At the end of 2013, big changes were made to the Drupal release cycle.

You can read full details of the changes at https://drupal.org/node/2135189.

The changes will start with Drupal 8, but are going to impact almost all current and future versions.

In this blog post, I'll give you a short, plain-English overview of the changes.

I'll show how the changes will impact users of Drupal 6, 7, 8 and 9.