Drupal creator Dries Buytaert with lots of reason to celebrate:

On January 15, 2001, exactly 20 years ago, I released Drupal 1.0.0 into the world. I was a 22 years old, and just finished college. At the time, I had no idea that Drupal would someday power 1 in 35 websites, and impact so many people globally.

Quite the accomplishment. Congrats to Dries and the entire Drupal community!

In this post, he also shares why he’s still working on the project and details 3 birthday wishes for Drupal:

1. Never stop evolving
2. Continue our growing focus on ease-of-use
3. Economic systems to sustain and scale Open Source

Those sound like noble wishes to me. 💯

After nearly two years of development, we are proud to announce the release of the first alpha version of the Drupal 7.x family. This alpha includes a tremendous number of new features and new under-the-hood improvements for both users and developers.

What’s new, what’s changed?

• Revamped User Interface
• Custom Fields
• Image Handling
• Update Manager
• Front-end “under-the-hood” improvements
• Back-end “under-the-hood” improvements

[Mirror on GitHub] [Official Release] [Homepage]