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title: Is post-end-of-live support an anti-pattern?
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date: 2024-10-06
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permalink: daily/2024/10/06/is-post-end-of-live-support-an-anti-pattern
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tags:
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- software-development
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- drupal
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cta: d7eol
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Is supporting software after its end-of-live date a good idea?
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drupal_planet: true
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With Drupal 7's end-of-life date of the 5th of January 2025 quickly approaching, I've recently seen again a number of companies offering support for Drupal 7 after its end-of-life date.
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I've seen the same in corporate IT environments where they're running versions of software post their EOL date, so it's only Drupal 7, but I wonder if this is a good thing?
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Is this deterring companies from upgrading if they know this is an option, or should everyone upgrade and we can move forward from Drupal 7 and other end-of-life software?
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According to <https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal>, there are still 281,000 active Drupal 7 installations.
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It's considerably less than before - this time last year, it was over 380,000 installations - but it's still a lot of Drupal 7 being used.
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