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myDropWizard.com: We’ve made 99 Drupal 6 Long-Term Support releases… what does that mean for Drupal 7?

As you may or may not know, we’ve been providing Drupal 6 Long-Term Support (D6LTS) since February 24, 2016, as one of two vendors officially blessed by the Drupal Security Team to do so.

In that time, we have made 99 releases (both Drupal core and contrib) for D6LTS!

Most of those were security releases, but there were also a handful of bug fixes, and most recently, updates to support PHP 7.2(FYI: As of a couple days ago, PHP 5 has also reached it’s End-of-Life (EOL) – do you have a plan to update to PHP 7.1 or 7.2?)

When we were first talking to potential customers about D6LTS, I remember many people doubting that we’d be releasing anything at all!

They’d say something like “Drupal 6 has been around so long, aren’t all the security issues shaken out by now?” Almost 100 releases later, and I’d say there was plenty to be done. There still is! 🙂

In this article, I’m going to look back on Drupal 6 LTS, and also look forward to what that may mean for Drupal 7 extended support after it reaches its End-of-Life.