By Gábor Hojtsy on

In preparation for the new major release, Drupal 10.0.x and Drupal 9.5.x will enter the beta phase the week of September 12, 2022.

Core developers should plan to complete changes that are only allowed in major releases before the beta release. The Drupal 10.0.0-beta1 and Drupal 9.5.0-beta1 deadline for most core patches is September 9, 2022.

Developers and site owners can begin testing 10.0 and 9.5 once the betas are released.

During the beta phase, core issues will be committed according to the policy on allowed changes during beta.

  1. Most issues that are allowed for patch releases will be committed to 10.1.x and backported to 10.0.x, 9.5.x, and 9.4.x.

  2. Most issues that are only allowed in minor releases will be committed to 10.1.x only. A few strategic issues (such as PHP 8.2 or Symfony 6.2 compatibility fixes) may be backported to 10.0.x and 9.5.x, but only at committer discretion after the issue is fixed in 10.1.x (so leave them set to 10.1.x unless you are a committer), and only up until the release candidate deadline.

The 10.1.x branch of core has already been created, and future feature and API additions are already targeted against that branch instead of 10.0.x.

Further beta releases may be made available as needed.

The release candidate phase will begin the week of November 14. See the Drupal 10.0.0 requirements for the issues required between 10.0.0-beta1 and 10.0.0-rc1 or 10.0.0.

The scheduled release date for Drupal 10.0.0 and 9.5.0 is December 14, 2022.

Bugfix and security support of Drupal 9

Security coverage for Drupal 9 is generally provided for the previous minor release as well as the newest minor release. Based on these the following changes are upcoming:

Drupal 9.3.x Security releases will be provided until the release of Drupal 9.5.0 on December 14, 2022.
Drupal 9.4.x Normal bugfix support ends on December 14, 2022. Security releases are provided until the release of Drupal 10.1.0 on June 21, 2023.
Drupal 9.5.x Normal bugfix support ends on June 21, 2023 with the release of Drupal 10.1.0. Security releases are provided until the end of life of Symfony 4 in November 2023.