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Is Drupal declining?
Looking at the stats it’s clear that the market share for Drupal has steadily declined over the last ten years, with one trusted source W3 Techs showing the current share down from 7.1% in 2010 to 2.3% in May of this year.
Is Drupal 7 dead?
It’s official – Drupal 7 will be sailing off into the sunset in November of 2021. Drupal’s creator and evangelist, Dries Buytaert, has confirmed that the community will be ending support for this project at the same time as Drupal 8. Drupal 7 is still the most widely used version of Drupal on the internet today.
Is it possible to jump from Drupal 7 to drupsal 9?
If you want to skip over Drupal 8 entirely, you can jump directly to Drupal 9. The Drupal 7 migration ecosystem is still available in Drupal 9. Drupal 9 contains the same migrate_drupal module you need to migrate to Drupal 8.
When is the best time to upgrade from Drupal 7 to 9?
Before the release of Drupal 9, the best path for Drupal 7 sites to upgrade to Drupal 9 was to upgrade to Drupal 8. The big selling point in Drupal 9’s evolution is that updating from a late version of Drupal 8 to Drupal 9.0 is more like an incremental upgrade than the massive replatforming effort that the older Drupal migrations used to entail.
Is there any difference between Drupal 8 and 9?
Drupal 9 is identical to the final Drupal 8 release, but with deprecated code removed and third party dependencies updated. Upgrading to Drupal 8 first will make the eventual upgrade to Drupal 9 far easier. There are three key tools used when migrating a Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8 or Drupal 9:
When is the end of life for Drupal 7?
Since we expected a large number of sites to still be using Drupal 7 in 2020, we originally decided to extend community support of Drupal 7 until November 2021. Now, in light of the impact of COVID-19 on our community, we have now extended Drupal 7’s support and moved the end-of-life date to November 28, 2022.