Update Drupal Core (Minor update procedure)

Update Drupal Core

Last updated May 5, 2013. Created by chiragjain on March 22, 2012.

Edited by ssiruguri, talvi, shamio, laura s. Log in to edit this page.

For the most complete documentation for upgrading an existing Drupal site,
seehttp://drupal.org/upgrade.

Instructions on how to update Drupal core with a newer version of Drupal of the same category or same base version [ ie Drupal 6/7/8]

1. Make a backup of your Drupal instance. (For ex: with MySQL)
2. Download the latest release of your current Drupal version.
3. Extract the [tar ball or zip] Drupal package.
4. Set your site on maintenance mode (For ex: How on D7)
5. Delete all the files & folders inside your original Drupal instance except for /sites folder and any custom files you added elsewhere.
6. Copy all the folders and files except /sites from inside the extracted Drupal package [tar ball or zip package] into your original Drupal instance.
7. If the update release includes changes to settings.php replace old settings.php in.../sites/default/ with the new one, and edit site-specific entries (eg database name, user, and password)
8. If you modified files such as .htaccess or robots.txt re-apply those changes to the new files.
9. Login to your site as administrator or as user no 1
10. Run update.php by navigating to http://...yourdrupalsitename/update.php
11. Follow the process to update your Drupal instance
12. Disable maintenance mode