Backdrop CMS: past and future

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Backdrop claims a strict four-month release cadence (13 releases since 1.0) and ships practical features: a compatibility layer to ease Drupal 7 upgrades, a built-in layout system and Views in core, GitHub-based packaging/webhook distribution, and background fetching to avoid slow cache regenerations. The project adds self-update support, a module browser, and telemetry planning, hosts about 350 contributed modules with ~64 moved into core, and targets small sites, nonprofits and low-budget hosts.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 9:22Design Work
3. 12:34Drupal compatibility layer
4. 14:20Configuration Management System
5. 19:30Backdrop 1.3 Background fetch for faster page cache
6. 26:07Backdrop 1.4 Project installer (before)
7. 38:52Backdrop 1.10 Scheduled publishing
8. 39:37Backdrop 1.11 New Color module UI, Basis colorized
9. 40:09Backdrop 1.11 Image Browser

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