By jacobadoy on

I have a client who is updating their Drupal version from 5.2 to 5.4. They have several modules and I was wondering if there is a way to check which ones will need to be updated. I am a wordpress person and wordpress shows which plugins need to be updated and i was wondering if Drupal does something similar. I downloaded the version 5.4 and have uploaded their modules.

Any help will be appreciated.

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john_b commented

Drupal 7 does this for modules and themes but not for core. Not Drupal 5 AFAIK.

Why would they do that? The latest version of 5 is 5.23. Drupal 5 is unmaintained and has not benefited from important Drupal security fixes and keeping it going in the latest version, let alone 5.4, is like saying "please hack me".

Drush updates everything in seconds from command line (as does wp-cli for Wordpress). But if Drupal core or any module has been 'hacked' the update will overwrite and so lose the hack and probably break the site, so you should first check for that. Anyway, if it is unprofessional to update Wordpress without running updates on a test site with test database first, it is doubly risky with Drupal owing to its greater complexity, so you will hopefully catch any problems caused by overwriting hacked modules when you run your test. At the very least after update often you need to remember to reinstate any www redirect in .htaccess (which the update may have overwritten).

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