GovCMS D9 update 2.8.0 (January 2022)

Scheduled Maintenance Report for GovCMS

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Posted Jan 27, 2022 - 10:49 AEDT

Scheduled

Who is affected: GovCMS Drupal D9 community

Advice
GovCMS released the Drupal 9 (D9) distribution on Friday 21 January 2022. Deployment is scheduled to commence from Monday 24 January 2022 and will be conducted throughout the daytime and into the evening.
It addresses a recent security advisory issued by Drupal.org. GovCMS assessed the moderately critical risks as they applied to D9 distribution, subsequently the security risks remained moderately critical.
No outages are expected to websites during the deployment process.

What is included in the update?

* Drupal Core from 9.2.9 to 9.2.10 - https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases/9.2.10
* Simple OAuth module from 5.0.5 to 5.2.0 - https://www.drupal.org/project/simple_oauth/releases/5.2.0, https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2022-002
* Devel module from 4.1.1 to 4.1.3 - https://www.drupal.org/project/devel/releases/4.1.3
* Honeypot module from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 - https://www.drupal.org/project/honeypot/releases/2.0.2
* Key module from 1.14 to 1.15.0 - https://www.drupal.org/project/key/releases/8.x-1.15
* Layout Builder Restrictions module from 2.9 to 2.11.0 - https://www.drupal.org/project/layout_builder_restrictions/releases/8.x-2.11
* Search API module from 1.20.0 to 1.21. - https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api/releases/8.x-1.21
* Swiftmailer module from 2.0.0 to 2.2.0 - https://www.drupal.org/project/swiftmailer/releases/8.x-2.2
* Swiftmailer library from 6.2.7 to 6.3.0 - https://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/releases/tag/v6.3.0
* Token module from 1.9.0. to 1.10.0 - https://www.drupal.org/project/token/releases/8.x-1.10

What modules are added/removed in the distribution?
Nothing was added/removed from the distribution

What support will be provided after these update?
The D9 distribution will continue to be supported after this update.

What actions must my organisation do now?

SaaS customers
All customers will need to check their site after the deployment to ensure there aren’t any issues.
!!! Important notice for customers with configuration management enabled
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 9am Tuesday 25 January 2022, you can confirm this at https://status.govcms.support

PaaS customers
If you use the GovCMS D9 distribution. You should aim to apply this update to your distribution as soon as possible.
Updated files released on Friday 21 January 2022 and are available from https://github.com/govCMS/GovCMS/releases/tag/2.8.0

More information

If you have any concerns, raise a ticket at https://www.govcms.support. Alternatively subscribe above to keep up to date with GovCMS notifications.

Posted Jan 24, 2022 - 09:57 AEDT

This scheduled maintenance affected: GovCMS Projects (Individual websites).