Automatic Updates

Package Manager is a framework for updating Drupal core and installing contributed modules and themes via Composer. It has no user interface, but it provides an API for creating a temporary copy of the current site, making changes to the copy, and then syncing those changes back into the live site.

Automatic Updates Initiative

Follow and read more on the Automatic Updates Initiative overview and roadmap.

Updating contrib modules and themes

Automatic Updates includes a sub-module, Automatic Updates Extensions, which supports updating contributed modules and themes.

⚠️ ☢️️ Automatic Updates Extensions is still experimental and under heavy development. We encourage you to test it in your local development environment, or another low-stakes testing situation, but it is emphatically NOT ready for use in a production environment. ☢️ ⚠️

More info

Get more details about the Package Manager module, once installed, at it help page (admin/help/package_manager).