Symfony provides a set of well-documented, reusable components and tools that can be leveraged by developers to build Drupal sites more quickly and efficiently. The use of Symfony components and conventions in Drupal makes the codebase more organized and consistent, which makes it easier to maintain and extend. Symfony components are designed to be lightweight and efficient, which helps to improve the overall performance and scalability of Drupal. Symfony is a widely used PHP framework, and thus has a large community of developers who can contribute to and support Drupal. I asked this of Josh Estep, a Senior Drupal Developer for Promet, and he explained five essential benefits of Symfony: So if Symfony is the source of the recent upheaval, why the switch? What has Driven Drupal's Symfony Dependency? Drupal 7, on the other hand, does not have a Symfony dependency, and we anticipate that commercial support will be available for Drupal 7 sites following D7 end of life – which is scheduled for November of 2023. When a Symfony dependency reaches end of life, that translates into no option for extended, off-grid support from commercial vendors for security maintenance and bug fixes. End of life means an end of Drupal Community support, as was the case for the November 2021 end of life for Drupal 8. Drupal 9 is based on Symfony 4 and CK Editor 4, both of which are slated for end-of-life in November of 2023. The primary issue driving what feels like an accelerated timeframe for the recent Drupal 10 release is Drupal’s current Symfony dependency. The two and a half years between the release of Drupal 10 in December of 2022, and the release of Drupal 9 in June of 2020 is in sharp contrast to the four and a half years between the release of Drupal 8 and 9, and the nearly five years between the release of Drupal 7 and 8. We’re hearing it these days from many of our support clients:ĭrupal did not always move so fast.
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