If you're currently on Drupal 8, you can expect a similar experience with Drupal 9 when it is released later this year in June. As Dries has said, âThe big deal about Drupal 9 is...that it shouldn't be a big deal.âÂ
Drupal 9 will ship with all of the features of Drupal 8 that the community has been updating and adding to since 2015. There will be a few changes, primarily with system requirements and third-party dependencies, in order to ensure platform security:
Because Drupal 9 was mostly built in Drupal 8, the process for migrating from 8 to 9 will be radically streamlined compared to any other major Drupal upgrade of the past decade. Here are the steps for preparing your Drupal 8 website for Drupal 9:
1. Make sure your environment is compatible with Drupal 9's requirements:
2. Upgrade Drupal core to the latest version and remove any dependencies you no longer use.
3. Update contributed modules. Tools for checking compatibility status of contributed modules include:
4. Ensure custom modules and themes are compatible with Drupal 9. Tools for fixing any incompatible code include:
5. When available, update Drupal core to Drupal 9 and run update.php.
6. Congratulate yourself on a smooth migration to Drupal 9!
For more information on what to expect in Drupal 9, check out these resources:
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Tue Mar 24 2020 13:43:07 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)