Time to upgrade the site to the latest and greatest - Drupal 10
Simon Lindsay
It was time to bite the bullet and upgrade this site to Drupal 10, which went pretty smoothly, but of course, never start this sort of process without a backup.
Drupal has made huge advances with upgradability since Drupal 7. Going from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9 and now to Drupal 10 has been a progressively smoother process.
In the case of this site, it was simply updating composer.json and changing some lines in composer.json like this:
Before: