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Update your existing Drupal 8 website to 8.8 version in just five minutes! image: https://e.joshics.in/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/JOSHI-30072020-filled-background-Sep-16-2021-11-58-28-53-AM.png --- [Skip to content](https://e.joshics.in/blog/drupal-8-update-five-minutes#main-content) ![JOSHI-23052020-Bold-Tag-Full-text-high-res](https://e.joshics.in/hs-fs/hubfs/JOSHI-23052020-Bold-Tag-Full-text-high-res.jpg?width=1432&height=527&name=JOSHI-23052020-Bold-Tag-Full-text-high-res.jpg) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Contact us](http://jos.cx/contact) [Contact us](http://jos.cx/contact) Sep 16, 2020 5:27:45 PM # Drupal 8: Update to Drupal 8.8 in five minutes [Bhavin Joshi](https://e.joshics.in/blog/author/bhavin-joshi) Share: [facebook-f icon](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://e.joshics.in/blog/drupal-8-update-five-minutes) [linkedin-in icon](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://e.joshics.in/blog/drupal-8-update-five-minutes) [Twitter icon](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://e.joshics.in/blog/drupal-8-update-five-minutes) [pinterest-p icon](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://e.joshics.in/blog/drupal-8-update-five-minutes) [envelope icon](mailto:?body=https://e.joshics.in/blog/drupal-8-update-five-minutes) Finally, we are one more step closer to Drupal 9. In order to make your Drupal 8 website ready for Drupal 9, you will need to update your existing website to Drupal 8.8, the latest stable release in 8.8.x branch. This branch removes all the incompatible APIs and prepares your website for Drupal 9. And which is why, It is highly recommended that you update to 8.8. Before you start with the update, make sure you take backup of your website (code base & DB) or preferably, carry out this process on a staging site or on your local Drupal 8 set up. For this, it is assumed that you have composer installed for your Drupal 8 environment. ## Modify composer.json   The first step is to modify composer.json manually. 1. Unset / empty `“replace”: {},` 2. Remove `"merge-plugin"` entirely. 3. Append `“App\\”: “app/”, “”: ”src/”` to “autoload” Once you are done with modifying the composer.json, it is time to execute a few commands with composer on CLI. ## Execute composer commands `composer remove webflo/drupal-core-strict --no-update` `composer remove drupal/core --no-update` `composer require 'composer/installers:^1.7' --no-update` `rm composer.lock` `rm -rf core` `rm -rf vendor` `composer require drupal/core-recommended:^8.8 --update-with-dependencies` Now, sit back and relax while composer performs the update. Once the updates are downloaded, it is time to perform the db updates using `drush updb`. Congratulations! You have successfully updated your existing Drupal 8 website to 8.8 and you are now ready for Drupal 9! [Trouble? 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