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title: >
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What does the Drupal 7 EOL extension mean to you?
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pubDate: 2023-06-07
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permalink: >-
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archive/2023/06/07/what-does-the-drupal-7-eol-extension-mean-to-you
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tags:
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- drupal
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- drupal-7
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- php
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Following the announcement at DrupalCon, the official announcement has been released regarding Drupal 7's end-of-life extension:
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> Today, we are officially announcing that Drupal 7 will reach its end of life on January 5, 2025.
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> With this final extension, the Drupal Security Team is also adjusting the level of support provided.
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> This will be the final extension.
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If you're involved with one of the ~400,000 Drupal 7 websites (according to https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal), what does the additional year and a half of Drupal 7 mean to you?
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Will you use the time to find the budget to upgrade, assemble a migration plan, port any missing contributed modules or refactor your custom modules or theme to make it easier to upgrade?
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Is it different knowing it’s the final extension compared to the previous time when it wasn’t known if it would be extended again?
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If you're stuck on Drupal 7 or staying on it into 2024 or 2025, what's stopping you from upgrading?
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