!!! note
Drush 9 only supports one install method. It requires that your Drupal 8 site be built with Composer and Drush be listed as a dependency.
See the [Drush 8 docs](http://docs.drush.org/en/8.x) for installing prior versions of Drush.
- It is recommended that Drupal 8 sites be built using Composer, with Drush listed as a dependency. That project already includes Drush in its composer.json. If your Composer project doesn't yet depend on Drush, run
composer require drush/drush
to add it. - To be able to call
drush
from anywhere, install the Drush Launcher. That is a small program which listens on your $PATH and hands control to a site-local Drush that is in the /vendor directory of your Composer project. If you skip this step, run Drush from Drupal root via../vendor/bin/drush
. In that case Drush's bash integration and custom prompt won't work. - Run
drush init
. This edits ~/.bashrc so that Drush's custom prompt and bash integration are active. - See Usage for details on using Drush.
- To use a non-default PHP, edit ~/.bashrc so that the desired PHP is in front of your $PATH. If that is not desirable, you can change your PATH for just one request:
PATH=/path/to/php:$PATH
drush status ...`
!!! note
Drush 9 cannot run commandfiles from Drush 8 and below (e.g. example.drush.inc). See our [guide on porting commandfiles](https://weitzman.github.io/blog/port-to-drush9). Also note that alias and config files use a new .yml format in Drush 9.
Drush Version | Drush Branch | PHP | Compatible Drupal versions | Code Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Drush 9 | master | 5.6+ | D8.4+ | |
Drush 8 | 8.x | 5.4.5+ | D6, D7, D8.3- | |
Drush 7 | 7.x | 5.3.0+ | D6, D7 | Unsupported |
Drush 6 | 6.x | 5.3.0+ | D6, D7 | Unsupported |
Drush 5 | 5.x | 5.2.0+ | D6, D7 | Unsupported |