{"id":924,"date":"2018-09-18T12:57:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:54:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:54:43","slug":"drupal-7-8-and-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/drupal-7-8-and-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Know the future of Drupal 7, 8 and 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/drupal-7-8-and-9-versions-1.jpg\" alt=\"Future of drupal 7, 8 and 9 versions\" width=\"999\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/drupal-7-8-and-9-versions-1.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/drupal-7-8-and-9-versions-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/drupal-7-8-and-9-versions-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/drupal-7-8-and-9-versions-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/drupal-7-8-and-9-versions-1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drupal release update by <strong><u><em>Dries Buytaert<\/em><\/u><\/strong> from his blog\u00a0for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raghwendra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drupal version 7, 8 and 9<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/strong> After discussion with Drupal 7 core committers, the Drupal 8 core committers and the Drupal security team, he shared the long-term engagement of Drupal version 7, 8 and 9.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Drupal 9\u00a0will be released in 2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Drupal 9 has to be released in 2020 as Drupal 8 comes to an end by 2021. The site owners will be given 1 year to upgrade from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9.<\/p>\n<p>Moving from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 is very easy compared to the previous major version upgrades. The contributed modules will be compatible with Drupal 8 and Drupal 9 at the same time.<\/p>\n<h3>Drupal 8 will be end-of-life November 2021<\/h3>\n<p>The end of Drupal 8 will be seen by Nov 2021.<\/p>\n<p>New functionality in minor versions are seen in Drupal 8 which maintains the backward compatibility and because of this approach the release of Drupal 9 is not encouraged. This cannot happen as Drupal must be kept modern, maintainable and more secured to supported versions of 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party apps.<\/p>\n<p>One more biggest dependency in Drupal 8 is Symfony 3. Symfony 3 comes to an end in Nov 2021 which means that after Nov 2021, bugs in symphony 3 will not get fixed and hence Drupal 8 has to see its end by Nov 2021.<\/p>\n<h4>Drupal 7 will be supported until November 2021<\/h4>\n<p>Drupal 7 will be supported till November 2021. Drupal 7 will be updated to support newer versions of PHP and therefore the PHP team will not support the following on the respective dates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PHP 5.x on Dec 31<sup>st<\/sup> 2018,<\/li>\n<li>PHP 7.0 on Dec 3<sup>rd<\/sup> 2018,<\/li>\n<li>PHP 7.1 on 1<sup>st<\/sup> Dec 2019 and<\/li>\n<li>PHP 7.2 on 30<sup>th<\/sup> Nov 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Conclusion Which versions of Drupal we can use?<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are on Drupal 7 update your PHP versions and you may to stay on it till 2021 and can go with directly on Drupal 9 later.<\/li>\n<li>If you are on Drupal 8, just keep the site up to date and get ready for Drupal 9.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <strong>Blog by Dries Buytaert (Founder and project lead of Drupal)<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/dri.es\/drupal-7-8-and-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/dri.es\/drupal-7-8-and-9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Drupal release update by Dries Buytaert from his blog\u00a0for Drupal version 7, 8 and 9. 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