Drupal 7.8, a maintenance release with numerous bug fixes (no security fixes) is now available for download. A critical bug with the upgrade path, #1164852: Inconsistencies in field language handling has been addressed in this release, among other critical and major bugs. See the Drupal 7.8 release notes for a full listing.
Upgrading your existing Drupal 7 sites is strongly recommended. There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 7.x release series, consult the Drupal 7.0 release announcement.
Changelog
Drupal 7.8 is a bug fix only release. The full list of changes between the 7.7 and 7.8 releases can be found by reading the 7.8 release notes. A complete list of all bug fixes in the stable 7.x branch can be found in the git commit log.
Update notes
Addresses critical upgrade path issue #1164852: Inconsistencies in field language handling. The 7.8 release notes have more information for site builders who hit this issue in Drupal 7.7.
Known issues
Due to stricter error handling in Drupal 7.8 around entities, users of the Media module are experiencing EntityMalformedException errors. A workaround is posted at http://drupal.org/node/1266620#comment-4941950 and engineers are actively working on a new release.
