Upgrading Your Code to Drupal 11

At a Glance

Date

2024-08-14

Language

PHP

Topic

Drupal

Tags

Drupal

Summary

We'll explore the automated tools available as well as the manual steps necessary to get your project - whether a contrib module, a single custom module or a whole site upgraded to Drupal 11.

Regardless of if your site's dependencies are ready, you can and should make your site and custom modules ready and you can do that now.

Presented at Drupal GovCon 2024 - 2 weeks post Drupal 11 Release.

Prerequisites

Moderate comfort with CLI
Moderate comfort with Composer
Site on Drupal 10 (needs to be on 10.3 for actually installing 11, but can do that as part of this)
Development server with:
- PHP 8.3
- Composer 2.7.7+
- Supported Database Version

For those that don't like recorded sessions, here's the slides.

The important take aways:

Update to PHP 8.3 now
Update to Drupal 10.3 now
Prep custom code for Drupal 11 now
Contrib isn't ready - top 30 is pretty good except webforms. If you can accept a bunch of patches, you can definitely update just takes a bit of work.

For those that were present or watch the recording, yes, did easily complete the upgrade for that site. Excluding updates to my own contrib modules which I did on the weekend, it took about another hour for that small site. Screenshot of the status page below