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How do I upgrade Drupal Core?

Posted on November 20, 2014

How can I upgrade to the latest version of Drupal to 7.34 through SSH? https://www.drupal.org/drupal-7.34-release-notes

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boda

February 24, 2017

Just to update. Some might get this error.

Command pm-update needs a higher bootstrap level to run - you will need to invoke drush from a more functional Drupal environment to run this command.                                              [error]
The drush command 'pm-update' could not be executed.                                                [error]
Drush was not able to start (bootstrap) the Drupal database.                                          [error]

Andrew SB

November 20, 2014

The Drupal One-Click application comes with Drush, a command line tool for administering Drupal., pre-installed. It allows you to upgrade Drupal easily.

First change into the directory containing Drupal:

cd /var/www/html/drupal/

To check for an available update run:

drush pm-update -n

And to update to the new release, run:

drush pm-update drupal-7.34

For more info on what you can do with Drush, check out:

A Beginner’s Guide To Drush: The Drupal Shell

Yellows

May 5, 2017

Same here. Any solution?

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