![]() ![]() ![]() Updating Drupal sites can be a challenging, tedious, and costly process. Listed as one of the Drupal Core Strategic Initiatives for Drupal 9, Drupal’s automatic updates are intended to resolve some of the most intractable usability issues in maintaining Drupal sites. In this blog post, we dive into some of the fascinating background and compelling features in Drupal’s new automatic updates, as well as how this revolutionary feature will evolve in the future. Recently, I ( Preston So, Editor in Chief at Tag1 and author of Decoupled Drupal in Practice) sat down with Lucas Hedding (Senior Architect and Data and Application Migration Expert at Tag1), Fabian Franz (Senior Technical Architect and Performance Lead at Tag1), Tim Lehnen (CTO at the Drupal Association), and Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1) to host a Tag1 Team Talks episode about the story of Tag1’s involvement in the automatic updates strategic initiative. Over the last several years, Tag1 Consulting, well-known as leading performance and scalability experts in the Drupal community, has worked closely with the Drupal Association, MTech, and the Free and Open Source Software Auditing (FOSSA) program at the European Commission to make automatic updates in Drupal a reality. As one of the roughly dozen Drupal Core Strategic Initiatives, Drupal automatic updates are a key feature that will offer Drupal users better peace of mind when minor releases occur. Indeed, many in the Drupal community simply choose to ignore the automatic e-mails generated by indicating the availability of a new version, and waiting can lead to compounding security vulnerabilities.įortunately, the era of frustration when it comes to automatic updates in Drupal is now over. ![]() Updates can involve a difficult set of highly specific steps that challenge even the most patient among us. A common complaint of Drupal site administrators, especially those who have smaller sites updated less frequently, is the frequently complex and drawn-out process required to update a Drupal site from one minor version to another. Over the course of Drupal’s lengthy history, one of the most common feature requests has been automatic updates. ![]()
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