Web Open Updates

CivicPlus has put significant time, investment, and planning into preparing for the migration of Drupal 7 and Drupal 9 websites to the latest version of Drupal 10. We want to assure our customers that we have been working continuously to develop the best strategy and automation to make this transition as smooth as possible.

For additional information please view the Web Open Frequently Asked Questions.

Key Dates to Remember

• Drupal 9 End of Life (EOL): November 1, 2023
• Drupal 7 End of Life (EOL): January 5, 2023
  • CivicPlus is on top of these changes and has plans in place to get Drupal 7 and Drupal
    9 customers over to Drupal 10.

For Customers Currently On Drupal 7

The transition from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9 or 10 is a big leap and requires special migration work on our part. Existing customers who have a Drupal 7 website will be migrated to the Drupal 10 version.

For Customers Currently on Drupal 9

For websites already utilizing the Drupal 9 version, upgrading to the next version, Drupal 10, is as easy as an update on your phone! Your website Drupal 9 website will be updated to version 10 by November 1, 2023, with little impact on you. Upgrading from Drupal 9 to Drupal 10 has an impact on the CivicPlus development team and our team has devoted a lot of time and effort to building out the new Drupal 10 upgrade, but there will be little impact on you as the customer. You may notice small changes throughout, but they should be intuitive and have little impact on doing business as usual.

Future Upgrades Will Be Backward Compatible!

The newer and future versions of Drupal will be backward compatible, and the updates will be just that- simple updates without all of the effort that had to go into the big transition from Drupal 7 over to Drupal 9 or 10.

Ongoing Key Updates

• August - November 2023

  • Upgrading all D9 Customers from CKEditor 4 to CKEditor 5 in preparation for Drupal migration to D10. Impact on CivicPlus development, but little impact on customers.

• September 2023

  • Finishing up work on building Drupal 10 to prepare to upgrade all D9 clients to D10 before D9 EOL November 1, 2023.

• June - Oct 2023

  • Continuing to build Drupal 10, in preparation for Drupal 9 end of life on Nov 1, 2023.

• June 7, 2023

  • DrupalCon, Pittsburgh, PA – Product Announcements made:

    • EOL for D7 is pushed back to JAN 5, 2025

    • Drupal 9 EOL is NOV 1, 2023

• 2022-2023

  • Development team working on tooling to help more easily switch customers from Drupal 7 to Web Open (Drupal 10). Migrations will occur gradually over time.

• March 2023

  • CP leadership meets in person with Acquia regarding Drupal 9/10 changes and planning for migration from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9/10

• September 2022

  • All new CivicPlus clients using the new Drupal 9 product

• April - September 2022

  • Beta group of existing Drupal 7 customers provide feedback and testing of new Drupal 9 Web Open product

• 2021-2022

  • Collaborating closely with Acquia on plans and Building the Drupal 9 website version