Drupal 10, the latest version of the open-source digital experience platform with even more features, is here.
Move from Drupal 7 to 9
The last big migration
Get on board the continuous innovation cycle that continues with Drupal 9, ensuring that future major version upgrades are easy. Drupal 9 was released June 3rd, 2020.
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Hundreds of new capabilities in Drupal 9
Moving to Drupal 9 will ensure that you benefit from the continuous innovation cycle delivering new capabilities twice a year. Once you make your last big migration, future major updates will also be significantly easier. Drupal 9 offers various platform benefits compared to Drupal 7:
- The same structured content based system you grew to love.
- Craft layouts with the built-in visual layout builder. Reuse blocks and customize all parts of the page.
- Use the integrated configuration management system with development and staging environment support.
- Manage reusable media in the out-of-the-box media library.
- Take advantage of full multilingual support in all content and configuration.
- Do it with more confidence thanks to better keyboard navigation and accessibility.
- Make changes even from your mobile devices thanks to a mobile-first UI.
- Better performance and scalability with built-in BigPipe support for even faster initial page loads.
- Built-in JSON:API support for progressively and fully decoupled applications.
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What does migration involve?
If migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 seems overwhelming, keep in mind that great strides have happened recently with migration tools.
This migration can be seen as an opportunity to revisit your site's data model and information architecture. The Drupal 8 upgrade process is not done as a direct update to your existing codebase; instead, you build out your new site on Drupal 8 with all your required content types, and use the migration tools to import all your data. Learn more about the upgrade process.
What next?
- Prepare for the upgrade
- Learn Drupal 8 concepts
- Review the multilingual overview
- Choose your upgrade method
Once you've completed the upgrade, the Drupal 8 User Guide is the official resource for managing your Drupal 8 site.
Tell me more about Drupal 9
Drupal 9 builds on all of the innovation of Drupal 8 and brings more continuous feature improvements every six months. The best part is this: Once you've moved from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 all future major version updates should be easy.
