Drupal GovCon 2026 is accepting session proposals for its free in-person conference at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 11 to 13 August 2026. The call for speakers closes at 23:59 EDT on 26 June 2026, giving prospective speakers a limited window to submit sessions for an event focused on Drupal in government, public-sector technology, and related work across nonprofit, education, and private-sector teams. ...more

Acquia and Esinergia will host “La Nueva Experiencia Digital Impulsada por IA” in Santiago, Chile, on 12 June 2026. The small-format session is scheduled for 08:30 to 12:30 CLT at Barcelona 2077, piso 5, with participation limited to 20 people. Esinergia’s LinkedIn post lists speakers from RedSalud, Esinergia, and Acquia, but the public material does not provide technical implementation details or independently verifiable performance metrics. ...more

A11yTalks will host “The Myth of the Difficult User” on 24 June 2026 at 12:00 EDT. Presented by Angela Fowler, the session will examine how users who struggle with products or processes can reveal accessibility and usability barriers before those issues affect a wider audience. The talk will reframe these users as useful signals for improving design, systems, and service delivery. ...more

Drupal.org has advised sites to uninstall the Composer and Brute force attack protection contributed projects after two critical advisories marked them unsupported on 10 June 2026. Both advisories state that known security issues remain unfixed by the maintainers and list all released versions as affected. Drupal.org clarifies that the Composer advisory concerns a Drupal contributed project that uses Composer, not the Composer dependency manager itself. ...more

The European Commission’s EU Open Source Strategy places open technologies within Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda, with attention to procurement, public-sector infrastructure, maintenance, skills, and critical technology areas. The document does not endorse specific platforms, but its emphasis on interoperability, reusable public digital assets, reduced vendor lock-in, and open standards is relevant to Drupal and other open-source systems used in institutional digital services. ...more

Euro-Office has reached its first stable release as a web-based office suite for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs. The project is positioned for integration into partner collaboration platforms, including Nextcloud, while the licensing dispute with ONLYOFFICE remains unresolved in public. ...more

EvolveDigital Montréal26 will bring digital practitioners to Montreal on 12 June 2026 for a bilingual summit on practical delivery across AI, accessibility, Drupal, WordPress, design, and strategy. Ahead of the event, John Doyle of Digital Polygon and Sébastien Lemieux of Evolving Web spoke with The DropTimes about governed AI workflows, platform change, CMS adoption, and the delivery choices that shape production systems. ...more

Purple PHP SDK 0.1.0 introduces a Composer-first framework for adding AI capabilities to existing PHP applications. The release includes smart functions, chat sessions, schema-validated tool contracts, looping agents, policy controls, audit tooling, and optional provider integrations, while keeping native extensions, sidecar services, and cloud-specific dependencies outside the default installation. ...more