The final version of the content management system with the open source code Drupal 7 has been finally released. The participants of the project, software developers, have spent more than two years on its development.
The new version of the platform is characterized by numerous improvements. Among the most interesting ones one should mention the optimized CMS core and the updated mechanism of data caching, the improved security tools, the new administration interface, the extended set of API functions as well as the system of automatic Drupal modules updating. The complete list of the introduced changes is presented on the official site.
Drupal 7 is positioned by software developers as a convenient and powerful platform for creating any types of resources: from micro sites and blogs to portals and large social projects. The system allows installing additional modules, expandable basic functions and supports the localization of the interface for various languages including the Russian language.
According to the research carried out by the experts from the W3Techs laboratory, among one million popular network resources in Alexa terms the Drupal platform is one of the three most popular platforms among open solution web developers, only WordPress and Joomla being ahead of it.
