If you want to request a Backdrop version, you could do that here, but backports from D8+ versions are much harder than ports from D7 version, so you may not get much traction.
It may be that a Backdrop version would be easy to backport to D7 but given the definite end of life announced here, it is very unlikely that anyone would be investing time in a D7 version:
I'm guessing, by the fact that you're here on the Backdrop CMS forum, that you have started the journey of considering whether Backdrop is the right destination for your D7 site. If we can help with anything related to your evaluation and/or upgrade to Backdrop CMS, please feel free to ask here, in our chat channel (https://backdrop.zulipchat.com/#all_messages), or in our weekly Office Hours sessions (see the top of the sidebar for the link)
Thanks! The site was on PHP 7.0. With assistance from my hosting provider, I updated to PHP 7.4 and now I have access to the site again. No database re-import required.
The best you can do is test and report. If you find a contrib that doesn't work in php 8.3, create an issue in its queue so it gets fixed.
In my experience, I've found that 7.4 is safest...
Posted2 days 19 hours ago by Alejandro Cremaschi (argiepiano) on:
Hi argiepiano,
Some contrib will not work in php 7.2 or lower, and some will not on PHP 8.1 or higher.
Is there a way to find out which is the optimal PHP version for a...
Posted2 days 19 hours ago by Antony Milenkov (amilenkov) on:
This sounds like a combination of a buggy module and the "wrong" version of PHP. The fact that you are being redirected to the maintenance page may be an indication that your site was put on...
Posted2 days 20 hours ago by Alejandro Cremaschi (argiepiano) on:
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I'm fairly sure, as there are no issues for that here:
https://github.com/backdrop-ops/contrib/issues
If you want to request a Backdrop version, you could do that here, but backports from D8+ versions are much harder than ports from D7 version, so you may not get much traction.
It's also not in our list of projects here:
https://backdropcms.org/modules
It may be that a Backdrop version would be easy to backport to D7 but given the definite end of life announced here, it is very unlikely that anyone would be investing time in a D7 version:
https://www.drupal.org/psa-2023-06-07
I'm guessing, by the fact that you're here on the Backdrop CMS forum, that you have started the journey of considering whether Backdrop is the right destination for your D7 site. If we can help with anything related to your evaluation and/or upgrade to Backdrop CMS, please feel free to ask here, in our chat channel (https://backdrop.zulipchat.com/#all_messages), or in our weekly Office Hours sessions (see the top of the sidebar for the link)