Date: 
Monday, Aug 9th, 2021
Security risk: 
Moderately Critical
Vulnerabilities: 
  • Third Party Libraries
  • To Be Announced
Description: 

The Backdrop Security Team will be coordinating a security release for Backdrop 1.19 and 1.18 this week on Thursday, August 12, 2021. 

We are issuing this PSA in advance because August 12, 2021 is not a security window in the regular Drupal security release window schedule, and since we coordinate security releases with Drupal, there would not normally be any security release on this date.

The Backdrop core release will be made between 16:00 – 22:00 UTC (noon – 6:00pm EDT). It is rated as moderately critical and will be an update to a vendor library only.

 

Security email list

Backdrop maintains a security mailing list. Whenever a security release comes out, an email will be sent to everyone subscribed to that list, announcing the new release. Please follow the steps below to join the Security email list.

  1. Log in to backdropcms.org
  2. Edit your profile
  3. Switch to the "Subscriptions" tab
  4. Check the box labeled "Security updates"
  5. Save the form