Drush make, great tool for building Drupal web sites
Drush is a powerful tool for building Drupal web sites. Here is much more information about Drush commands: https://drushcommands.com/
How to install Drush: http://docs.drush.org/en/8.x/install/
Here are some examples of how you can use it to update modules, as well as how to update Drupal core to a specific version.
Create a fresh project in a folder called "drupal" from make-file, with both core and modules
drush make project_name.make.yml drupal --verbose
Update some modules, according to the version number in make-file. Note how you need to declare not to update Drupal core with "--no-core", otherwise you get the error "Base path drupal already exists"
drush make --no-core project_name.make.yml drupal --verbose
Generate make file, based on current modules in project
drush generate-makefile make-current.yml
Update Drupal core to specific version
drush up drupal-8.3.6
Update to latest Drupal core version
drush up drupal
Only update core and modules, if there is a security-release for them
drush up --security-only
Example make.yml, with versions, generated with drush generate-makefile:
core: 8.x api: 2 projects: drupal: version: 8.3.7 admin_toolbar: version: '1.16' ctools: version: '3.0' pathauto: version: '1.0' search_api: version: '1.4' search_api_autocomplete: version: 1.0-beta1 token: version: '1.0' bootstrap: version: '3.6'
Example make.yml, without versions, latest versions will be downloaded. Also, target folders for modules and themes are defined
# Drupal core version core: '8.x' # Drush Make API version api: 2 # Default folder for contrib modules defaults: projects: subdir: 'contrib' # Core project projects: drupal: version: ~ # Common modules and themes admin_toolbar: version: ~ piwik: version: ~ # SEARCH search_api: version: ~ search_api_autocomplete: version: ~ # Pathauto and required modules ctools: version: ~ pathauto: version: ~ token: version: ~ # Migrate modules migrate_plus: version: ~ migrate_tools: version: ~ migrate_source_csv: version: ~ # Bootstrap theme bootstrap: version: ~ type: 'theme' subdir: ''