Last night the Drupal project released a security and bug fix release (full release notes), and today we're releasing a new tag which includes the fixes and the backport of the Watchdog hook patch. The new tag is 2008-01-11s. We have notes on updating your current version at our instructions for maintaining tagged releases on your VPS. We have not yet released this to hosted service customers, but we intend to do so very soon, and we will post that here when we do. The release adds no new features or modules, but we did update our backport for the Watchdog hook and released the updated patch to Drupal.org (5.6-specific backport).

The release notes recommend that if you have register_globals setting in php.ini set to On, that you set it to Off immediately. Bryght VPS servers come with this setting Off by default, so you probably do not have to change anything. If you think you need to change the setting, however, login to your VPS via SSH and type sudo nano /etc/php.ini and change the setting in the configuration file.

This release does not have any database updates, but it's still a good idea to backup your site before you run the update.php script. It's all in our instructions in maintaining your version of Drupal 5 on your VPS. The error for Google Analytics in the status log still persists; the fix is still to configure the module in Administer » Settings » Google Analytics.