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Drupal celebrates birthday with Drupal 5.0

by Kamrul

drupalYesterday (January 15,2007) Drupal turned six, one of the greatest CMS ever. WP (WordPress) may be the most popular blogging platform but when it comes to static web site CMS Drupal takes the top spot. Drupal celebrate it’s six birthday in a unique way by releasing Drupal 5.0. That means finally after five years since the release of Drupal 4.0 in 2002, Drupal is moving towards version change instead of sticking with branches. According to Drupal release post- 492 contributors to the Drupal 5.0 release submitting 1173 patches, which is 150 more contributors than the previous upgrade. As you can see Drupal community is gradually increasing. Drupal power lots of great and famous sites on the net, like- MTV UK, One of the Sites of NASA and not to mention our beloved Spreadfirefox.com.

The 4.7 branch will continue to be supported, but as you can guess the branches of 4 will be no longer get priority in their developer community, so better switch to latest version. Drupal 4.6 branch is no longer maintained, if you are running 4.6 you should switch to 4.7 or better if Drupal 5.0. There is some changes brought in Drupal 5-

  • Usability Improvements (New Admin pages,Multiple setting pages (all settings rearranged into multiple pages) and some minor changes)

Apart from changes there are a huge addition of new feature in Drupal 5.0-

  • Status page and requirement checking
  • Web-based installer
  • Core theme
  • Custom content types
  • URL filter
  • Blocks per role
  • Edit block titles
  • User management improvements
  • Improved module administration
  • More logging reports
  • CSS preprocessor
  • Performance tuning

If you think that’s the end think again Drupal 5.0 also bring features like-JavaScript library, Reorganized directory structure, Uninstalling modules, Pluggable cache backends, Pluggable session handling, PHPTemplate improvements, Node access arbiter, Node rendering and Form API just especially for developers.

You will find complete installation, upgrade instructions as well as complete descriptions of all these new features in the Drupal 5.0 release page.

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