Drupal 11 deep dive: what's new, how to prepare
May 7, 2024
Gábor Hojtsy
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Gábor Hojtsy
Acquia
Full Stack Community Organizer,
Drupal contributor since 2003, committer since 2007.
Contact me at @gaborhojtsy
You!
- New to Drupal?
- Drupal 10?
- Drupal 9?
- Drupal 8?
- Drupal 7?
- Earlier Drupal?
1. Why Drupal 11
2. What's included
3. Tools
But Starshot!
✨
Drupal core
Automatic updates /
Package manager
Project browser
Recipes capabiilty
CMS recipes (new baseline)
Add-on recipes
Starshot
Starshot capable Drupal core
CMS recipes (new baseline)
Add-on recipes
Some Starshot features will become core, some will remain in recipes
Starshot will possibly be released based on Drupal 11
Drupal 11 is "early" so that you can upgrade later
Drupal 10 will be supported until mid-late 2026!
Overlapping support
Drupal 10.0
Released:
Dec 2022
Drupal 11.0
Released:
week of July 29
Drupal 12.0
Released:
mid-late 2026
Drupal
10.4 LTS
late 2024
Drupal
11.4 LTS
mid 2026
EOL mid-late 2026
EOL mid-late 2028
For that to work out, we need Drupal 11 in 2024
Timelines
When is Drupal 11 released?
| Alpha1 | May 3, 2024. |
| Expected beta1 | Week of May 13, 2024. |
| RC1 | Week of July 1, 2024. |
| 11.0.0 | Week of July 29, 2024. |
| 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
|---|
| 11.5 | 11.6 |
|---|
| 11.0 | 11.1 | 11.2 | 11.3 | 11.4 |
|---|
| 12.0 | 12.1 | 12.2 | 12.3 | 12.4 | |||||
| 12.5 |
| 13.0 | 13.1 | |
| 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.5 |
|---|
⭐️LTS
⭐️LTS
⭐️LTS
⭐️LTS
⭐️LTS
⭐️LTS
Drupal 7 EOL, January 5, 2025!
⭐️LTS
Drupal 7 (core) migrations
to Drupal 11 will
still be provided!
What's in Drupal 11?
Same features as in Drupal 10.3,
with the deprecated parts removed,
system requirement updates made
Drupal core improvements
- CKEditor Autoformat
- Single Directory Components
- Decoupled menus with Linkset
- Field UI revamp
- Floating bulk operations
- Easier block management
- BigPipe interface previews
- Performance improvements
- Project announcements
Done by 10.2
Done by 10.3/11.0
11.1 or later
Project Browser
Automatic Updates
Experience Builder
Recipes improvements
- New experimental
navigation module - Experimental recipes APIs!
- Workspaces is stable!
- New access policy API
- Taxonomy term revisions and moderation support
Starshot ✨
System requirements
MySQL/Percona 8
MariaDB 10.6
SQLite 3.45
PostgreSQL 16
PHP 8.3
Composer 2.7.0
PHP 8.3 is faster!
PHP 8.1
922 req/s
PHP 8.2
941 req/s
PHP 8.3
1432 req/s
Drupal 10.1 tested - Higher is better
https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/
PHP 8.2
941 req/s
PHP 8.2
941 req/s
😍
Dependencies updated
Symfony 7
jQuery 4
PHPUnit 10
Getting smaller again
Actions UI
Book
Tracker
Forum
Statistics
Tour
Upgrade tools
Upgrade Status
drupal-rector
Project Update Bot now does MRs
6610
issues opened
407
fixed/closed (fixed)
Drupal 10.3.0 defined all deprecated APIs!
*Other than whole modules being deprecated
1. Update to PHP 8.3 now and Drupal 10.3 (when available)
2. Start updating projects to Drupal 11 compatibility
dev.acquia.com/drupal11
15% of projects are in some form of compatibility
Bot can fix
70%+ of issues
What happens to modules that don't get updated?
Project Update Working Group
https://www.drupal.org/project/puwg
Norah Medlin (tekNorah) (provisional)
Vladimir Roudakov (vladimiraus)
Sven Decabooter (svendecabooter)
Naveen Valecha (naveenvalecha)
Kristen Pol (Kristen Pol)
Matt Glaman (mglaman)
Darren Oh (Darren Oh)
Mark Casias (markie)
Kim Pepper (kim.pepper)
Björn Brala (bbrala)
Lucas Hedding (heddn)
Pedro Cambra (pcambra)
Allan Chappell (generalredneck)
Jakob Perry (japerry)
Timo Huisman (Timo Huisman) (provisional)
Composer plugins for incompatible projects
Get incompatible projects with
https://packagist.org/packages/mglaman/composer-drupal-lenient
Apply fixes locally with
https://packagist.org/packages/cweagans/composer-patches
Drupal 12 will be even easier!
Add globally as a template option:
https://www.drupal.org/project/gitlab_templates/issues/3444789
Sample custom implementation: https://www.drupal.org/project/upgrade_rector/issues/3443986
Summary
Drupal 11.0.0: week of July 29
1. Make your code PHP 8.3 compatible now!
2. Drupal 10.3 defined all the deprecations,
so start using Upgrade Status and drupal-rector now!
Drupal 11 meetings
every other Monday in #d11readiness