Drupal 7 Is Here

Drupal 7 is an official release now. After almost three years of hard work from the community, Drupal has achieved its seventh milestone.

From the Drupal.org release page, Drupal 7 offers:

• Vastly improved administrative user interface thanks to the D7UX movement
• Flexible content and custom fields
• Better visual presentation and theming with Render API
• Accessibility is greatly improved
• Image support is now included
• Automated code testing
• Improved database support
• Better distribution support
• Support for the Semantic Web through RDFa markup
• Over 850 Drupal 7 contributed modules have met their #d7cx pledges.

Here are the system requirements for Drupal 7:

You will need:

• Web Server: Apache (recommended), Nginx, Lighttpd, or Microsoft IIS
• Database: MySQL 5.0.15 and higher, PostgreSQL 8.3 and higher, or SQLite 3.x
• PHP: 5.2.4 and higher
• *Memory: 32MB (A site with a number of commonly used modules enabled may require 64 MB of memory or more.)

  Find out more at the Official Drupal 7 page.

  

  I offer a personal thank you to all who contributed and congratulate them on the many hours of hard work.

  How will you use the new Drupal 7?