.drupal.org/psa-2016-004 #210
• Chaos tools suite (CTOOLS) from 3.4 to 3.7 https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2021-015 #230
• Facets from 1.3 to 1.8 https://www.drupal.org/project/facets/releases/8.x-1.8 #205
• Context from 8.x-4.0-beta5 to 8.x-4.0-beta6 https://www.drupal.org/project/context/releases/8.x-4.0-beta6 #218
• Media entity file replace from 8.x-1.0-beta3 to 8.x-1.0 https://www.drupal.org/project/media_entity_file_replace/releases/8.x-1.0 #216
• Graphql from 8.x-3.0.0-rc2 to 8.x-3.1 https://www.drupal.org/project/graphql/releases/8.x-4.1 #225
• Big menu from 2.0.0-rc1 to 2.0.0-rc2 https://www.drupal.org/project/bigmenu/releases/2.0.0-rc2 #226
• Inline entity form from 8.x-1.0-rc8 to 8.x-1.0-rc9 https://www.drupal.org/project/inline_entity_form/releases/8.x-1.0-rc9 #227

Modules deprecated/removed

Nothing will be removed from the D8 distribution in this update.

Deployment information

• Deployments are also scheduled to commence from Monday 28 June 2021 and will be conducted throughout the daytime and into the evening.
• No outages are expected to websites during the deployment process.
• The D8 distribution will continue to be supported after this update.

Important reminder for projects with configuration management enabled

Do not import any out of date configurations of these modules. This will cause fatal errors to your websites. Once the deployment is completed you will need to export the new configurations files and commit them back to master. Deployments to all websites should be completed by 6am Tuesday 29 June 2021, you can confirm this at https://status.govcms.support/.

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support, alternatively subscribe to https://status.govcms.support/ for information on updates to the GovCMS platform

GovCMS 2.1.0 Release Notes

Module update

• Drupal Core from 9.1.8 to 9.1.9 #221
  https://www.drupal.org/psa-2016-004

• Context from 8.x-4.0-beta5 to 8.x-4.0-beta6 #219
  https://www.drupal.org/project/context/releases/8.x-4.0-beta6

• Media Entity File Replace from 8.x-1.0-beta3 to 8.x-1.0 #220
  https://www.drupal.org/project/media_entity_file_replace/releases/8.x-1.0

• Minor updates to login security, GovCMS bartik theme and dependabot #190 #214 #182

Modules deprecated/removed

Nothing will be removed from ANY of the distributions in this update.

Deployment information

Deployment is scheduled to commence on Wednesday 9 June 2021.
No outages are expected to websites during the deployment process.
The D9 distribution will continue to be supported after this update.

Important reminder for projects with configuration management enabled

Do not import any out of date configurations of these modules. This will cause fatal errors to your websites. Once the deployment is completed you will need to export the new configurations files and commit them back to master. Deployments to all websites should be completed by 6am Thursday 10 June 2021, you can confirm this at https://status.govcms.support/.

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support, alternatively subscribe to https://status.govcms.support/ for information on updates to the GovCMS platform

2.0.1

Modules Update

• update drupal/ctools (from 3.4 to 3.6)
• update drupal/facets (from 1.5 to 1.8)

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support, alternatively subscribe to https://status.govcms.support/ for information on updates to the GovCMS platform

If you have technical questions, create the requests in the issues register at https://github.com/govCMS/GovCMS/issues

If you would like to discuss your business requirements contact us at https://www.govcms.gov.au/contact-us

GovCMS D8 SaaS customers can book their D8 to D9 upgrade now https://www.govcms.gov.au/prepare-your-website-d9/book-your-d8-d9-migration-saas

2.0.0

This is the first stable release for the GovCMS Drupal 9 distribution – GovCMS2.0.0

Changes since GovCMS2.0.0-beta3:

• Add module_permissions module (3.0.0)
• Update drupal/swiftmailer requirement (from 2.0-beta1 to 2.0.0)
• Update drupal/components requirement (from 2.0-beta3 to 2.2.0)
• Update drupal/search_api (from 1.18 to 1.19)
• Update search_api_solr (from 4.1.7 to 4.1.11)
• Update drupal/search_api_attachments (from 1.0-beta16 to 8.x-1.0-beta17)
• Update drupal/ga_login requirement (from 1.0.0-alpha5 to 1.0.0-alpha6)
• Update drupal/linkit requirement (from 6.0.0-beta1 to 6.0.0-beta2)
• Bug fixes

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support, alternatively subscribe to https://status.govcms.support/ for information on updates to the GovCMS platform

If you have technical questions, create the requests in the issues register at https://github.com/govCMS/GovCMS/issues

If you would like to discuss your business requirements contact us at https://www.govcms.gov.au/contact-us

GovCMS D8 SaaS customers can book their D8 to D9 upgrade now https://www.govcms.gov.au/prepare-your-website-d9/book-your-d8-d9-migration-saas

2.0.0-beta3

Release notes

This release is not in a stable state and only for testing purpose.

Drupal Core update

• from 9.1.4 to 9.1.7

Drupal core's sanitization API fails to properly filter cross-site scripting under certain circumstances.

Not all sites and users are affected, but configuration changes to prevent the exploit might be impractical and will vary between sites. Therefore, we recommend all sites update to this release as soon as possible.

See: https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-002

Comments

It addresses a recent critical security advisory issued by Drupal.org. GovCMS assessed this risk as it applied to D9 distribution. Subsequently the security risk remained critical.

The GovCMS D9 distribution will continue to be supported after this update.

Modules deprecated/removed

• n/a

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support, alternatively subscribe to https://status.govcms.support/ for information on updates to the GovCMS platform

1.16.0 Release

Drupal Core update

• from 8.9.13 to 8.9.14

Drupal core's sanitization API fails to properly filter cross-site scripting under certain circumstances.

Not all sites and users are affected, but configuration changes to prevent the exploit might be impractical and will vary between sites. Therefore, we recommend all sites update to this release as soon as possible.

See: https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-002

Comments

It addresses a recent critical security advisory issued by Drupal.org. GovCMS assessed this risk as it applied to D8 distribution.

Deployment is scheduled from 28 April 2021 and will be conducted throughout the daytime and into the evening. No outages are expected to websites during the deployment process.

The GovCMS D8 distribution will continue to be supported after this update.

Modules deprecated/removed

• n/a

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support, alternatively subscribe to https://status.govcms.support/ for information on updates to the GovCMS platform

2.0.0-beta2

This release is not in a stable state and only for testing purpose.

Release notes

• [GOVCMSD9-205] [SA-CONTRIB-2021-004] Update Webform module to 6.0.2 (from 6.0.0-alpha20)
• [GOVCMSD9-262] Remove the govcms_install theme
• [GOVCMSD9-66] Removing drupal/graphql module D9

1.15.0

Modules update

• Mailsystem from 8.x-4.1 to 8.x-4.3
• Redirect from 8.x-1.3 to 8.x-1.6
• Search_API from 8.x-1.6 to 8.x-1.19
• Search_API_attachments from 8.x-1.0-beta16 to 8.x-1.0-beta17
• Search_API_Solr from 8.x-3.9 to 8.x-4.1.11
• Webform from 8.x-5.13 to 8.x-5.25

Comments

It addresses a recent critical security advisory issued by Drupal.org. GovCMS assessed this risk as it applied to D8 distribution. Subsequently the security risk was downgraded to moderately critical.

Deployment is scheduled on 31 March 2021 and will be conducted throughout the daytime and into the evening. No outages are expected to websites during the deployment process.

The GovCMS D8 distribution will continue to be supported after this update.

Modules deprecated/removed

• n/a

Important reminder for projects with configuration management enabled

Do not import any out of date configurations of these modules. This will cause fatal errors to your websites. Once the deployment is completed you will need to export the new configurations files and commit them back to master. Deployments to all websites should be completed by 6am Thursday 1 April 2021, you can confirm this at https://status.govcms.support/.

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support, alternatively subscribe to https://status.govcms.support/ for information on updates to the GovCMS platform