Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Drupal 11 will be released in late July 2024. (see the Drupal core release schedule for the details). This is the main tracking issue of what to do in Drupal 10 to prepare for Drupal 11, and what to do in Drupal 11 once the branch is open for dedicated changes.
In Drupal 10
- #3267879: [meta] Add compatibility for the latest major and minor versions of dependencies to Drupal 10
- #3265680: Deprecate dependencies, libraries, modules, and themes that will be removed from Drupal 11 core
- #3409178: [meta] Release preparation steps for 10.3.0
In Drupal 11
- ✅ #3214954: [11.x] [meta] Set Drupal 11 platform and browser requirements at least six months before the release
- #3409183: [meta] 11.0.0 milestone release notes
- ✅ #3402452: [meta] Requirements for tagging 11.0.0-alpha1
- ✅ #3284879: [meta] Requirements for tagging Drupal 11.0.0-beta1 (open for followups)
- ✅ #3449815: [meta] Requirements for tagging 11.0.0-rc1
- Additional RCs as needed
- #3332028: [meta] Requirements for tagging 11.0.0
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
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| #18 | Drupal11Mindmap.txt | 38.94 KB | gábor hojtsy |
| #17 | Drupal11Mindmap.png | 113.14 KB | gábor hojtsy |
| #17 | Drupal11Mindmap.pdf | 84.36 KB | gábor hojtsy |
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mondrakeWhy is this critical?
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xjmBecause we can't not have a Drupal 11. It is a critical plan issue and will define the release structure for the next several years.
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gábor hojtsyOpened #3284879: [meta] Requirements for tagging Drupal 11.0.0-beta1 for 11-beta1 since @xjm suggested we keep the template from the Drupal 10 issue before we move things around there.
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catchI've tried to flesh out #3284879: [meta] Requirements for tagging Drupal 11.0.0-beta1 so that it's somewhat realistic.
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gábor hojtsyGenerated a mindmap with my usual script to make it easier to grok this. On the left the pre 11-branch issues and the right the post-branch issues.
Comment #18
gábor hojtsyAttaching Freemind XML file as well. I use Mindnode (https://www.mindnode.com/) to browse this but should be supported by other apps too :) Rename to .mm!
Comment #19
gábor hojtsyUpdating intro of the issue summary with release timeline information.
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quietone commentedComment #22
daffie commentedAs #3214954: [11.x] [meta] Set Drupal 11 platform and browser requirements at least six months before the release just got in and given the 6 months period, can I conclude that we have missed the release window for mid-June and late July?
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longwave@daffie if we complete the beta requirements by April 26, we can still release in July: https://www.drupal.org/about/core/blog/drupal-11-will-be-released-either...
Comment #24
catch@daffie PHP and database requirements were set in January-ish and in CRs, so even though we didn't close the IIS issue until more recently, it meets the 'six months' deadline for end of July well enough.
I personally haven't given up on April 26th yet, we have jQuery 4 and PHPUnit 10 to finish which are hard blockers. Everything else like module/update removals can be done very quickly (and have been deliberately delayed so we only have to do things once instead of multiple times like we did for Drupal 10) and if they were the only things left we can probably squeeze things in / stretch deadlines slightly, since 10.3 beta doesn't depend on those and could go out exactly on time.
If jQuery 4/PHPUnit 10 aren't committable by April 26th though then almost certainly we'll need to push to the December window.
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quietone commentedComment #26
quietone commentedDrupal 11 is in the title, so dropping the first 11.x
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xjmComment #28
baluertlUpdating IS as the fixed release date of D11 has been published.
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xjmComment #30
dwwThis can now be closed, right? 🎉
Thanks! 🙏
-Derek
Comment #31
quietone commentedYes, Drupal 11.0.0 was released. Saving credit for everyone who helped keep this meta up to date.
Work now continues at #3449806: [12.x] [meta] Release Drupal 12 in 2026
Comment #34
quietone commentedUpdate version to the branch when this was closed.