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Event

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Shared Public-Sector Platforms Shape Big Blue Door’s DrupalCon Rotterdam Focus

Big Blue Door’s Rotterdam responses point to a question already being tested in councils and healthcare: how far can shared Drupal platforms be reused across organisations with different services, editorial practices, and governance requirements?

Discover Drupal

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Drupal 12 Beta Release Week Ends Without 12.0.0-beta1

Maintainers still lack the beta baseline expected for Drupal 12 compatibility work, while the later release calendar remains unchanged.

Discover Drupal

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Native Observability 2.0.0 Measures Its Own Performance Cost

Discover Drupal

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Canvas 1.11 Replaces Global Regions with Full-Page Templates

Opinion

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Is There a Future for Drupal in the AI World?

Event

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TDT September Open Townhall Scheduled for 22 September 2026

Artificial Intelligence: News & Updates

Drupal.org Blog Links Content Governance to AI Agent Readiness

03 September 2026
Drupal-Code-Query Adds Tools for Patch-Heavy Drupal Upgrades

03 September 2026
Drupal AI 1.4.7 and 1.3.12 Fix Agent Memory and Automator Defects

01 September 2026
Drupal Code Query Adds MCP Server for Core and Contrib Analysis

01 September 2026
AI Metering 1.0 Adds Cost Tracking and Quota Controls to Drupal AI

31 August 2026
Symfony Establishes Four-Person Core Team for Symfony AI

26 August 2026

Drupal CMS: News and Updates

Cheppers Pairs Custom Drupal Design Systems with AI Page Generation

18 August 2026
Drupal CMS Strategy 2.0 Prioritises Agencies and Professional Developers

17 July 2026
Acquia Guide Compares Drupal Site Templates Marketplace Options

10 July 2026
Drupal CMS 2.1 Adds Site Templates to Speed Website Setup

09 June 2026
Dries Buytaert Highlights Drupal CMS as a Shift in Drupal’s Usability Strategy

25 May 2026
Dominique De Cooman Proposes Athena Milestone for Drupal AI Initiative

13 May 2026

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Fifteen of 28 Drupal Core Maintainer Vacancies From 2025 Remain Unassigned

“Druxt Opens JSON API Control.” “Admins Can Choose Which Drupal Configuration Resources Are Exposed.”

Druxt 1.3.x Makes JSON:API Resource List Configurable

Entity Adapter Brings Interface-Based Domain Logic to Drupal 11

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Drupal Security Team Warns of Critical Contributed Module Security Release on 23 September

“DrupalCamp Spain Extends CFP.” “Speaker Proposals Open Through 27 September.” “19 to 21 November 2026. Madrid.”

DrupalCamp Spain 2026 Extends Call for Papers Deadline to 27 September

Compound Field Alpha Brings Composable Fields to Drupal 11

Interviews

The AI Guy from QED42: Alphons Jaimon in Talks with TDT

The AI Guy from QED42: Alphons Jaimon in Talks with TDT

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Matthew Saunders Calls for Open-Source Funding to Move From Values to Budgets

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Mike Gifford: Accessibility Must Move Upstream in Public-Sector Open Source

Benji Fisher on Drupal Security, Usability, and Focusing on the Basics

Robert Menetray Builds DruScan to Simplify Drupal Audits

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Randy Kolenko on Maestro and Drupal’s Emerging Orchestration Work

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22 September 2026
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22 September 2026
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21 September 2026

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15 September 2026
Vortex 1.41.0 Lumen Reworks Drupal Project Tooling

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Drupal Community

Fifteen of 28 Drupal Core Maintainer Vacancies From 2025 Remain Unassigned

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2026 Drupal Business Survey Opens for Agency and Service Provider Leaders

25 August 2026

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PHP 8.6 Reaches Final Beta as Drupal 12 Compatibility Testing Continues

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Earlier PHP 8.6 builds have already exposed Drupal deprecations and dependency warnings. The final beta gives maintainers another checkpoint before the runtime moves into release candidates. ...more

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LocalGov Drupal Show & Tell Sets Five Lightning Sessions

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Council teams and suppliers are bringing recent LocalGov Drupal work into a fast show-and-tell format. Each speaker gets no more than seven minutes to demonstrate what they have been working on. ...more

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Policy & Governance

EU Procurement Proposal Adds Open-Source and Lock-In Provisions

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Open-source licensing answers only one part of the procurement question. The draft shifts attention to who controls the service, where dependencies sit and whether another supplier can keep the system running. ...more

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Ashraf Abed to Demonstrate Drupito at Bluefly Town Hall

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What changes when a Drupal site build can become a reusable product instead of a one-off project? The session offers a live look at a marketplace model built around that idea. ...more

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Security

Chrome 153 Starts Two-Week Release Cycle with 230 Security Fixes and an Exploited V8 Flaw

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Drupal teams now have a shorter interval between major Chrome milestones to catch interface and JavaScript regressions before the supported browser window advances. ...more

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Standards & Compliance

EU Cyber Resilience Act Reporting Rules Take Effect for Manufacturers

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An upstream security advisory does not automatically trigger CRA reporting. For manufacturers in scope, the decisive question is whether an actively exploited flaw affects their own product, and if it does, a 24-hour reporting clock can start. ...more

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Drupal Events This Week: 14 – 20 September 2026

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Community safety and the risks surrounding public AI tools are on the agenda for online sessions taking place this week. ...more

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Policy & Governance

Capgemini Survey Finds Only 14% of Large Organisations Report Full Technology Dependency Visibility

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Technology choice depends on more than having alternative products available. Organisations also need to know what they depend on and whether critical services can actually move when conditions change. ...more

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