Drupal 9 Readiness

Planned timeline of Drupal 8 and 9 releases

The goal of the Drupal 9 initiative is to release Drupal 9 on June 3, 2020, providing 18 months for Drupal 7 and 8 sites to update and keep security support. (Pictured is our current planned timeline).

What are we working on?

The initiative's main priorities are:

  1. Identify tasks to be done for Drupal 9's release, focusing on updating dependencies and removing deprecated APIs.
  2. Encourage and help contributed module maintainers to move along and keep modules updated.
  3. Release on June 3, 2020 or if that turns out to not be feasible, December 2020 at latest.

Who are we?

There are many contributors to this initiative; the following are the initiative's coordinators:

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Gábor Hojtsy (Gábor Hojtsy)
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Jess (xjm)
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Nathaniel Catchpole (catch)
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Ryan Aslett (mixologic)

How can I help?

Drupal 9 readiness meetings are now every week

Community members are invited to attend our meetings every other Monday at 19:00 UTC (what is that in my timezone?). This meeting is intended to provide a forum for status updates, discussion, feedback, etc. Feel free to propose agenda items ahead of time in the #d9readiness channel on Drupal Slack. The meetings are text-only, and transcripts of past meetings are available at the meeting archive.

Slack channel

Contributors and interested community members are welcome to join #d9readiness channel on Drupal Slack.

Issues

Look for issues tagged with “Drupal 9 compatibility” to help with contributed projects.

Drupal core issues are tracked on the 9.0.x branch. We are currently focusing on getting Drupal 9 alpha1 complete.

For a complete overview of core plans, start from the master plan issue which is broken to further steps.