Planet Drupal

Dylan Clear

March 15, 2017

Continuous Long Term Support

Security Monitoring for Drupal 6, 7, and 8

Though it came and went largely unnoticed, February 24th, 2017 marked an important anniversary to tens of thousands of Drupal website owners. February 24th 2017 was the 1-year anniversary of the End-of-Life (EOL) announcement for Drupal 6 as no longer supported by the Drupal community. It is widely known that major Drupal version upgrades require non-trivial resources. Not only do they require significant planning, technical expertise, and budget, but the path is often determined by...

Sam Boyer

October 25, 2016

Tag1 Quo

Finding a Place in the (Version) Universe, Part 2

When we left off last time, we’d assembled a definition of what versions are. Now, we’re going to dive into how we use them in Tag1 Quo: comparing them to one another! The general goal is straightforward enough: we want to know if, say, 6.x-1.0 is less than 6.x-1.1. (Yup!) Or if 6.x-1.0-alpha1 is less than 6.x-1.0. (Also yup!) Let’s rewrite these two examples as tuple comparisons: {6,1,0,4,0,0} {6,1,1,4,0,0} = TRUE {6,1,0,0,0,0} {6,1,1,0,0,0}...

Sam Boyer

October 20, 2016

Tag1 Quo

Versions, Versions Everywhere, Part 1

When Tag1 decided to build Tag1 Quo, we knew there was one question we’d have to answer over, and over, and over again: is there a security update available for this extension? Answering that question - at scale, for many websites, across many extensions, through all the possible versions they might have - is the heart of what Quo does. The problem seems simple enough, but doing it at such scale, for “all” versions, and...

Randy Fay

August 30, 2016

Tag1 Quo

Drupal 6 Long Term Support is My Favorite Feature of Drupal 8

Long Term Support for Drupal 6 might be my favorite new feature included in Drupal 8. (I know, that might be stretching things for the fundamentally awesome step forward that Drupal 8 is, but bear with me.) If you're like me, you have loved the power of building websites for people that expose their ideas or services to the world. If you're like me, you've ended up "owning" a number of these websites that you...

Jeremy Andrews

August 22, 2016

What We Did This Summer

Tag1 Quo and Drupal 6 Long Term Support

t’s been an exciting summer, building our first product with Drupal 8. When we originally made the decision to offer Long Term Support for Drupal 6, we were thinking about a few of our clients that were a little behind on their upgrade plans, and had envisioned a mostly manual process. However, once we took the plunge and signed up new clients, we had more modules and themes to track than could easily be done...