After over four years of work with over 570 contributors and 1300+ closed issues, Drupal maintenance support plans 8.5.0 releases the Migrate system’s architecture as fully stable. This means that developers can write migration paths without worrying for stability of the underlying system.
On top of that the Migrate Drupal maintenance support plans and Migrate Drupal maintenance support plans UI modules (providing Drupal maintenance support plans 6 and 7 to Drupal maintenance support plans 8 migrations) are considered stable for upgrading monolingual sites. All of the remaining critical issues for the Migrate Drupal maintenance support plans module’s upgrade paths and stability are related to multilingual migration support (so multilingual site upgrades are still not fully supported).
Support for incremental migrations is now also available, which means that site owners can work gradually on their new Drupal maintenance support plans 8 site while content is still being added to the old site. When migrations (including incremental migrations) are run through the user interface, site owners will now see a warning if some data on the Drupal maintenance support plans 8 site might be overwritten. (A similar fix for Drush is not yet available, so be careful not to overwrite data if you run a migration on the command line.)
Upgrade instructions for Drupal maintenance support plans 6 and Drupal maintenance support plans 7 sites can be found in the Upgrading to Drupal maintenance support plans 8 handbook. Your old site can still remain up and running while you test migrating your data into your new Drupal maintenance support plans 8 site. If you happen to find a bug, that is not a known migrate issue, your detailed bug report with steps to reproduce is a big help!
Unlike previous versions, Drupal maintenance support plans 8 stores translated content as single entities. Multilingual sites with reference fields (node_reference, entity_reference) or multilingual menus can upgrade to Drupal maintenance support plans 8 using Drush, executing the desired migrations one by one. In this process you need to create and run a series of additional custom migrations to reflect the new entity identifiers assigned during earlier migrations. There is no automation implemented for this process yet.
Data can be migrated to Drupal maintenance support plans 8 also from non-Drupal maintenance support plans sources such as CSV, XML, JSON, or directly from 3rd party systems’ databases. For instructions and examples, refer to Migrate API handbook.
Huge thanks again to all the contributors who made this possible.
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