August 8, 2024 saw the release of Drupal 11. Drupal 11 adds a few new notable features:
- Recipes enable applying complex configuration with recipes
- Workspaces provide a robust content staging workflow on your production site
- Single-Directory Components enable simplified front-end development
You can read more about what’s new in 11 this drupal.org post.
Drupal 10 has long term support (LTS), meaning it will be supported until Drupal 12 is released, which is expected in 2026. Drupal. This gives Drupal 10 users considerable time to update to Drupal 11. A decent portion of popular modules now have D11 versions, so for some site owners it may already be possible to update to D11.
Drupal 8 and 9 are no longer supported, and sites running those versions should update to D10 or D11 as soon as possible. The update from D8 to D9 is a more challenging than later updates.
Drupal 7 has long-term support until January 5, 2025, when it reaches endo-of-life. After that it will receive no further security updates. Sites still on D7 should really have switched off of that a while ago, but still have time to make the switch. Read more about Drupal 7 end-of-life