Drupal 9

Several years ago we were all happy to discover the great news about the upcoming Drupal 9 that promised to be super easy to upgrade to. Finally, the ninth version of the CMS was released in June, 2020. Now that it has almost been a year after the release, there is a growing number of websites that have already made this easiest upgrade in history.

04 May 2021
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It’s no secret that all software products work significantly better when updated. Drupal is no exception. All websites built with the Drupal CMS benefit immensely from the regular updates of the Drupal core, modules, and themes. On the contrary, ignoring these procedures can bring trouble.  Discover more about the importance of and the options for updating Drupal websites from today’s blog post by the Golems team of Drupal experts.
22 Jan 2021
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What's new in PHP 8: overview of key features and improvements A major update of a programming language is always a huge event in the software development world. One of these big days was November 26, 2020 — the PHP 8 release date. Our Drupal development team was happy to welcome the arrival of PHP 8.0. It’s not just Drupal development teams that their breath at this release — PHP also lies at the heart of WordPress, Joomla, Magento, OpenCart, Craft CMS, PyroCMS, OctoberCMS, Contao, ExpressionEngine, and other CMSs. In addition, this open-source, platform-independent, powerful, flexible, fast, well-documented, and easy-to-learn programming language is used on websites without any CMS. In total, according to the stats, PHP works on 79.1% of websites whose server-side programming language is known.
03 Jan 2021
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Drupal 9 has been around since June 3, 2020, and many websites have already upgraded to it.
According to Drupal core usage statistics on drupal.org, there are 23,753 websites using the 9.0.x and 26,411 using the 9.1.x branch. 162,090 websites are currently on the 8.9.x branch, so they are really very close to a seamless Drupal 9 upgrade.

24 Oct 2020
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