***Sessions and speakers are subject to change. Additional sessions will be added as they become available.
09:00 to 09:50 PDT
With an estimated 400,000 sites facing the mandatory transition to Drupal 10 by 2025, there is an urgent need for efficient, time-saving solutions. Retrofit answers this call. Retrofit provides a backward compatibility layer to run your Drupal 7 code within a Drupal 10 code base.
When you log in into a Drupal Site, by default you land on a mostly empty page which shows you how old your account is in the site. That’s not the best UX out there.
One of the big strategic changes we’ll see on Drupal’s Admin UI in the next months is the new toolbar, that will bring several usability improvements beyond the main administration menu and involving several layout changes.
The goals of the Project Browser Strategic Initiative are to allow users to search for projects (modules) compatible with their website's version of Drupal from within the website itself and to install selected modules with the click of a button.
11:30 to 12:20 PDT
Come to this session to learn more about what's new in Drupal 11, what's changed and how to prepare. As of this submission, Drupal 11 is targeted for August 2024 with a fallback of December 2024, so by DrupalCon Portland 2024, we should have a really good idea about it.
"[The Recipes Initiative] is a great example of making it easy for people to be part of Drupal and the open web." - Dries Buytaert, Driesnote, DrupalCon Prague
43% of the entire Drupal community is on Drupal 7. Drupal 7 end of life is coming in 2025. Acquia recently open sourced our migration automation tool, Acquia Migrate: Accelerate (AM:A) to help the community get to D10 and prepare for D11.
Is your site one of the many Drupal sites running outdated and possibly insecure versions of Drupal core? Come to this session to learn how the Automatic Updates module can help keep your site up-to-date with the latest security updates and make using Composer with a Drupal site easier.
