Drupal 7 EOL January 5, 2025 — ~291,386 sites still on D7 in Sept 2024; migration is effectively a rebuild

Claim: Drupal 7 reached end-of-life on January 5, 2025 — "no longer receive official security updates." Approximately 291,386 sites were still on Drupal 7 as of September 2024.

Quote (Drupal community):

"Drupal 7's Core, modules and themes don't exactly have a clear upgrade path to higher versions" — migration is functionally a rebuild.

Source: https://drupal.org/about/drupal-7/d7eol/migration-resource-center; https://orionweb.uk/blog-posts/drupal-7-end-of-life-migration-options

Confidence: Verified.

The platform-EOL forcing function pattern. ~290k sites had to choose between (a) running unpatched software indefinitely, (b) paying for extended commercial support, or (c) rebuilding. Pairs with Shopify checkout.liquid sunset (Aug 2024 → Aug 2025 → June 30 2026) — unmigrated customizations will be DELETED (47k Plus merchants forced to migrate by Shopify), Squarespace acquired Google Domains for $180M (Sept 7, 2023) — ~10M SMB domains migrated automatically (10M domains migrated automatically). Every platform sunsets eventually. See RULE: A platform that cannot produce a clean export today is a hostage situation. Treat it as such..