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Event

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PNW Drupal Summit Speakers Take on Live Chat, Accessibility and HTMX

Shared components and live conversations pose challenges beyond the code. Vancouver speakers explain what they plan to demonstrate and test.

Discover Drupal

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Drupal Developer Explains DevDeck's Design as Windows Beta Arrives

A tool that tracks every pull request, pipeline and local site can quickly become another source of noise. DevDeck's developer decided the answer lies in how loudly it speaks, not what it hides.

Security

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Drupal Fixes Two Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws and Three XSS Vulnerabilities

Organization News

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LocalGov Drupal Recognised as a Digital Public Good

Accessibility

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Accessibility Climbs State CIO Agenda as Operational Gaps Persist

Policy & Governance

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European Digital Sovereignty Push Faces Open-Source Governance Gaps

Artificial Intelligence: News & Updates

Drupal AI 1.5.0 Moves Five Submodules Into Standalone Projects

16 October 2026
Two Drupal Contributors to Speak on AI Governance and Provenance at AI Week 2026

14 October 2026
Drupal AI Release Digest: Gemini Embeddings, Mautic Tools and Views Agent Fixes

30 September 2026
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 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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Drupal AI Moves Towards a Leaner Framework

Drupal AI 1.5.0 Moves Five Submodules Into Standalone Projects

Discover Drupal graphic titled "When Code Cleanup Meets the Release Clock" with intersecting blue geometric lines. Explores stricter PHP checks and extensive testing changes ahead of Drupal 12 release restrictions.

Drupal 12 Release Team Plans to Bundle Disruptive Code Changes Ahead of RC1

Discover Drupal graphic titled "The First Step in Translation Happens Inside the Code" with abstract code extraction illustrations. Explains how Drupal identifies translatable strings before localisation.

Drupal Translation Extractor 3 Alpha Fixes Longstanding String Extraction Gaps

Discover Drupal graphic titled "The Hidden Cost of Every Test Run" featuring connected testing environments above a central database server. It highlights reducing repeated database setup in Drupal kernel tests while preserving test isolation.

Drupal Core Resolves 14-Year Kernel Testing Issue With ShareEnvironment

PHP 8.6 RC3 Released as Drupal Compatibility Work Continues

Discover Drupal graphic titled "When the Details Change How a Page Renders" featuring layered webpage layouts. The Drupal Digest highlights unexpected display behaviour caused by Views rows, component slots and field groups.

Drupal Site-Building Updates Cover Drupal 12 Support and Rendering Fixes

Interviews

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

Interview graphic titled “Open Source Needs Budgets, Not Just Values” with text reading “Matthew Saunders on funding, Drupal AI governance, and inclusive contribution.” A portrait of Matthew Saunders appears on the left, with byline text reading “By Allen Jason, Junior Sub-Editor TheDropTimes.”

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

Interview graphic featuring Henadzi Koltun smiling in a blue blazer alongside a small portrait of author Kazima Abbas. Text reads "Building Drupal for the Long Term" and "The real test of sustainable growth is knowing what must never be sacrificed for short-term success."

“Drupal Isn’t About Quick Wins”: Henadzi Koltun on Sustainable Growth

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 interview graphic featuring Gina Plat and Teun van der Vorm, focused on digital sovereignty, dependency mapping, procurement and open source in government.

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

Carlos Ospina: Advocating for Regional Equity and Sustainable Participation in the Drupal Ecosystem

Meet Carlos Ospina — Candidate for the 2025 Drupal Association Board Election

Hero image for “Matthew Saunders on Earning Community Trust,” showing Saunders speaking at a panel beside a laptop and microphones, with the deck “Public metrics for listening, accessible participation, and accountable follow-through.”

Matthew Saunders Makes Community Trust a Focus of Board Candidacy

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Drupal 12 Release Team Plans to Bundle Disruptive Code Changes Ahead of RC1

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Organization News

Mautic 7.2.1 Fixes Campaign Timing, Forms and Plugin Compatibility

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Drupal Community

Drupal Security Team Confirms Four Full-Member Promotions

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Drupal Advocacy Program Brings Public Outreach Into Contribution Credit

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22 September 2026

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Security

OpenAI Includes Open-Source Maintainers in $1 Billion Daybreak Access Commitment

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Resource-constrained maintainers can now seek subsidised cyber access, but OpenAI has not published criteria showing how independent open-source projects will qualify. ...more

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Free Software

DDEV v1.25.4 Adds Database Seeding and Global Configuration

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A known database state can now return automatically when a DDEV project starts with an empty database, removing a repeated restoration step from local Drupal work. ...more

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Standards & Compliance

Twig Coding Standards Job for Contributed Projects Remains Disabled Until Drupal 11.5

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Twig has lacked the automated standards enforcement already available for PHP, JavaScript and CSS. The shared GitLab CI job brings contributed projects closer to the same checks now running in Drupal core. ...more

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Policy & Governance

Public-Sector Drupal Scale Puts Upstream Funding in Focus

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Large government Drupal platforms show how deeply open source can become embedded in public digital infrastructure. The harder question is how to maintain the foundations beneath those platforms when deployment and upstream funding follow different paths. ...more

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Event

Aaron Pacheco to Demonstrate OtterMon AI at Bluefly Town Hall

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For Drupal teams responsible for production systems, the session offers a look at how a former Acquia senior product manager is approaching observability across multiple DevOps tools. ...more

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Security

Drupal Issues 16 Contributed-Project Advisories, Including Five Critical Flaws

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Critical ratings are only part of the triage. Project reach varies sharply, and one advisory requires administrators to clean stored data after updating. ...more

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Drupal Security Advisories Cover Information Disclosure, Access Bypass and Cross-Site Scripting

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Sites that missed the 26 August security batch still have a clear task: identify affected contrib versions and apply the available fixes. ...more

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Blog

Dries Buytaert Frames Open Source as a Cost-Allocation System

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A technical design that works well at one scale can become costly as an ecosystem grows. Drupal's update service shows how those costs can fall on a different group from the one that controls the underlying code. ...more

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