This post is part of our Drupal 9 upgrade series. If you're on Drupal 8 already, there's lots of useful advice below; we'll also have a post just for you soon.

Drupal 7 will be unsupported past 2021. Consider this post your 18 month friendly nudge  :-)

With end-of-life for Drupal 7 security support set for the end of 2021 and the release of Drupal 9 this summer, it's time to make a plan.

You've likely already been thinking about what to do with your current Drupal 7 site. Starting with a formal review that we outline below now (ideally by sometime in Q2 2020), gives you time to audit your existing site, evaluate needs and options, and create a budget and process plan for upgrading to Drupal 9 before D7's security updates reach end-of-life status.