Drupal 9 Upgrade Won’t Require a Rebuild

Stanford Sites built on Drupal 8 (D8) were automatically upgraded to D9 on Feb. 18.

Stanford Web Services pushed updates to D8 websites without the rebuild process associated with previous releases. Sites currently running on D7 can be rebuilt on D9 and bypass D8 entirely. When D10 is released in 2022, these sites will be upgraded without a need to rebuild.

Stanford Web Services does the heavy lifting so you don’t have to

The SWS team takes on tasks like reworking code to use new services, removing deprecated code, monitoring core and contributed module status, and managing minimum security compliance, just to name a few. In turn, you can take advantage of new themes to refresh the look of your sites, access a vast media library, and use drag and drop features to quickly and easily update pages.

The goal of the multi-year Drupal project is to develop a central system that improves reliability and security for the Stanford Sites Drupal platform as a whole and allows sites to automatically receive regular security patches and upgrades.

In addition to the D9 upgrade, our team is releasing three new features. Read more in this UIT Stanford Web Services blog post.