State of Drupal 10
June 25, 2022

@gaborhojtsy

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Gábor Hojtsy

Acquia

Initiative coordinator for Drupal 10.
Drupal contributor since 2003, committer since 2007.

Contact me at @gaborhojtsy

1. Why Drupal 10
2. What's included
3. How to get there (tools)
4. Features coming after

Why Drupal 10?

When is Drupal 10 released?

Drupal 9 security and
bug fix support

Drupal 8 security and
bug fix support

Drupal 10 is
on Symfony 6.x

Theoretic end of life could be as late as
November 2027*****

Current support timelines

Drupal 9.2.0

Released:
2021. June

EOL:
2022 June

Within a major version, you must update every 12 months or so to keep security coverage.

* Except the last LTS which could go for 18 months max.

Potential future (#3238652)

What's in Drupal 10?

Same features as in Drupal 9.5

Drupal core initiatives

Starterkit theme

Beta from Drupal 9.4

Changes the paradigm of theming and responsibility of Drupal themers.

Automatic updates

Built as a contributed project.

Supports attended (manual) patch updates by default. Unattended (cron) dependent on TUF, minor update supported as experimental.

Drupal 10 readiness initiative

CKEditor 5

Released experimental in 9.3.0

Upgrade path included that converts CKEditor 4 configuration to the new version. Very close collaboration with CKSource.

Symfony 5

Started updates as of Drupal 9.1.0

Symfony 5.4 is available and stable.

PHP 8 support

PHP 8.0 since Drupal 9.1.0,
PHP 8.1 since Drupal 9.3.0
PHP 8.2 in the works #3283358

Updated Drupal Core and worked heavily with dependencies.

jQuery UI

Many components removed in Drupal 9.0.0 already

Dialog, Autocomplete, Dropbutton remain. jQuery UI announced renewed security support.

Moving to contrib

Quickedit #3228986
Aggregator #1136482
Forum #1898812
HAL #3049856
RDF #2152459
Tracker #3261679
Color #3274149

System requirements

No support for Internet Explorer
MySQL 5.7.8 (same) / MariaDB 10.3.7 (same)

SQLite 3.26 (same) + json1

PostgreSQL 12 (up from 10) + pg_trgm
PHP 8.1
Composer 2

Upgrade tools

Upgrade Status

Project Update Bot restarted 9 days ago

4748
issues opened

127
fixed/closed (fixed)

Drupal 9.4.0 defined all deprecated APIs!

*Other than whole modules and themes being deprecated

1. Update to Drupal 9.4
and PHP 8.1

2. Start updating projects to Drupal 10 compatibility

dev.acquia.com/drupal10

Half of projects only need an info.yml file change

Drupal 10 compatibility fixes already mostly automated

Most problems to solve are Drupal 8 to 10 changes

Drupal 9 contrib 6 months in

"In total, the Drupal community worked on 4,195 different Drupal.org projects [in 2020]"
https://dri.es/who-sponsors-drupal-development-2020

Drupal 9 to 10

Drupal 8 to 9

Lenient Composer
Endpoint

#3240297

Composer plugin
https://packagist.org/packages/mglaman/composer-drupal-lenient

Or default constraint loosening
#3267143

Drupal 7 (core) migrations
to Drupal 10 will
still be provided

"Drupal 11"

Distributions

+ Can really tailor the experience
+ Supported upgrades (for a while)

- Expensive to maintain
- Hard to move on if abandoned
- Impossible to combine

- Not exposed in the installer

Project Browser

More modules will move to contributed projects

Summary

Drupal 10.0: Dec 14
Beta requirements done: Sept 9

1. Make your code PHP 8.1 compatible now

2. Drupal 9.4 beta defined all the deprecations,
so start using Upgrade Status and drupal-rector

Drupal 10 meetings
every Monday in #d10readiness

Dedicated channels for
#ckeditor5
#autoupdates

#distributions-and-recipes
#project-browser