A Drupal 4.6.4 quick-fix

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Posted 2 December 2005 - 1:18pm by Laura
Drupal

If you've already done your update to Drupal 4.6.4, you may have noticed that your admin tables aren't quite working right. That's because a little bug slipped through.

You can apply the patch yourself. Or you can download the attached file, unzip it and upload it into your /includes folder. (Usual disclaimer: While this file has tested well and performed as expected on our sites, it is offered as-is, with no warranty.)

(Note to our supported hosting clients: Your sites have been updated already.)

If you have yet to do your update from Drupal 4.6.3, you can simply:

  1. Backup your site (folders and database), as you always do before a site update;
  2. Download Drupal 4.6.4 and unzip the tarball;
  3. Replace /includes/common.inc with the unzipped file attached here;
  4. Using sftp or shell, upload the files in /modules, /includes and /scripts (as these subfolders contain all the updated files), as well as the changelog.txt. There were no database changes.

That should do it. Be sure to test your site before running off to do other things.

If you're still running Drupal 4.6.2 (or 4.5.5) or an earlier version of Drupal, you really should look at updating. Here's why.

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Comments


4 December 2005 - 12:18pm
deekayen says:

Thanks for the pointer. Too bad the fix will probably stay kind of hidden until the next security update.



5 December 2005 - 4:23pm
two2the8 says:

Thanks so much -- fixed the last barrier to getting my site up on Drupal. Yay!



14 December 2005 - 4:55pm
guest says:

Was a little worried there. New Drupal user checking in, got 4.6.4 and loved it, except I noticed a bunch of bugs. Sure there are lots of fixes and patches, but this one particularly drove me nuts.

This patch fixed it right up, no worries. Thanks a ton!



14 December 2005 - 10:25pm
Laura's picture
Laura says:

That 4.6.5 is now out, with mostly minor fixes including this one.



28 August 2007 - 3:12am

I have been triying to find a solution in upgrading civicspace to drupal 4.6 . How could i move my civicspace into drupal? I don't know what to do. Is there anyone who could help me explaining what should i do step by step?

my civicspace version is CivicSpace 0.8.2.x



28 August 2007 - 9:45am
Laura's picture
Laura says:

In theory, you would disable the modules that are not part of Drupal core and then upgrade Drupal.

I would recommend upgrading to Drupal 5.2. The toughest upgrade is from 4.6 to 4.7, but from 4.7 to 5.2 is pretty straightforward.