Drupal 7.79
9 April 2021
Drupal version 7.79 is now available.
Upgrading to Drupal 7.79
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What's New in Drupal 7.79
Highlights
- Support for SameSite attribute on cookies
- Avoid field storage write when field content did not change - potentially significant performance improvement which is opt-in for existing sites
- Password reset confirmation form changes
- New PHP Warning emitted in PHP 8 when a database rollback is attempted with no active transaction in MySQL
- UI text change: Images must be smaller than !max pixels - n.b. translation impact
- Removed updateCallback and errorCallback parameters from the progress bar
Changes
- Call to undefined function drupal_get_path_alias() in url()
- Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in menu_get_active_breadcrumb()
- Remove all occurences of sourceMappingURL and sourceURL when JS files are aggregated
- Unnecessary looping in filter_xss() when processing attributes
- Trailing space in menu.inc
- [PHP 8] test failures in Drupal error handlers
- [PHP 8] deprecated functions in OpenID
- [PHP 8] test failures in User administration
- [PHP 8] test failures in Form element validation
- [PHP 8] Error: User-supplied statement does not accept constructor arguments in PDO->prepare()
- MySQL on [PHP 8] now errors when committing or rolling back when there is no active transaction
- Inaccurate text: Images must be smaller than !max pixels
- Remove dead code from ajax.js: progress.upload_callback, progress.error_callback
- [PHP 8] Fix DatabaseConnection::query signature mismatch with PDO::query
- [PHP 8] Parameter order fixes
- [PHP 8] ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function _drupal_error_handler() and friends
- A valid one-time login link may be leaked by the referer header to 3rd parties
- Set samesite cookie attribute for PHP sessions
- Do not attempt field storage write when field content did not change
- hardening of destructor in Archive_Tar