Project present and future

Key features in version 1.30

Release date: January 15th, 2025

Backdrop 1.30 (release notes) new features include:

  1. Add basic backup and restore functionality to update.php
  2. Streamline login pages with options for no-tabs and simplified layout
  3. Replace the token browser with the Fast Token Browser from contrib (see change record)
  4. Add a new SVG image for hero block in Basis
  5. Add a preview of the background image to Hero block configuration forms
  6. Add parent menu selector to menu add/edit link form
  7. Add support for supplemental CSS selectors in Basis
  8. Allow the "Book outline" vertical tab in the content create/edit form to be hidden
  9. Convert "Recent content" block to a View
See the GitHub issue tracker for all 1.30 issues.

Features planned for version 1.31

Scheduled release date: May 15th, 2025

See the GitHub issue tracker for 1.31 issues.

Goals for 1.x

All Backdrop 1.x releases will include new features that do not require API breaks. A subset of proposed topics are listed below. Please note: our priorities may change based on the most urgent needs of the Backdrop community.

General Goals

  1. A more intuitive administrative interface with every release.
  2. Improved the out-of-the-box Experience.
  3. Ensure that a transition from Drupal 7 is as smooth as possible.
  4. More TBD!

Specific Goals

  1. Automatic core updates (push-button core updates have been available since 1.11).
  2. Improved multilingual support (especially for RTL languages).
  3. More TBD!

Goals for 2.0

Backdrop 2.0 will NOT be released before January 15th, 2025.

Backdrop Version 1 will continue to be the active branch of development until at least January 15th, 2025. Backdrop version 1 will continue to be supported until Backdrop version 3 is released.

Backdrop 2.0 will include the removal of deprecated functions, and will most likely include changes in HTML markup.

The upgrade from Backdrop 1 to Backdrop 2 will be easier than the upgrade from Drupal 7 to Backdrop CMS, which is already easier than the upgrade from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 or Drupal 9.

See the GitHub issue tracker for more 2.x issues for a set of proposed changes that cannot happen during the 1.x cycle.

See the summary of discussions that took place in early 2024.