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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Moving from WCMS 2 to WCMS 3

The Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS) is moving from WCMS 2, built using Drupal 7, to WCMS 3, built using Drupal 8. This move, necessitated by the fact that Drupal 7 will be reaching end-of-life in November 2021, is not a straightforward one.

Drupal 8 has been completely rewritten, a change that will require WCMS 3 to be built, versus merely upgraded to.

The main objective of this project is to build a version of the WCMS that, as much as possible, replicates all existing presentation and end-user functionality of WCMS 2, using Drupal 8 at the core. Please note, this project excludes UWaterloo Scholar websites.