James Shield opens Day 19 of his Advent Calendar with a post featuring Carlos Ospina of Palcera LLC, who delivered a powerful session at DrupalCamp Asheville titled From Fear to Freedom: Mastering Drupal Updates with a Structured Approach. Carlos’ talk walks attendees through the often-daunting process of keeping Drupal sites up to date, offering a clear framework for handling version changes and avoiding upgrade-related stress. From planning updates to dealing with API shifts in custom code, the talk blends best practices, practical tools, and real-world demos that give site maintainers the confidence to update with ease.
Key takeaways include strategies for tracking custom code dependencies, maintaining composer.json files, monitoring…..