Drupal 11.2.0 Released with Performance and API Upgrades

Drupal 11.2.0 landed just hours ago with a suite of major enhancements designed to boost developer productivity and site performance. Site and extension installs now complete three to four times faster thanks to optimized container rebuilding and a revamped installer that cuts a 60-module Drush run to under six seconds.

Object-oriented hook support is fully implemented. Developers can eliminate .module files by applying RemoveHook, ReOrderHook and Hook('preprocess') attributes directly on classes in the Hook namespace. Core now generates JSON Schemas for every content entity type, improving API client validation out of the box.

Front-end teams gain native variant support for Single-Directory Components with custom titles and descriptions. The image toolkit adds AVIF conversion with automatic WebP fallback when server support is absent. Conditional CSS loading reduces Drupal’s default stylesheet from roughly 7 KB to 1 KB, cutting bandwidth needs and speeding page rendering.

Navigation updates enable built-in top-bar functionality and add overview links for parent menu items. Composer recipes now unpack dependencies directly into project composer.json and remove the recipe package after bootstrap. Render cache efficiency climbs with fewer cache-tag invalidations and optimized placeholder processing, yielding smaller cache entries, higher hit rates and fewer backend round trips.

Core leadership team includes Emma Horrell and Cristina Chumillas as UX managers, Griffyn Heels as provisional Core Leadership Team Facilitator, general committers Juraj Nemec, Drew Webber and Pierre Dureau, and subsystem maintainers Nic Laflin, Lee Rowlands, Adam Bramley, Jean Valverde, Mark Conroy and Brad Jones. Mentoring coordination is handled by James Shields, with Mauricio Dinarte, AmyJune Hineline and Tara King transitioning out.

Drupal 10.5.0 is released under a six-month maintenance-minor schedule with support through December 2026. For full release notes, upgrade guidance and contributor resources, visit https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-11-2-0