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[policy, no patch] Drop support for Windows in production in Drupal 11

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Created on 28 March 2024, 11 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Following on from 🌱 [policy, no patch] Drop support for Windows in production Needs review . It is recommended to read that issue and the comments.

Windows has added full support for running Linux distros within Windows. There's also docker (and ddev which runs on docker) that make it easy to set up development environments in using containers. Actual manual configuration of apache for local development is very optional these days.

Additionally, it's also hard to find reviewers for issues with windows issues - for example filesystem bugs. Also, we have no way to add automated testing for Windows environments.

Note that there's an issue to move example nginx configuration into core, but that would only be an example ✨ Provide documentation/default server block for Nginx server. Needs work , not 'live' config, it's also not anywhere near RTBC.

Proposed resolution

Stop supporting running Drupal directly on Windows on production. We would still accept bug reports for Windows on development environments. One example is something like not using DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR correctly.

Sites wanting to use Windows servers in production would need to run Drupal on Linux on Windows, which should not result in additional surface area for security reports against Drupal, since as far as Drupal's concerned it would still be running on Linux.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

🌱 Plan
Status

Active

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Base  →

Last updated 1 day ago

Created by

🇳🇿New Zealand quietone

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  • Issue created by @quietone
  • Comment 2 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States alieffring

    As someone who did Drupal on Windows for about a decade: yes, please. It always felt like being a second class citizen, there was always something little going wrong that took extra time to figure out because nobody else was seeing it. But the sysadmin really liked his windows servers and it was supported so we stuck with it. Making official what is already essentially true seems like the right move here.

  • Comment 2 months ago →
    🇨🇦Canada nickdickinsonwilde Victoria, BC (T'So-uke lands)

    I have dealt with other people choices to run Drupal on Windows Servers - including Drupal 10.
    Strongly in favour of dropping official support.

  • Comment about 1 month ago →
    🇩🇪Germany joachim namyslo Kulmbach 🇩🇪 🇪🇺

    Since Microsoft and canonical invented the SSL it should be fully ok to drop windows support when wsl isn't used. Even PHP windows binaries will run down soon. Just because they are not needed anymore. Now we can use all that with a pretty stable walk layer.

    Tested Windows + WSL + Debian 12 + Drupal CMS 1.0 today. It works perfectly.

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