Drupal is upping its game.
This popular open-source CMS has gone through a significant transformation over the last year, introducing changes the Drupal community had long been waiting for. Drupal 8, launch back in November 2015, was the biggest Drupal update to date.
The release of Drupal 8 meant that support for Drupal 6 sites end in late February 2016.
Let’s take a look at some of the implications of the latest Drupal 8 update, and what it all means for websites develop in Drupal.
Benefits of Drupal – Dynamic & Scalabl
evelopers get us to certain ways of coding and Drupal is no different.
Sometimes fault for its steep learning curve, Drupal amply repays developers with its dynamic and scalable features.
In the saturat world of CMSs – what makes Drupal different?
Drupal 6 Support End This Year
The end of the Drupal 6 support cycle means that Drupal will no longer:
update the Drupal 6 core.
monitor and provide system security support.
update or add new modules.
Without Drupal security patches webmasters will potentially have an insecure site environment – which could turn out to be costly.
The end of the Drupal 6 support lifecycle will lead to:
Security concerns & increas risk of security breaches on your site.
Reliability and compatibility issues: more support & development time will have to be spent on maintaining Drupal 6 sites.
Third party integration will be challenging due to out-of-date modules.
Decrease in compatibility with modern frameworks (e.g. Drupal 6 not support by Bootstrap).
Less control over your website and facing a potentially forc and rush upgrade in future.
Newer versions of Drupal have advantages over Drupal 6 in terms of capability and compatibility, as well as having a more comprehensive feature set.
It is better to upgrade now rather than doing an emergency upgrad lebanon telegram data e when your Drupal 6 site no longer works!
Drupal 8: Better for Developers & Users
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Drupal 8 champions key innovations such as progressive cz lists decoupling, configurable field elements and REST-first native web services for better third party integration.