D6 LTS

Drupal 7 Extended Support From Tag1

lynette@tag1consulting.com — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:07:12 +0000

Tag1 Consulting is proud to announce that it has been selected by the Drupal Association and Drupal Security Team as an approved member of the Drupal 7 Extended Support (D7ES) Program. Drupal 7 end-of-life is November 2022, and the Drupal security team is partnering with a few select vendors with the demonstrated expertise to provide security and maintenance support to ensure that orgs using D7 can continue to run it, well into the future. Tag1 Consulting is one of the all time leading contributors to Drupal, and one of only two companies currently offering Drupal 6 Extended Support. We have a proven track record, and over 5 years of experience enabling orgs to maximize the lifespan and return on investment in Drupal - we helped pioneer the model for Drupal Extended Support. When Drupal 7 reaches its end of life, the community will no longer be providing updates, security fixes, or enhancements. Tag1 helps Drupal 7 and Drupal 6 websites stay up to date with its Tag1 Quo subscription product and service offering. Tag1 Quo is unique in providing you with a dashboard, enabling you to see exactly what security and maintenance issues need work, from urgent down to minor...

lynette@tag1co… Mon, 01/18/2021 - 09:07

Security Monitoring for Drupal 6, 7, and 8

dylanclear — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:33:59 +0000

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 funding and availability of maintainers of popular contributed functionality (modules). Add the complexity of upgrading custom development, and the conditions create significant challenges for small to medium websites without large operating budgets. As evidence of this, our research indicates there are at least 150,000 publicly accessible sites still running Drupal 6. One of a Kind Tag1 Quo is the only Drupal monitoring solution that supports Drupal 6 LTS, Drupal 7, and Drupal 8 under one dashboard. Check It Out! For most D6 site managers, the most critical (and stressful) impact of EOL is the discontinuation of Drupal 6 security patches by the Drupal security team. When a major version reaches EOL, the Drupal security team ceases to release patches, or serve public Security Advisories for...

dylanclear Wed, 03/15/2017 - 15:33

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

rfay — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:04:42 +0000

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 somehow ended up supporting along the way too. And if you're like me, you've ended up with lots of Drupal 6 websites to support, even though D6 hit End-of-Life on February 24th, 2016. There are a lot of D6 sites out there with no money for an upgrade, but which still have a niche to fill or useful information for the world. Those can be an albatross around our necks and a time sink. We don't have the resources to update (and their owners don't either) but we can't set the site owners adrift. When previous versions of Drupal hit end-of-life, it was always a catastrophe for those of us with sites out there. Upgrade or else. Very costly in time and effort or money...

rfay Tue, 08/30/2016 - 08:04

Tag1 Quo and Drupal 6 Long Term Support

Jeremy — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:42:03 +0000

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 manually, and it remained critically important we never miss an upstream release.

Jeremy Mon, 08/22/2016 - 08:42