{ "uuid": [ { "value": "eb2695c7-b0e6-4557-9745-04a59239f966" } ], "langcode": [ { "value": "en" } ], "type": [ { "target_id": "daily_email", "target_type": "node_type", "target_uuid": "8bde1f2f-eef9-4f2d-ae9c-96921f8193d7" } ], "revision_timestamp": [ { "value": "2025-04-16T14:13:03+00:00" } ], "revision_uid": [ { "target_type": "user", "target_uuid": "b8966985-d4b2-42a7-a319-2e94ccfbb849" } ], "revision_log": [], "status": [ { "value": true } ], "uid": [ { "target_type": "user", "target_uuid": "b8966985-d4b2-42a7-a319-2e94ccfbb849" } ], "title": [ { "value": "Should Drupal 7 support be extended again?\n" } ], "created": [ { "value": "2023-05-01T00:00:00+00:00" } ], "changed": [ { "value": "2025-04-16T14:13:03+00:00" } ], "promote": [ { "value": false } ], "sticky": [ { "value": false } ], "default_langcode": [ { "value": true } ], "revision_translation_affected": [ { "value": true } ], "path": [ { "alias": "\/daily\/2023\/05\/01\/should-drupal-7-support-be-extended-again", "langcode": "en" } ], "body": [ { "value": "\n

Drupal 7, which was released in 2011, was originally supposed to be end-of-life in November 2022.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

There are still over 425,000 active Drupal 7 websites according to https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/project\/usage\/drupal<\/a> - almost 100,000 fewer than Feburary 2022. That's still a lot of websites!<\/p>\n\n

Should support be extended again or should Drupal 7 be marked as end-of-life and unsupported?<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

Hit reply and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n\n

P.S. Are you still using Drupal 7 and don\u2019t know what\u2019s involved to upgrade to Drupal 10? Book a Drupal 7 upgrade consultation call<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

Drupal 7, which was released in 2011, was originally supposed to be end-of-life in November 2022.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

There are still over 425,000 active Drupal 7 websites according to https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/project\/usage\/drupal<\/a> - almost 100,000 fewer than Feburary 2022. That's still a lot of websites!<\/p>\n\n

Should support be extended again or should Drupal 7 be marked as end-of-life and unsupported?<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

Hit reply and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n\n

P.S. Are you still using Drupal 7 and don\u2019t know what\u2019s involved to upgrade to Drupal 10? Book a Drupal 7 upgrade consultation call<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "2025-04-16T14:13:03+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "bf046a0617fcaeda73ac3b7e22761f05", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }