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DriesNote Targets Drupal's Reputation Gap With Advocacy Credits and Rosetta Sprint Proposal

Technical progress only solves part of Drupal's problem if outside perceptions remain fixed on older versions. Rotterdam shifts attention to who can reach today's capabilities and who hears about them.

Organization News

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Acquia Cuts DrupalCon Booth Spend to Donate $50,000 to Drupal

Acquia deliberately spent less on its Rotterdam booth and made that decision visible. Shawn Perritt then used the DrupalCon stage to challenge sponsors, agencies and competitors to find their own way to give back.

Discover Drupal

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Drupal 12 Will Remove Search, Claro and Olivero from Core

Discover Drupal

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How Public-Sector Work Broadens the Drupal Developer Role

interview

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Gina Plat and Teun van der Vorm: Map Dependencies Before Pursuing Digital Sovereignty

Discover Drupal

5 min read

Drupal 12 Tightens Filename Handling as New Recipe, Workflow and Hosting Tools Arrive

DrupalCon Rotterdam 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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“TRAINING.” “Drupal AI Training With Human Oversight.” “A structured path from secure AI foundations to agents. RAG and local models.” An illustration shows a person interacting with a connected AI workflow interface for search. agents. data and automated processes.

Drupal AI Initiative Names DrupalEasy's AIDE Official Training Program

“DISCOVER DRUPAL.” “Where Drupal Infrastructure Is Shifting Next.” “AWS backed services. infrastructure credits and a changing hosting relationship bring long term funding into focus.” A diagram connects traditional server racks with cloud infrastructure to illustrate the shift in Drupal hosting.

Drupal Association Continues AWS Migration as OSU Open Source Lab Restructures

“PHP.” “Closing the Messaging Gaps.” “Symfony Messenger tackles transaction failures and oversized payloads.” A diagram shows database data moving through secured messaging and an alternate document based route before both reach the message queue.

Symfony 8.2 to Add Transactional Outbox and Claim Check to Messenger

"SECURITY." "Security Fixes Reach The PHP Layer." "Drupal Operators Need To Check More Than Version Numbers." A layered central component connects to a website, database, settings, files, servers, terminal and containers with check marks illustrating dependencies across a Drupal and PHP stack.

PHP 8.2–8.5 Security Releases Fix 11 CVEs Across Drupal-Compatible Runtimes

"EVENT." "When AI Features Have to Work Together." "A Working Site Puts Search, Review, Translation and Governance Into the Same Test." "#Driesnote." "DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026." Connected website panels represent search results, content review and analytics around a central site to show multiple AI features operating together.

Why Drupal AI Built a Full-Site Demo for Rotterdam

"DISCOVER DRUPAL. What 424 Government Drupal Sites Reveal. A Measured Snapshot With Version Signals and Data Gaps." Illustrated government websites connect to a central data grid to show information being collected and compared across many public sector Drupal sites.

Study Measures 424 Drupal Sites Across Federal, State and Territory .gov Domains

Interviews

Hero graphic for The DropTimes interview, featuring a smiling interview subject beside the headline “Govern the Context, Not the Outcome” and a summary about controlling AI context without controlling model output.

Kristen Pol Explains How Drupal’s Context Control Center Governs AI Context

Wide interview cover featuring James Abrahams holding a microphone on the right. The headline reads “James Abrahams on Funding Drupal Without Concentrating Control.” The deck says a broader funding base could support open-source AI, digital sovereignty, and a coordinated strategy across Drupal. The interview is by Allen Jason.

James Abrahams Makes Sustainable Funding a Focus of Board Candidacy

The Drop Times interview hero featuring Paulo Maia Carvalho, creator of DrupalClaw, beside the headline “How Much Drupal Work Should an AI Agent Do?” with a deck about safe delegation, version context, approval gates, and developer review. The image also credits interviewer Kazima Abbas, Sub-Editor at TheDropTimes.

Paulo Maia Carvalho on DrupalClaw and the Boundaries of Agent-First Drupal Development

Sowing Opportunity, Reaping Innovation: George DeMet on the Power of Inclusive Drupal Development

Tim Hestenes Lehnen Delves into 'Fog & Fireflies': A Journey of Magic and Metaphor

Tim Hestenes Lehnen Delves into 'Fog & Fireflies': A Journey of Magic and Metaphor

From Drupal's Roots to Aiven's Branches: Angie Byron's Tech Journey

From Drupal's Roots to Aiven's Branches: Angie Byron's Tech Journey

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Drupal AI Initiative Names DrupalEasy's AIDE Official Training Program

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PHP 8.2–8.5 Security Releases Fix 11 CVEs Across Drupal-Compatible Runtimes

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Why Drupal AI Built a Full-Site Demo for Rotterdam

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Study Measures 424 Drupal Sites Across Federal, State and Territory .gov Domains

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Blog Syndication

Compass Tracing Identifies Components Behind Uncacheable Drupal Pages

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Drupal Association Continues AWS Migration as OSU Open Source Lab Restructures

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Organization News

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Vortex 1.41.0 Lumen Reworks Drupal Project Tooling

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Drupal Community

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2026 Drupal Business Survey Opens for Agency and Service Provider Leaders

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DrupalCon Rotterdam Speakers Put AI, Workflows, and Accessibility Into Practice

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For several DrupalCon Rotterdam sessions, the useful question is not simply whether Drupal teams can automate more. It is where automation should stop, where review should begin, and what people still have to judge for themselves. ...more

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Pantheon to Demo “Outside-In” Drupal AI With Gemini Enterprise in Rotterdam

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What changes when Drupal becomes something an enterprise AI agent can act on, rather than the place where every user must work? Pantheon plans to show that model running end to end in Rotterdam. ...more

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Dropsolid Ties DrupalCon Rotterdam Sponsorship to Governed AI and Shared Infrastructure

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The more consequential part of Dropsolid's Rotterdam presence is not the sponsorship tier. It is the argument that Drupal's content, permissions and workflows can form part of the control layer around AI systems using organisational knowledge. ...more

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Enterprise AI Summit Speakers Preview Governed Drupal AI Cases in Rotterdam

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Putting AI into production raises harder questions than connecting a model to Drupal. Rotterdam speakers focus on context, evidence, controls and human review. ...more

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Policy & Governance

NASCIO State IT Tensions Highlight Governance Questions for Shared Drupal Platforms

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A statewide publishing platform can reduce repeated technical work across public websites, but it also establishes an operating model that can outlast the migration that created it. ...more

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DrupalCon Rotterdam Sessions Connect Marketing and AI Visibility

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Drupal’s marketing challenge now meets a second visibility question: what do ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude surface when people ask about the platform? ...more

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Security

Drupal Security Team Publishes 36 Contributed-Project Advisories, Including Critical Webform RCE

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The September disclosure turns a pre-announced security release into a broader maintenance task across 16 projects. Exposure varies sharply by configuration, so operators need more than the Critical labels to set priorities. ...more

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Zoocha Puts Contribution at Centre of DrupalCon Rotterdam Plans

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What should an agency return to the open-source ecosystem it relies on? Zoocha’s answer connects community investment with harder questions about AI accountability and Drupal’s ability to explain its value beyond familiar audiences. ...more

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