<p>Now <a href="/daily/2024/06/23/drupal-10-3-released">Drupal 10.3 has been released</a>, and <a href="/daily/2024/06/29/countdown-to-drupal-11">websites need to be updated to 10.3 before Drupal 11</a>, it's time to start updating your Drupal 10 websites.</p>
<p>Luckily, with Composer, upgrading is one simple command.</p>
<p>There's no need to download .tar.gz or .zip files or update version numbers in a Drush Make file any more.</p>
<p>If you want to update everything, a simple <code>composer update</code> will do.</p>
<p>If you want to only update Drupal core, then you'll need to run something like <code>composer update drupal/core</code> or <code>composer update drupal/core-*</code>, or something slightly different if you're using a distribution like Commerce Kickstart or LocalGov Drupal.</p>
<p>I think adopting Composer was one of the best decisions the Drupal project made - not only <a href="/daily/2024/06/09/proudly-found-elsewhere">to include third-party code</a>, such as Symfony components, but it also makes applications so much easier to update.</p>
<p>Now <a href="/daily/2024/06/23/drupal-10-3-released">Drupal 10.3 has been released</a>, and <a href="/daily/2024/06/29/countdown-to-drupal-11">websites need to be updated to 10.3 before Drupal 11</a>, it's time to start updating your Drupal 10 websites.</p>
<p>Luckily, with Composer, upgrading is one simple command.</p>
<p>There's no need to download .tar.gz or .zip files or update version numbers in a Drush Make file any more.</p>
<p>If you want to update everything, a simple <code>composer update</code> will do.</p>
<p>If you want to only update Drupal core, then you'll need to run something like <code>composer update drupal/core</code> or <code>composer update drupal/core-*</code>, or something slightly different if you're using a distribution like Commerce Kickstart or LocalGov Drupal.</p>
<p>I think adopting Composer was one of the best decisions the Drupal project made - not only <a href="/daily/2024/06/09/proudly-found-elsewhere">to include third-party code</a>, such as Symfony components, but it also makes applications so much easier to update.</p>