9/24/2023 0 Comments Drupal 7 latest version![]() ![]() Thanks to Damien McKenna, Paige Eaton, Erin Fogel, and Jess Snyder. Stay tuned to nonprofit Drupal channels for news. Once you’re on D8, keep your site up-to-date! As always, we promise to keep watching this space, and to share back what we learn. When you choose contributed modules, stick to the Drupal Superhighway as much as you can. Is a Drupal site right for you, but your org is not swimming in gold bullion web development dollars? On Drupal 7 still? Continue working toward moving to D8, as soon as you can. We can plan as best we can with the information we have, but we also have to do some waiting-and-seeing. But for the moment, there’s a lot of hope that this new release model will be manageable. Is any of this set in stone? As Damien said in his disclaimer on that call, some of it is, but a lot of it is still in flux. It will be nothing like the radical changes that happened under the hood between Drupal 7 and 8.įor more in-depth information on all of this, please see this overview of the Drupal 7 and 8 EOL announcement, by the always-helpful Damien McKenna of Mediacurrent. Ostensibly, this means that if you’ve got a healthy, up-to-date Drupal 8 site, an upgrade to Drupal 9 will be fairly minor. When Drupal 9 is released, it will be the same as the latest Drupal 8 release, but it will no longer include any of those deprecated building blocks. Just like we don’t want to have Drupal sites that the Drupal community no longer supports, Drupal doesn’t want to depend on a building block that is no longer being fixed and maintained. Over the next year, Drupal Core maintainers will be going through the codebase to see what parts of Drupal’s API depend on bits of PHP, Symfony, Twig, etc. that will be changed or retired in the next releases of those systems. That means that when these building blocks get deprecated, and are no longer supported by their communities with security releases, changes, and enhancements, then those bricks need to be upgraded in Drupal core so that Drupal core stays secure and functional. It’s extremely important to the Drupal community that Drupal core remains secure. If Drupal is a LEGO set, its bricks include PHP, Symfony, Twig, and a few other frameworks. Drupal 8's API is built on top of several other codebases. By this, we mean that when you choose contributed modules to extend Drupal’s core functionality, choose well-vetted, heavily-used, “best practices” modules as much as you can. ![]() Keep it up to date! Because up-to-date sites are more secure, and will be the most seamless to upgrade to D9.Here’s Our Recommendation in the Meantime (which hasn’t really changed) This is really different from how it’s ever worked, and underscores how similar the two versions are intended to be. Major contributed modules will be usable in both Drupal 8 and 9, simultaneously. The D8-D9 upgrade is planned to be much less dramatic than any major version upgrade in the past, because the code between the versions will be very similar. This is a new release model, and it’s really different. ![]() If your org is still on Drupal 7, then why should you bother upgrading to 8? Should you wait for 9? OMG?! Don’t Panic! There’s a Reasonable Plan At the moment, 4 out of 5 Drupal sites are still on Drupal 7, and about 20% are on Drupal 8. How Does this Affect Resource-constrained Nonprofits Using Drupal?Īt first glance, this seems pretty concerning. Your site's data and infrastructure would be at a much higher risk of hacking than usual. Why is Being on a Supported Version Important?īeing on a version of Drupal that's "no longer supported" means that it will not be updated when new security vulnerabilities are discovered. "End of Life" (EOL) means that a version is no longer supported by core maintainers with fixes, security releases, or enhancements.ĭrupal 9 is now scheduled to be released in 2020, giving people a year to upgrade from version 8 to version 9, before Drupal 8's EOL. This week, Dries announced at DrupalEurope, and on his blog, that November 2021 will be the End of Life date for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8. For more details on this, please see our updates in our post, Extending Drupal 7's End of Life: What's a nonprofit to do now? An Update. June 29, 2020: Drupal 7 end of life was extended to November 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then again to November 2023. ![]()
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