You may have noticed that today the Drupal Security Team marked 16 modules as unsupported, due to the module maintainer not fixing a reported security vulnerability after a sufficiently long period of time.

Among those modules, there were a few very popular ones like Admininistration Views and Nodequeue, which have have reported ~118k and ~40k sites using them, respectively.

Everytime a popular module is unsupported, there’s a certain amount of panic and uncertainty, so I wanted to address that in this article, both for the Drupal community at large and for our customers in particular, because we promise to deploy security updates the same day they are released.

Read more to see our perspective!