Drupal Ottawa will host its June meetup on 18 June 2026 with a presentation by Steven Stapleton of Coldfront Labs on using htmx to build dynamic web experiences with less JavaScript. The session will be available both in person and online and is aimed at Drupal developers, site builders, students, and others interested in modern front-end development approaches. ...more

Jeroen Spitaels’ Drupal AI Summit NYC session used the EPSO rollout to show how AI search is moving from experiment to governed public-sector infrastructure. The case centred on a retrieval-augmented search layer for EU Careers that answers candidate questions from controlled source content, cites official material, and keeps human contact-centre handling for harder cases. For Drupal teams, the practical point is not the chatbot interface, but the structured content, traceability, staged rollout, and data assurances behind it. ...more

DrupalCamp Tokyo 2026 has published its programme for the event scheduled on 27 June 2026 in Tokyo. The schedule confirms a keynote by James Abrahams, a video message from Dries Buytaert, and sessions covering artificial intelligence, Drupal development practices, open-source governance, security, hosting platforms, and community participation. Organisers expect the event to bring together contributors, agencies, educators, and organisations involved in the Drupal ecosystem. ...more

WordCamp Europe 2026 is set to bring together thousands of contributors, developers, agencies and publishers in Kraków from 4–6 June. The event follows the release of WordPress 7.0 and is expected to feature discussions spanning artificial intelligence, accessibility, security, enterprise publishing and open-source governance. ...more

Salesforce's planned acquisition of Contentful has prompted renewed discussion about digital sovereignty and long-term technology control. In a blog post, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert argues that the deal demonstrates the limits of treating vendor nationality as a sovereignty guarantee, contending that ownership changes can quickly alter the legal and governance frameworks under which software platforms operate. ...more

A forthcoming Drupal AI Learners Club event will test whether modern AI coding agents can assist with one of Drupal's most demanding upgrade scenarios: moving a long-running Drupal 7 site to Drupal 11. Rather than presenting a prepared tutorial, the organisers are positioning the session as a live experiment, allowing attendees to observe how an experienced Drupal contributor works with Anthropic's Claude Dynamic Workflows while navigating migration challenges in real time. ...more

A security update for the Drupal AlternativeCommerce (Basket) project addresses a highly critical vulnerability that could lead to PHP Object Injection and, under certain conditions, arbitrary PHP code execution. The Drupal Security Team assigned the issue CVE-2026-9726, gave it a risk score of 22 out of 25, and recommends upgrading affected sites to Basket 2.1.17. ...more

Community activity during the first week of June includes online Code of Conduct incident response training, two United Kingdom Drupal meetups and an AI practitioner gathering in Pune. The events run from 2 to 6 June 2026 and cover governance, local Drupal discussion, informal networking and applied AI workflows. The week’s schedule reflects both Drupal’s community infrastructure and the growing overlap between open-source practice and AI implementation. ...more