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title: Upgrading your site to Drupal 9
description:
  How to update your site to Drupal 9, and why it's much different to any major Drupal version upgrade before!
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events:
  - name: Drupal NYC meetup
    url: https://midwestphp.org/talks/7C0m4I87vq72cDoXvsHFRp/Upgrading_your_site_to_Drupal_9
    date: 2020-09-02
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  - name: Leeds PHP
    location: Leeds, UK
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For most Drupal Developers and users, the idea of moving a project from onemajor version of Drupal to another can be daunting, with modules and themeshaving to being changed significantly or rebuilt completely, and data beingmigrated from the old site to the new one.

This was no more so than the move from Drupal 7 to 8, but luckily this haschanged for Drupal 9 and an upgrade can be done with minimal changes and not adata migration in sight!

In this talk, we'll look at some of the changes to Drupal's tools and processesthat have made this possible, and how to move your Drupal site to Drupal 9.