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Drupal is the content management software or content management platform for creating integrated digital frameworks with any number of add-ons to customize your content presentation.
What is it about drupal versioning? Of Feb 24th 2016, Drupal 6 is at EOL (End Of Life). What this means to you?
=> Drupal 6 would no longer be supported on a larger note; not used for creating new projects or documentations or modify the existing projects for bugs.
=> Core commits on Drupal 6 would be nil
=> Security advisories or support for Drupal 6 would be nil
=> Drupal 6 releases on project pages would be flagged as not supported
=> Update for Drupal sites would go antedated any sooner
Upgrading Drupal is definitely necessary but to which version you would want to upgrade depends on the complexity of your website and the modules contained in it. A lot of modules have been built in Drupal 8, as in Views and WYSWYG editor. Migration can be done as an experimental step from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 directly so upgrading would be simple using an interface or using Drush which is the command-line shell and scripting interface to make life easier for those who spend their working hours hacking away at the command prompt. Upgrading to Drupal 7 is as well possible using the core update aspect and this would be supported till Drupal 9 comes in.
Upgrading is a must; for sites that aren’t upgraded by now it is only the paid support that’s available from vendors for Drupal 6.
To mention on the support for the version upgrades, the community initiatives to support Composer is available on Drupal.org, taking the help of the community members and the maintainer of Composer and Packagist.org.
Support for the 2 Composer end points, which is for Drupal 7 projects and for the Drupal 8 projects is available with Drupal.org. These separate endpoints enable Drupal.org to translate Drupal-style version numbers into the true semantic versioning as per the expectations of Composer. Additionally supporting a transparent movement to a better semantic versioning for contrib projects on Drupal.org is also being aimed at. A beta of this Drupal.org Composer support in March might come up soon.
Drupal.org provides support allowing users to follow more content types, as in Forum Topics, Posts, Case Studies, documentation Book Pages and more. But then, email notification for any activity on a wide variety of content on Drupal.org is very much getting possible for the users, which forces us to provide some better tools for managing those notifications.
Having said these, we assure we are up to date with the software updates and the implications they have at any scale for any kind of business or website. If you are looking for the best content management system provider to handle your website content and system upgrades, feel free to contact us.
