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.

⚠️ ☢️️ Depending on the contributed module or theme, updates to these projects could make the site inoperable. If possible, it is highly recommended that you test these updates in a development environment first.☢️ ⚠️

More info

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