Risks of Staying On Drupal 7 After Its End of Life
Drupal 7's end of life is scheduled for November 28, 2022. Up until then, the Drupal Security Team will continue to provide patches to Drupal 7 core and contributed projects should any security threats arise. After that point, however, the Drupal Security team will no longer support Drupal 7.
Is it Safe to Stay on Drupal 7?
If your organization is currently running Drupal 7, you’re faced with a decision on whether to upgrade to Drupal 9 or not.
How to Survive Drupal 7 and 8 End of Life
Are you still on Drupal 7 or 8?
All software, even that of Drupal’s top world ranking open source community, comes with a shelf life.
Drupal 7 is now a decade old, with the advent of Drupal 8 falling just four years behind. These previous major Drupal versions weren’t left in the dust with the release of Drupal 9 in the summer of 2020. But that support has an expiration date coming soon. Both versions 7 and 8 have set “End of Life” dates which means they will no longer be supported by the official Drupal community.
How to Fix the Catch-22 Problem of Drupal 9 Fixes in Composer
TL&DR: Use drupal.org's issue forks to make Drupal 9 compatibility fixes work with Composer.
[Webinar] Best Practices for Moving to Drupal 9
Upgrading to the next major Drupal release can be complex—even stressful. In this webinar, we’ll show you how to take the pain out of the process and get your Drupal 6, 7, or 8 site up and running on D9—the latest and greatest Drupal release.
Joining Damien McKenna, Community Lead at Mediacurrent, is Acquia’s Ryan Picchini, Director of Product Marketing, and Matt Wetmore, Director of Web Operations.