Drupal CRM Beta 14 Adds Contact Field Controls and Media Updates

Drupal CRM 1.0.0-beta14 was released on 11 October 2026 with five changes covering contact methods, media references and demonstration content. The release notes list two features and three tasks completed since beta13, published on 17 September.

The Drupal CRM project manages contacts, contact methods and relationships through Drupal entities. Beta14 adds an option to make contact-method fields required and addresses an issue in which newly created custom contact methods could be left without a parent-contact reference. These changes matter to sites collecting structured address, email or telephone information and linking it to the correct contact.

The remaining changes cover media and starter data. An update involving the Primary Entity Reference field adjusts media-related configuration. The release also stops shipping relationship entities as default content and adds SimplyTest.me demo content, making it easier to explore CRM without first building a representative dataset. The release notes do not describe the media change in enough detail to establish every resulting editor-facing behaviour.

Project maintainer Steve Ayers said in an 11 October LinkedIn post that the team aims to reach its first release candidate by the end of 2026 or early 2027. That is a target, not an announced release date. The project's release-candidate plan sets out further work before that milestone.

Beta14 declares compatibility with Drupal 11.1 and later 11.x releases, as well as Drupal 12. The project page cautions that breaking changes can still occur during beta development, although maintainers intend to provide upgrade paths. Drupal.org lists no supported stable CRM release, and the project's security advisory coverage applies to stable releases, not this beta.