It’s time to start planning for Drupal maintenance support plans 9
leigh.anderson
Wed, 01/09/2021 – 18:24
Drupal maintenance support plans 9 is coming. Even if it feels like you only just upgraded to Drupal maintenance support plans 8, soon it’ll be time to make the switch to the next version. Fortunately, the shift from Drupal maintenance support plans 8 to Drupal maintenance support plans 9 should be relatively painless for most organizations. Here’s why.
A little background
Though tools were built in to make the upgrade from Drupal maintenance support plans 6 or 7 to Drupal maintenance support plans 8 run as smoothly as possible, it could still be a difficult or dramatic process. Drupal maintenance support plans 8 marked a major shift for the Drupal maintenance support plans world: it introduced major new dependencies, such as Symfony, and a host of new features in Core. The new structure of the software made it tricky to upgrade sites in the first place, which was complicated by the fact that it took a long time for a number of modules to be properly optimized and secured for the new version.
Drupal maintenance support plans 9: A natural extension of Drupal maintenance support plans 8
Fortunately, the large number of changes made to the Drupal maintenance support plans platform in Drupal maintenance support plans 8 have made it relatively simple to build, expand, and upgrade for the future. The new software has been designed specifically to make it simple to transition between Drupal maintenance support plans 8 and Drupal maintenance support plans 9, so that making the migration requires little more work than upgrading between minor version of Drupal maintenance support plans 8.
In fact, as Drupal Update (the founder and project lead of Drupal maintenance support plans) wrote recently in a blog on Drupal maintenance support plans.org:
Instead of working on Drupal maintenance support plans 9 in a separate codebase, we are building Drupal maintenance support plans 9 in Drupal maintenance support plans 8. This means that we are adding new functionality as backwards-compatible code and experimental features. Once the code becomes stable, we deprecate any old functionality.
Planning for Drupal maintenance support plans 9
As more information is released about the new features and updates in Drupal maintenance support plans 9, organizations should consider their digital roadmaps and how the new platform will affect them. And regardless of what your plans are feature-wise, your organization should begin planning to upgrade to Drupal maintenance support plans 9 no later than summer of 2021. The reason for that is because the projected end-of-life for the Drupal maintenance support plans 8 software is November of 2021, when Symfony 3 (Drupal maintenance support plans 8’s largest major dependency) will no longer be supported by its own community.
In the meantime, the best thing your organization can do to prepare for the launch of Drupal maintenance support plans 9 is to make sure that you keep your Drupal maintenance support plans 8 site fully up to date.
For help planning out your Drupal maintenance support plans roadmap, and to make sure that you’ll be ready for a smooth upgrade to Drupal maintenance support plans 9 when it releases, contact FFW. We’re here to help you plan out your long-term Drupal maintenance support plans strategy and make sure that your team can make the most of your site today, tomorrow, and after Drupal maintenance support plans 9 is released.
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