Understanding Drupal

Overview of Drupal

The Flexibility and Simplicity You Need To Power Your Website and Web Application.

Drupal 9 release date and what it means

Drupal 9 was released on June 3, 2020. It was released alongside a long-term-support (LTS) Drupal 8.9 minor release.

• Why did we plan to release Drupal 9 in 2020?
• What happens to Drupal 8 now that Drupal 9 has been released?
• What happens to Drupal 7 now that Drupal 9 has been released?
• How long will Drupal 9 be supported?

User Guide PDF and ePub downloads

Download e-book versions of the User Guide, in PDF and ePub format.

How Drupal 9 was made and what is included

Drupal 9 was mostly built in Drupal 8 using deprecations and optional updated dependency support.

• How and why we deprecated code on the way to Drupal 9
• What changes are there for third-party dependencies?
• Which modules have been removed from Drupal 9?
• Environment requirements of Drupal 9
• What are the new features of Drupal 9?
• What happens in the 9.0.x and 9.1.x branches?

Drupal 9 resources

There are several community resources to learn more about Drupal 9 and to get involved.

Understanding Drupal version numbers

Understand Drupal’s version numbering scheme for Drupal core, and for contributed modules and themes, so that you know which version to use.

• What do version numbers mean on contributed modules and themes?
• What are alpha and beta releases, and release candidates?
• When is the next release?
• Which version am I running?