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+title: >
+  Should Drupal 7 support be extended again?
+pubDate: 2023-05-01
+permalink: >
+  archive/2023/05/01/should-drupal-7-support-be-extended-again
+tags:
+  - drupal
+  - php
+  - phpc
+---
+
+Drupal 7, which was released in 2011, was originally supposed to be end-of-life in November 2022.
+
+This would mean there would be no more Drupal 7 versions and there would be no further support or bug fixes from the core Developer team.
+
+However, in February 2022, support was extended until November 2023 with a potential for it to be extended by another 12 months, which would be announced by July 2023.
+
+There are still over 425,000 active Drupal 7 websites according to <https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal> - almost 100,000 fewer than Feburary 2022. That's still a lot of websites!
+
+Should support be extended again or should Drupal 7 be marked as end-of-life and unsupported?
+
+If so, those websites will continue to work, and an argument could be made that there's been enough time to upgrade projects since Drupal 8's first release in 2015.
+
+That said, it's a tricky upgrade - migrating data into a new Drupal website and re-writing custom modules and themes to make them compatible.
+
+It's definitely work upgrading, in my opinion, as the updates between Drupal 8, 9 and 10 are much simpler and quicker, and don't involve large rewrites or data migrations.
+
+Hit reply and let me know what you think.
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+P.S. Are you still using Drupal 7 and don’t know what’s involved to upgrade to Drupal 10? Book a <a href="https://www.oliverdavies.uk/call">Drupal 7 upgrade consultation call</a>.