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Change records document changes to Backdrop CMS APIs that might affect contrib developers or people updating Drupal 7 sites to Backdrop CMS.

Database configuration can now be stored in a simple array
Nov, 11 2024
hook_layout_info() renamed to hook_layout_template_info()
Nov, 9 2024
Fast Token Browser has now replaced the Core token browser
Oct, 30 2024
Theme Suggestion order for Nodes, Users, and Terms Updated
Aug, 18 2024
Image Fields Now Support SVG Image Uploads
May, 15 2024
Swappable config storage
May, 15 2024
New Icon API
May, 15 2024
backdrop_http_request() now strips Cookie and Authorization headers on HTTP downgrade or HTTP host change
May, 15 2024
backdrop_http_request() now respects HTTP 429 "Too Many Requests" response code
May, 13 2024
User password reset links using user_pass_rehash() now include account email value
Apr, 28 2024
CKEditor 4 to CKEditor 5 Upgrade Changes
Jan, 15 2024
Internet Explorer Conditional Comments Deprecated (browsers property)
Jan, 15 2024
New API to allow for ARIA live regions for announcing UI changes aurally.
Jan, 4 2024
Removed unused menu settings page for setting the main and secondary menus, and related functions and settings.
Jan, 4 2024
Backdrop will now discover <theme>.settings.json configuration files in a theme config folder
Jan, 4 2024
Image toolkits should provide image_TOOLKIT_supported_extensions() callback
Apr, 30 2023
The "position" key has been removed from hook_menu()
Mar, 25 2023
Core installation profiles moved to the /core/profiles directory
Feb, 25 2023
File::access() and file_access() now return the same results
Jan, 15 2023
User roles now have descriptions (Role Help module in core)
Dec, 28 2022
hook_pathauto() replaced by hook_path_info()
Nov, 10 2022
File::uri() Now Returns Path to File Entity Page, Not the File Path
Sep, 2 2022
hook_menu() defaults to putting menu items in an internal 'hidden' menu
Jun, 25 2022
Entity Reference now included in Core
May, 19 2022
Generic Entity view() and buildContent() methods and functions added
Dec, 30 2021
New Form API property: "#required_message"
Dec, 1 2021
theme('item_list') has a new 'empty' variable
Nov, 30 2021
views_ui_build_form_url() renamed to views_ui_build_form_path()
Oct, 21 2021
A new Form API details element has been added
Sep, 15 2021
theme_file_type_overview() deprecated in favor of theme_label_machine_name()
Sep, 15 2021
Functions theme_radios() and theme_checkboxes() have been removed.
Aug, 30 2021
Permissions-Policy header removed
Aug, 10 2021
backdrop_add_css() can now accept attributes.
May, 15 2021
backdrop_http_request() can now accept $options['data'] as an array
May, 15 2021
User module's flood control provides better logging, and adds hook_user_flood_control()
Apr, 9 2021
New optional parameter $native_names in function language_list().
Mar, 24 2021
system_redirect_deprecated_page() should be used for deprecated paths
Mar, 13 2021
New parameter $langcode added to menu_tree_all_data()
Jan, 14 2021
html.tpl.php removed
Dec, 24 2020
Any config value can be overridden via settings.php
Jun, 18 2020
Entity caching added to core
May, 3 2020
IP address blocking removed from core
Apr, 26 2020
Modules (or Drupal 7 module-equivalent features) added to core in v 1.0.0
Apr, 26 2020
New date and time form elements: html_date, html_time, and html_datetime
Jan, 1 2020
entity_create_stub_entity() removed from core
Jan, 1 2020
New setting for trusted hostname configuration (optional but highly recommended)
Sep, 16 2019
token_clear_cache() replaed with token_cache_clear()
Sep, 5 2019
token_get_entity_mapping() replaced by info from entity_get_info()
Sep, 4 2019
File access functions have been renamed from file_entity module in Drupal 7
Sep, 2 2019
image_style_path_token() does not exist in Backdrop
Aug, 24 2019
The category system has been removed from user edit and user view
Jun, 19 2019
$edit argument removed from hook_user_update/insert/presave()
Jun, 19 2019
taxonomy_term_access() and comment_access() $op "edit" parameter renamed to "update"
May, 1 2019
Image manipulation support removed from Color module
Jun, 6 2018
theme_html_tag() becomes theme_head_tag()
Dec, 26 2017
hook_block_view_alter() Arguments Changed
Sep, 2 2017
Both "uri" and "path" are now allowed in calls to theme('image')
Aug, 20 2017
hook_layout_presave() now takes $layout object instead of $data array
May, 14 2017
Backdrop core is now protected against clickjacking by default (X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN)
May, 11 2017
taxonomy_term_uri() removed, replaced with entity_uri()
Mar, 15 2017
drupal_is_denied() has been removed
Feb, 18 2017
system_get_date_formats() return value has changed
Sep, 3 2016
Maintenance pages no longer use theme-provided regions
Sep, 1 2016
Redirect module now included in Core
Apr, 14 2016
element_validate_number(), element_validate_integer(), and element_validate_integer_positive() replaced with number Form API element type
Jan, 16 2016
Custom Blocks are now stored in configuration and block_custom table removed
Jan, 6 2016
language_list() now takes a second parameter to return an array of strings
Sep, 12 2015
Page title elements now use the class .page-title instead of ID #page-title
Sep, 12 2015
backdrop_get_path() can now find Layouts
Sep, 12 2015
Date, Date Popup, and Date Views modules now included in Core
Sep, 11 2015
Link module now included in Core
Sep, 7 2015
Email module now included in Core
Aug, 27 2015
CKEditor module now included in core
Jul, 31 2015
Variables changed
Jun, 29 2015
hook_library() and hook_library_alter() have been renamed to hook_library_info() and hook_library_info_alter()
Mar, 30 2015
The user_pass_rehash() function now requires the user account ID to be passed in
Mar, 18 2015
Skip calling of hook_boot() and hook_exit() on cached pages
Feb, 19 2015
hook_node_info() removed
Feb, 19 2015
Retrieving date formats has been changed
Feb, 19 2015
date_iso8601() removed
Feb, 19 2015
Image styles converted to CMI, hook_image_default_styles() removed.
Feb, 19 2015
$form['#node_edit_form'] removed
Feb, 19 2015
Placed all theme-related functions in modulename.theme.inc file
Feb, 4 2015
Placed files in consistent locations for all core modules
Feb, 4 2015
Generic sorting function to replace implementations of uasort()
Feb, 4 2015
system_get_date_types() deprecated; use system_get_date_formats()
Feb, 4 2015
format_username() changed to user_format_name()
Jan, 26 2015
Changes to AJAX execution
Jan, 26 2015
theme_dblog_message() has been removed
Jan, 26 2015
file_delete() now takes file ID as parameter, not a file object
Jan, 26 2015
Definitions for top-level custom menus are now configuration
Jan, 26 2015
Renamed the taxonomy functions that returned multiple values
Jan, 26 2015
language_list() is simplified, locale_language_list() is removed
Jan, 17 2015
Modules removed from Backdrop (which were in Drupal 7)
Dec, 12 2014
The mail_system variable has been converted to config
Dec, 7 2014
Entities are now classed objects
Dec, 6 2014
It is now possible to get the last inserted ID from db_merge
Nov, 20 2014
Removed region-specific template suggestions for blocks
Nov, 20 2014
Theme settings converted to CMI
Nov, 20 2014
Update queries now consistently return the number of all rows matched by the query
Nov, 20 2014
Removed the ability for users to select a theme
Nov, 20 2014
Removed the "Navigation" menu
Nov, 20 2014
Remove or consolidate theme functions and templates
Nov, 20 2014
[META] Various other theme system cleanup tasks #196
Nov, 20 2014
Toolbar replaced with Admin Bar
Nov, 20 2014
Converted Field API to CMI
Nov, 20 2014
Converted User roles to CMI
Nov, 20 2014
Converted Vocabularies to CMI
Nov, 20 2014
Converted all variables to CMI
Nov, 20 2014
User entity is now a classed object
Nov, 20 2014
Taxonomy entities are now classed objects
Nov, 20 2014
Node entity is now a classed object
Nov, 20 2014
File entity is now a classed object
Nov, 20 2014
Removed the concept of global theme settings
Nov, 20 2014
Dialog API
Nov, 20 2014
New Layout module: Implements a drag & drop model for building layouts
Nov, 20 2014
Information about tests now in module.tests.info
Nov, 20 2014
The class registry has been replaced with a static class map
Nov, 20 2014
Views added to core
Nov, 20 2014
"drupal" replaced with "backdrop" throughout code
Nov, 20 2014
jQuery updated to 1.11.0
Sep, 14 2014
Removed the theme process layer
Mar, 13 2014
State/Key-Value storage system implemented
Jan, 24 2014
Variable_get, variable_set, and variable_del deprecated by CMI
Jan, 2 2014
Function user_validate_mail() has been removed
Oct, 10 2013