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Understanding Drupal

This guide gives you a broader picture of Drupal concepts and helps you understand its framework behind Drupal and assists you in determining whether Drupal is a good fit for your project.

Before you install Drupal, it’s a good idea to get an overall sense of what it is and how it works, either on your localhost or hosting providers. This small investment of time can help you immensely over the long term.

Overview of Drupal

The Flexibility and Simplicity You Need To Power Your Website and Web Application.

Drupal 9 release date and what it means

Drupal 9 was released on June 3, 2020. It was released alongside a long-term-support (LTS) Drupal 8.9 minor release.

User Guide PDF and ePub downloads

Download e-book versions of the User Guide, in PDF and ePub format.

How Drupal 9 was made and what is included

Drupal 9 was mostly built in Drupal 8 using deprecations and optional updated dependency support.

Drupal 9 resources

There are several community resources to learn more about Drupal 9 and to get involved.

Understanding Drupal version numbers

Understand Drupal’s version numbering scheme for Drupal core, and for contributed modules and themes, so that you know which version to use.

Guide maintainers

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