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Monday, April 12, 2010

Difference between Drupal 5 and 6 versions

Different versions of Drupal do have new APIs, new functionality, some things made obsolete. Design and code improvement are always considered more important than backward compatibility in Drupal.Drupal is never rewritten from scratch with every version. The changes are usually located to a couple of areas of work, which it is possible to follow.

some of the new features in drupal 6 are

* Quick and easy setup
* Drag-and-drop administration
* All languages spoken here!
* Actions and triggers
* Sign in with OpenID
* Update status module
* Optimized code
* A new menu system
* Scalability options
* Scripting from the command line etc

For more details see http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0