Everything you need to know about Drupal 9

The launch of Drupal 9 is upon us! But what does this launch actually mean for you if you already have a Drupal site?

Well, Drupal 7 and 8 will reach end-of-life in November 2021 so in order to keep your website secure and protect it from vulnerabilities, it’ll need to be upgraded to Drupal 9 before then.

This guide answers all your questions on Drupal 9 - why Drupal 9 is launching, the key dates you’ll need to work towards and the steps you’ll need to take to protect your website and upgrade.

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Why release Drupal 9?

With the release of Drupal 8 and it’s innovation model, it’s now pretty straightforward to add new features and continuously improve Drupal. So why do we even need Drupal 9? Why can’t we continue releasing as part of Drupal 8?

Firstly, in order to keep Drupal modern, maintainable and performant, deprecated functionality needs to be removed. As Drupal 8 has evolved, there are now better ways to solve certain problems, and other problems are no longer relevant. So Drupal 9 is an opportunity to clean up the codebase and remove any unused capabilities from Drupal 8.

Additionally, as Drupal makes use of other open-source technologies (notably the PHP-based Symfony framework) its release cycles need to be more closely aligned with these other systems, syncing with their release timelines to stay on secure, supported versions. That’s why Drupal 8’s end of life coincides with Symfony’s 3’s.

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