Drupal 11 deep dive: what's new, how to prepare
June 27, 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 11?

- Drupal 10?

- Drupal 9?

- Drupal 8?

- Drupal 7?

- Earlier Drupal?

1. Why Drupal 11
2. What's included
3. Tools

But Starshot!
✨

Drupal Core

Drupal Starshot

Starshot capable Drupal Core

CMS recipes (new baseline)

Add-on recipes

Some Starshot features will become core, some will remain in recipes

Some core features will be removed* because Starshot provides them better

Starshot will likely be released based on Drupal 11

Is Drupal 11 too soon?

Drupal 11 is "early" so that users can avoid it longer

🫳🏻🎤

Drupal 10 will be supported until mid-late 2026!

Overlapping support

For that to work out, we need Drupal 11 in 2024

Timelines

When is Drupal 11 released?

Drupal 7 (core) migrations
to Drupal 11 will
still be provided!

How is Drupal 11 built?

Modules moved to contributed projects

https://www.drupal.org/project/statistics/issues/3436823

Modules moved to contributed projects

What's in Drupal 11?

Same features as in Drupal 10.3,

with the deprecated parts removed,

system requirement updates made

Drupal core improvements

System requirements

MySQL/Percona 8
MariaDB 10.6

SQLite 3.45

PostgreSQL 16

PHP 8.3
Composer 2.7.7

(Drush 13)

PHP 8.3 is faster!

Drupal 10.1 tested - Higher is better

https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/

Dependencies updated

Symfony 7
jQuery 4

jQuery UI 1.14
PHPUnit 10

Upgrade tools

Upgrade Status

Project Update Bot now does MRs

7600+
issues opened

740+
fixed/closed (fixed)

Drupal 10.3.0 defined all deprecated APIs

1. Update to PHP 8.3 and

Drupal 10.3 now

2. Start updating projects to Drupal 11 compatibility

dev.acquia.com/drupal11

24% of all projects are in some form of compatibility!

Filtering to top 200 projects: 42%!

Bot can fix 72%+ of all remaining 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!

https://project.pages.drupalcode.org/gitlab_templates/jobs/upgrade-status/

Summary

Drupal 11.0.0 on week of July 29

Move to PHP 8.3 as soon as you can

No rush to adopt Drupal 11, but it is highly
automated and many people are doing it :)
 

Use Upgrade Status and drupal-rector

Drupal 11 meetings
every Monday in #d11readiness

Get the sticker!