It's been quiet on the 3281d blog for a while, but not because of a lack of interesting things happening. Quite the contrary, I've been so busy that I haven't made time to write. To break the silence, I'm going to start with a status report about the Update manager in D7 core -- Drupal can now (securely) update itself when new releases are available if you tell it to! It's an incredible new feature that will remove a major source of pain for a large set of Drupal users and help keep more Drupal sites running the latest, most secure releases. However, there are a lot of rough edges to fix before the 7.0 release, and help is urgently needed to get this feature fully fleshed out in time.

In this report, you'll find:

• Background about the Update manager


• How it works


• How to turn it off if you don't want it


• What's left and how you can help

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