Drupal 7 is gone, hello Drupal 11

It's official: after being postponed several times, then until November 2023, the official and definitive date for the end of Drupal 7 support is January 5, 2025.

End of life announcement and changes to Drupal 7 support - PSA-2023-06-07 | Drupal.org.

This decision will enable the security team to concentrate and increase its level of monitoring of current versions.

Reduced support from August 1, 2023

Since August 1, 2023, low- and moderate-level critical anomalies have been included in the queue, as long as they remain isolated and uncommon.

Drupal 9 and higher have not been affected by these changes. When an anomaly affects both Drupal 7 and Drupal 10, for example, Drupal 10 receives a release without any fix being made for Drupal 7.

Drupal 7 development branches for unmaintained modules and themes are no longer eligible for new maintenance.

Since August 1, 2023, the community has continued to maintain contributed modules and themes, as long as they were not marked as "unmaintained" by a maintainer or the module's security team, in cases of no response.

Developers whose customers used certain modules were invited to remain proactive on these projects.

PHP 5.5 no longer used by Drupal 7

As of August 1, 2023, PHP 5.6 and higher was required to run Drupal 7. The teams have worked to adapt Drupal 7 to recent versions of PHP, PHP 8 on the most recent versions of Drupal 7.

Security releases no longer provided for Drupal 7 on the Windows environment

Since August 1, 2023, security fixes have no longer been performed on the Windows environment.

Affected customers were invited to migrate as soon as possible.

Perhaps you've already migrated your website, and that's a good thing.

If so, now's the time to do it, 

• with your internal teams,
• With an ESN offering Drupal skills,
• from a web agency with Drupal skills, 
• with an independent developer specialized in Drupal.

A few important points about the end of life of Drupal 7

1. The Drupal security team no longer performs security updates.
2. Security flaws are exposed to the public without warning, and can therefore be exploited.
3. No more documentation, automated testing, packaging, etc.
4. Any Drupal 7 release is considered unmaintained.
5. Some Drush features will no longer work in Drupal 7.
6. The Drupal 7 core archive (tar, zip) will no longer be available online.
7. On the development side, commits are no longer possible on Drupal 7 branches.
8. Any vulnerability scan will return an insecure state on the Drupal 7 core.

We recommend that you upgrade any Drupal 7 site to Drupal 10.

Drupal 11 was made official in July 2024.

If you'd like to find out more about the Drupal version support roadmap, please visit the official Drupal.org page.