History
| Major Version | Release Date |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | 15 Jan 2001 |
| 2.0 | 15 Mar 2001 |
| 3.0 | 15 Sep 2001 |
| 4.0 | 16 Jun 2002 |
| 5.0 | 15 Jan 2007 |
| 6.0 | 13 Feb 2008 |
| 7.0 | 5 Jan 2011 |
| 8.0 | Aug 2013 |
Originally written by Dries Buytaert as a message board, Drupal became an open source project in 2001. Drupal is an English rendering of the Dutch word "druppel", which means "drop" (as in "a water droplet"). The name was taken from the now-defunct Drop.org website, whose code slowly evolved into Drupal. Buytaert wanted to call the site "dorp" (Dutch for "village") for its community aspects, but mistyped it when checking the domain name and thought the error sounded better.
A community now helps develop Drupal, and Drupal's popularity is growing rapidly. From July 2007 to June 2008, Drupal was downloaded from the Drupal.org website more than 1.4 million times, an increase of approximately 125% from the previous year.
As of February 2012, hundreds of thousands of sites used Drupal. These include hundreds of well-known organizations, including corporations, media & publishing companies, governments, non-profits, schools, and individuals. Drupal also won several Packt Open Source CMS Awards and won the Webware 100 three times in a row.
On March 5, 2009, Buytaert announced a code freeze for Drupal 7 for September 1, 2009. Drupal 7 was released on January 5, 2011, with release parties in multiple countries. As of this release, maintenance for Drupal 5 has stopped, and only Drupal 7 and Drupal 6 are maintained. The latest version is Drupal 7.17, released on 5 Nov 2012.
Drupal 8 is in development and a release has been set for August 2013. The work on Drupal 8 is divided in the categories, called Core initiatives, Mobile, Layouts, Web Services and Configuration management. The Google Summer of Code is sponsoring 20 Drupal projects.
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