By mstaab on

Hi,

I'm using version 7.8 and have gotten notification that a security update for the Drupal core is available. Checking the available updates page shows that, yes, core version 7.8 is currently installed and is recommending update to version 7.12 ?! I've been using Drupal off and on for years and have updated several installs, major releases, etc. (marvelous program, btw, it has always seemed to work as it should); but I've not had an occasion where the recommended update was a lower version number that the version currently installed.

Likely this issue has been addressed elsewhere, but I'm not finding it. Is there help for this issue?

Mark

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bawoor’s picture

bawoor commented

the word update is meaning for new version. for old version you can downgrade manually in all released version download page.

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mstaab commented

Bawor,

Thank you for the link. I will use it when I can be certain that version 7.12 is an upgrade higher than version 7.8, which I have currently installed. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but the convention for incremental upgrade should be 7.81 or 7.82 or 7.83 or even 7.9, etc.?

Mark

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nevets commented

Unless I misunderstand you are say you have 7.8 installed and the recommend update version is 7.12 and 12 is greater than 8.

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mstaab commented

Erm, maybe, Steve. I've not come across it before with versioning increments, e.g. 7.12 would be higher than 7.08, certainly; but not 7.8 -- I could be wrong, tho'.

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nevets commented

Look at the number after the '.' as a whole number, not a fraction.

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mstaab commented

Thanks, Steve. Actually, if I would have scrolled down further in the link provided by Bawor and reviewed the succession of releases since 7.8, i.e. 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, and now 7.12, I might have figured it out for myself. An article on software versioning on Wikipedia suggests this counter-intuitive sequencing is because, on certain systems, 7.08 returns as 7.8 for some reason . . .

Anyway, thanks again to you and Bawor for taking the time to help. I learned something new (I think). :)