News Roundup

Several Drupal events are lined up this week, including meetups in Lake Constance, the Pacific Time zone, and Pune. LocalGov Drupal Camp 2025 is happening Thursday with a focus on public sector collaboration. Plus, Laracon 2025 is on the radar for PHP developers, taking place later in July.

Promet Source has opened registration for six live Drupal training courses starting July 14. These one- to five-day sessions cover content editing, site building, front-end development, theming, and module development. Courses run through July 17, with costs ranging from $545 to $2,195, and private group training is available on custom dates.

The Drupal AI module 1.1.0 introduces a full agentic framework with function calling and a graphical UI that lets you build and configure AI agents entirely through Drupal’s interface. Via Drupal Forge, developers can spin up a preconfigured site in under five seconds, complete with $1 in AI credits and a free 30-day trial—without writing custom code. Automated provisioning collects basic project details and returns a ready-to-use site link, with an optional DevPanel-powered cloud dev environment, thanks to contributions from Salim Lakhani, Darren Oh, and the DevPanel team.

The DrupalX project has upgraded both its standard and decoupled starter kits to Drupal 11. Drupal XD now integrates better with GraphQL and includes a Next.js frontend. DrupalXS sees improved theme customisation, editorial tools, and layout-building support.

DrupalCon North America 2026 heads to Chicago with major updates. Ticket prices are dropping, and new perks support local camps and volunteers. Summits, trainings, and networking will get a boost, with early registration starting this September.

The Drupal AI Strategic Initiative was featured at the 2025 AI Summit during London Tech Week. Community leaders highlighted its focus on ethical, open-source AI tools for Drupal. They urged companies and contributors to support the project with funding and development time.

Ivan Zugec will host a free livestream on Saturday, June 28 at 12 AM IST to demonstrate how to build charts and data visualizations in Drupal CMS. The session will cover installing the Charts module, embedding custom charts, and generating visualizations with Views. Attendees will also learn to explore chart types and apply customizations using Google Charts and Billboard.js.

Drupal 11.2.0 is now available, bringing faster installation and improved performance. The update introduces object-oriented hook implementations and built-in JSON Schema support. Media handling gets a boost with native AVIF support and WebP fallback.

InfoBeans hosted the June 7 Drupal Pune Meetup, emphasizing support over marketing. The event sparked internal interest, with several team members exploring deeper involvement in the Drupal community. While Drupal isn't core to their business, InfoBeans values open-source collaboration and remains open to future engagement.

James Williams has released a new Drupal module called Autocreate Access. It adds role-based control to the taxonomy autocomplete widget, letting admins restrict term creation by user role. The module respects existing permissions and offers a simple toggle per field.

A new AI webinar series for Drupal has launched, backed by the European Commission. It offers free, hands-on sessions on using AI tools in Drupal, running through October. Topics include installing the AI module, search, no-code agents, and coding custom AI features.

Jim Birch of Kanopi Studios earned his 100th Drupal CMS issue credit by fixing bugs and enhancing platform usability. His milestone contribution released the “AI Chatbot based on Agent system 1.1.0” under the Drupal AI initiative. The project, built with Marcus Johansson and Jürgen Haas, highlights Birch’s commitment to open-source digital experiences.

Greg Boggs of Multnomah County Library has flagged a critical caching bug in the Easy Breadcrumb module that impacts over 86,000 Drupal sites. By adding url.path to the breadcrumb cache context, each unique 404 page spawns its own entry in the dynamic page cache, leading to database bloat and potential performance issues. Developers are invited to review his reproduction steps, propose a patch, and join the discussion on Drupal.org issue #3516169.

CampusDrop is an open-source web platform for higher-education institutions built on Backdrop CMS. Prototype testing began on the Pantheon hosting platform in June 2025 after migrating a University of Colorado Denver site from Drupal 7. The platform offers modular site-building tools, editorial workflows, central service integrations, and multiple authentication options.

Automated Testing Kit delivers a ready-made collection of Drupal-focused end-to-end smoke tests, helper functions, and pre-flight checks for both Cypress and Playwright in a single, easy-to-install package. By shifting testing left, running tests early and often, you can catch bugs before they reach production, reduce costly downtime, and focus more on building new features. The kit’s thorough documentation and demo recipe make it simple to get started on fresh or existing Drupal sites.

Adaptive’s new AX+ toolkit and playbook enhances Drupal’s admin interface by combining popular modules like Admin Toolbar, Layout Builder, Entity Browser with Media Library, Gin Admin Theme, and Permissions by Term with custom drag-and-drop page building, smarter media embedding, and built-in reporting. Its role-based dashboards streamline workflows for editors, marketers, and developers, cutting training time, accelerating content production, and reducing technical support needs.

The Drupal Association is hosting a public webinar on its new AI Initiative this Thursday, June 26 at 17:00 CEST. The session will outline the initiative’s goals, participants, and community involvement. A Q&A will follow, and a recording will be made available afterward.

The selected sessions for DrupalCon Nara have been finalized. Speakers are now receiving confirmation emails. The full session lineup will be announced soon.

Developer Portal of the Dutch Government, Developer.overheid.nl’s API registry is moving to a REST-only model based on OpenAPI Specifications to enhance consistency, tooling support, and long-term maintainability. It will consolidate all REST/JSON, REST/XML, OData, and geoservices under a single REST category, deferring less common protocols like GraphQL, CKAN, Atom, and Socrata until adoption grows. Metadata and lifecycle statuses will be sourced directly from submitted OAS documents and managed via a backend API, and the Municipality of Amsterdam has joined the pilot.

The Drupal CMS team has started building its first real-world site template for SaaS and product-focused businesses. The recipe targets B2B expense-management platforms and includes features like virtual and physical company cards, mobile receipt capture, and role-based approval workflows. The initial MVP provides structured content types, layout components, demo content, and a pricing comparison table, with deeper integrations planned for future phases.

DrupalCon Vienna 2025 is now accepting sponsors. Sponsorships help fund sessions, scholarships, and community programs. Companies gain visibility, hiring access, and a stronger presence in the Drupal ecosystem.

Drupal Mumbai's third meetup is set for June 28 at Iksula Services in Andheri East. Sessions will cover Google API integration and a contribution sprint. The event also includes networking and planning for DrupalCamp Mumbai.

Drupal core is officially adopting the Gin admin theme, replacing Claro as the default interface. The change targets a smoother admin experience by unifying design efforts under one modern theme. Gin is set to be included in Drupal 11.3, expected this December.

The DropTimes has curated a week of Drupal and open source events happening from June 23 to 29, 2025. The lineup includes in-person meetups in Denver, Bern, Granada, Madrid, Mumbai and Kochi, and virtual sessions on accessibility, content workflows and incident response. Attendees can join technical talks on multi-site setups, data visualizations, Google API integration and AI in Drupal, as well as hands-on workshops and networking socials.