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It's been a long cycle, but Drupal 5 is finally here. See the official announcement. Thanks everyone for your bug reports, patches, documentation and testing. We couldn't do it without you.

Comments are disabled on the announcement, so feel free to post your cheers, comments and response here. If you encounter any problems, submit them through the issue tracker.

Digg the announcement using the widget up left, and snack on some Drupal cookies.

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Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

yay.. congrats drupal!

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ac
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Hooooray... well done

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socialtalker commented

going nuts installing 4.7, i have decided to scrap it, and just start all over with version 5. i hadn't yet got to working on themes, i was still installing modules, i guess you could say i went module crazy...its going to be a big community site and might as well switch over now, while it has no content or customization and 5 has not too many modules, so i wont go as nuts. lol. i cant believe i am doing it, but no point in upgrading since there is nothing on it yet. here i go.....

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florian commented

Your decision shows what a great community Drupal is. You have plenty of modules for Drupal 5.0 to choose from.

Good luck to you ... and Viva Drupal !

Florian
PuzzleIT | EU Copyright Office | SoftChannels | STReight

Florian

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rondev commented

Just have to convert my 4.7 site. It won't be too long as my database is just 6Meg large.
Installed 5.0 RC2 and pleased with this new release.
Have fun.
Thank you to the dev team.
Ronan

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BioALIEN commented

New Year. New Drupal 5 Release. New modules. What more can anybody ask for?

Well done to all the people involved. It was a long and difficult path but we got there in the end. Roll on Drupal 6 :)

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eaton commented

Wahooooo! :-)

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niklp commented

Upgraded! On my test systems anyway @ http://drupal.kinetasystems.com/drupal5

Not bad, 36 minutes from the package hitting the shelf!

Congrats to all, now we can REALLY get moving! :)

Edit: and perfect timing, as I have to start my first proper site with it today!!! And another couple next week... I'm very happy about this! Weeeeeeeeeeee!

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spjsche commented

and for all the time and effort you guys put into the product.

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Marc Bijl commented

A big THANK YOU to anyone who participated in the development of this release!!!

Hip, hip... hooray!!!

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DL commented

a new year, a new drupal version, what more can we ask for... wooot!!!!

Live hard, Ride harder

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mortendk commented

woohooo - this is sweet :)
cant wait till this project im working now is done (4.7.5 deadline in 10 days so i dont have the nerves to upgrade it yet...)

look cool & rock n roll'ish & geeky at the same time...
http://flickr.com/photos/mortendk/358194387/

/morten.dk *king of Denmark*

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techczech commented

Thank you all for all the work. I am amazed at how many sites there are that are already using the new theme with their color scheme. This is going to be a revolution of what the web looks like!
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rszrama commented

Excellent news. And the cookies were yummy. ^_^

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ibanez182 commented

Grrrrrrrrrrrrreat work!

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Bahattee commented

You can see the so-called digg-effect allready. :D

Congrats for this great release! Thank you!

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bcn commented

It's going to be interesting to see what kind of hits drupal.org took today, and how well it stands up...

Congratulations and thanks to all the developers, you all rock! Big ups also to all the contributers and users.

thanks!

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Downward Spiral commented

Biggest hand ever! Happy Birthday! :)

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carlmcdade commented

How long before the download updates? The link says 5.0 but the file name is 5.0 beta 2.

Never mind a blink later and it's fixed!

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rooey commented

Drupal Rocks! ;-)

Grats everyone.

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Bèr Kessels commented

Spread the news on your local services too: The Dutch Digg for this release.

Congrats!

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bonobo commented

It's like Christmas and my birthday rolled into one!

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pamphile commented

Congradulations to everyone involved. And those Drupal cookies really look tasty. http://buytaert.net/happy-sixth-birthday-drupal

Time to Upgrade !
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Duplika commented

Those cookies made me hungry.
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ebw commented

signature left on blank check, reward if found

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brst t commented

Happy Birthday, Drupal

I especially like the changes I found at http://drupal.org/project/Modules/date , today

Trish

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Walt Esquivel commented

...updated to 5.x so far today!!!

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niklp commented

Yeah... this is a very good thing! :)

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spazio commented

I am running a number of Drupal Sites and was looking forward to this announcement! Thank you so much. I am sure the number of Drupal installs will increase dramatically with this release. All the best from Berlin!

Mario

www.perspektive89.com
www.asiapolis.de
www.hhmmm.com

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Caleb G2 commented

Take it for a spin.

Username/password: demo

Have fun.

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venkat-rk commented

Thank you for providing this demo. It helped me see most of the latest features instead of just reading about it or first having to install it.

Would be a great idea for drupal.org to provide a similar service for future releases, at least when there are major changes. CiviCRM has always done this for all its releases.

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Hasior commented

Thank's!

I have updated the www.fonero.ws and www.onet.se.
Drupal is the best CMS!

Andrzej

onet.se

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notarealperson commented

Looks great!

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Leeteq commented

Thanks to everyone involved, and congratulations!

This is going to be an exciting year for CMS related developments, particularly with Drupal.org up front :-)

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brunodbo
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Time for another upgrade :-)

Congrats to all Drupal'ites!

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slayerment commented

Woohoo! Congratulations to everyone who helped out. I love Drupal so much!

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max.dk commented

HoooooooooooY! congrats drupal!

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dz-1 commented

congrats everyone!

can't wait to give it a whirl (running RC1), and maybe see some live benchmarks!?

:)

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marius.s commented

Dear Drupal,

we have been friends for a long time already.
I am glad that you seem to be healthy and well,
furthermore, I see you getting stronger and stronger each day.

Even though we are parted geographically (I live in Lithuania),
I feel that our bonds are stronger than ever.

Wishing you all the best in your future activities.

Sincerely,
Marius

(left his job, took a career break and left for Asia)

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wbj commented

I see that jQuery also had a birthday. According to http://jquery.com/blog/, jQuery 1.1 was released earlier today.

Is the jQuery 1.1 compressed .js file a safe "drop-in" upgrade to Drupal 5.0 sites?

Thanks!

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Southpaw commented

I am also wondering the same thing :)

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Steven commented

If you read the jQuery 1.1 announcement you can see they broke backwards compatibility. There is a 1.0 compatibility plug-in, but it has not been tested with Drupal 5. Stick to jQuery 1.0 for now.

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psicomante commented

And the great day come at last!! I'm so happy :)

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yngens commented

Congratulations, Drupal Community!
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rainer7 commented

great news. Thanks to all the people involved in this release.

Rainer

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pixor commented

Happy Birthday Drupal!

I've successfully upgraded my D5RC2 installation at www.pixor.co.uk without a hitch. Thanks for all your hard work :-)

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tknospdr commented

dead links on your site?

Thanks,
David
http://www.floridapets.org

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Aero-1 commented

Drupal Lithuania community upgraded and it works great! Thanks to the all Drupal team.

http://drupal.ten.lt

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srrpenna commented

Good News for all drupalites

and happy birthday and congratulations for drupal

Mr Penna

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bd80599 commented

Such a cool release. I've already upgraded my site to 5.0: http://all.ofthe.info/node/52

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dshaw commented

Congratulations and thanks to all involved in this release! It's a big improvement over the 4.x series and well worth the increase to 5.x. I'm certain the web-based install and the new cleaner GUI will lead to a significant increase in the uptake of Drupal.

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Sophia commented

Congratulations, both on your anniversary and on the new version. I upgraded without any problems. Kudos on this wonderful job :)

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David N commented

Happy Birthday to Drupal, and many thanks to everyone who contributed to the release of 5.0. I had just started building a site on 4.7, but put a hold on it once I played around with RC1 and saw the nice little improvements. I look forward to getting back on track and launching my site soon.

http://www.autoconcourse.com (coming soon)

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skhatri commented

Amazing. Exciting. Awesome.

Will be upgrading my websites soon!!!

Shahnawaz Khatri, owner
Internet Marketing 4 Real Estate

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bpocanada commented

Just perfect timing... Go Drupal!

We would be converting all our client sites to Drupal 5.0.. It will be fun!

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hectorplus commented

I have not much... other than a BIG BIG thank you to all the drupal team for the great work!!!

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Walt Esquivel commented

Thanks to everyone who assisted with this wonderful release! Developers, testers, and folks who submitted bugs and feature requests ALL played an important role and the Drupal community thanks you. If you find any bugs in the current release and/or if you want features added in future releases, please be sure to submit an issue.

I wish I had some Drupal cookies to hand out...they look really tasty!

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v1nce commented

Fabulous! Congrats to the Drupal community.
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Coupon Code Swap commented

Hurray!!! Thank you to all the hard working devs! Full steam ahead.

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ChrisBryant commented

Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this happen! I'm looking forward to putting it to good use.
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Bèr Kessels commented

For their friendly announcement and congratulations. It shows very well that Open Source is about friendship!

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Walt Esquivel commented

I liked Joomla!'s comment:

Our two projects are often compared, and there is nothing wrong with comparison... but make no mistake of it, we are all on the same side working to enable people... because we both believe that open source matters.

It's good to hear that Joomla! and Drupal are "friends with common goals."

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tarmo commented

Interesting, almost the same date, Wikipedia was launched as an English language project on January 15, 2001.

Drupal Five is great! I did smooth and fast upgrade to 5 on www.ourworldtravels.com

Thank you.

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igorik commented

great new year news
I will upgrade asap as all cpntributed modules I use will be ready.

Thanks all

Igor Krutak
www.somvprahe.sk

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Gman commented

Great job everyone. Really looking forward to using the new features seeing the speed updates. Can't wait to start using this in production sites.

Greg

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TLHP commented

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ! Drupal rocks ^_^

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incom commented

Drupal Five is great! I did smooth and fast upgrade to 5 on www.artkerala.com

Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this happen!

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sarahr commented

Is there a page somewhere that lists an overview of all of the changes/enhancements/upgrades within 5.0, particulary vis-a-vis 4.7.x? (Something a bit more user-friendly than install notes/change logs included in the tarball, hopefully...)

Thank you.

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Steven commented

Um. Check the official announcement which is linked only about a dozen times?

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omlx commented

great news. Thanks to all the people involved in this release.

Fahad

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viskiman commented

Great news. Thank you all for your work.

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roadburn commented

Woo hoo! Fantastic news! :)


www.hockeycircle.net is now drupal 5.0 powered!

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Stefansl commented

Nice to hear that, so i decided to move my site from wordpress to drupal.

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harriska2 commented

Upgraded 3 out of 5 sites with no problems. Directions work great. Good thing I stuck with well-supported modules. It goes so well, I no longer upgrade backup sites for testing. Beautiful. Thanks so much. Dugg. Bravo.

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paulap commented

I have installed the brand new production version on www.pitschek.com and it works perfect. A lot of new features and very stable.

Thx for the excellent work to all...

paulap

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rnd commented

I had some issues upgrading to 5.0, tried several times over but I always got "Page not found" finally I did the smart thing and checked the log to find out that drupal was looking for /frontpage. So I just restored my db backup again and disabled the frontpage redirect before trying the upgrade again. No problems... In retrospect I realize it might have also worked to simply install the frontpage module for 5.0 before upgrading, but I haven't tried it...

I hope this helps someone aviod the frustration I felt dealing with this problem!

Good luck all!

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Laurentvw commented

Oops I'm late! Still awesome :) thanks to the team.

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olav commented

Independent as we often need to be, Drupal is always worth a recommendation.
And we come back time and time again to you.
You just fit so many cases.

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UofL commented

Install was actually very similar to WP (which I mean as a compliment). I had my site up and running in minutes. I had some issues with a funny host and clean URLs but the support forums here got me up and running fast. I'm so impressed.

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spyderpie commented

I just got my first look at the new Drupal ..... wow .... I'll be up all night playing!

Congratulations, I personally think that the new installer, very organized admin navigation and cleaner look and feel was what Drupal needed to push it far over the edge from other CMS's. It's AWESOME!

I can't wait to upgrade!

Julie

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janne commented

I just upgraded to 5.x from 4.7 and am currently looking at the administration page in awe! I still have a lot of work to do before I'll consider putting my site back online, but I had to take the time to congratulate and thank everyone who has worked on this for their great efforts.

This rocks! :)

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Laurentvw commented

Drupal 5.1 sure looks good, though I had a lot of trouble upgrading from my 4.6 version. And the login doesn't work in IE.
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