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Drupal 12 compatibility comes with an operational requirement for existing Entity Usage sites: moving from 2.x means rebuilding every recorded usage relationship. ...more

The week offers Drupal community members routes into governance training, hands-on development practice, and the start of DrupalCon’s European programme. ...more

Questions, story leads, and feedback on future Drupal coverage are on the agenda for The DropTimes September Open Townhall. ...more

Diagnostic tools can add work while they investigate what a website is doing. Native Observability 2.0.0 now measures that added cost on the Drupal site where it runs instead of asking administrators to rely on a general estimate. ...more

Drupal is building one governed route for compatible external agents rather than separate integrations for each AI platform. OpenAI's new API provides another environment in which that approach can be tested. ...more

A public-sector Drupal owner is putting custom work, editorial autonomy and supplier independence at the centre of its next CMS decision. ...more

Georgia's Drupal-based GovHub shows why cloud-security procurement rules can matter beyond the CMS itself. Hosting and other managed service layers may carry verification requirements of their own. ...more

A misplaced status ring on translated content exposed a deeper problem: Drupal does not store revision parentage directly. ...more

Drupal teams combining AI with ECA now have a stable integration that brings AI operations, model assistance, and provider controls into automated workflows. ...more

Sites on Drupal 10.5.x and Drupal 11.2.x or earlier are outside security coverage, making a move to a supported branch part of the response. ...more

Moving the page shell out of theme-bound regions changes how Canvas can represent and retain full-page layouts across Drupal themes. ...more

A broad Drupal security prompt led Claude from code review to a validated proof of concept in about ten minutes, according to the researcher who reported the vulnerability. ...more

Context Control Center can now send centrally managed context beyond agents, while new selection modes and role-based filtering give Drupal teams finer control over what reaches each AI interaction. ...more

A Drupal core issue opened in 2010 has led to a more explicit way for Views plugins to request routing and plugin-cache work after a View is saved. ...more

Europe's new AI transparency rules require disclosure in specific cases, leaving publishers to determine how those decisions are recorded and shown. A new Drupal module turns that process into an editorial workflow. ...more

Vendor involvement can be difficult to compare when Open Source contribution extends beyond code into documentation, governance, events, support, and funding. ...more

Serving on the committee means taking on year-round responsibility for regional governance, community initiatives, budgets, and event support across Australia and New Zealand. ...more

A temporary sandbox can be someone's first practical encounter with a Drupal project. simplytest.me has been reworked to make that experience more reliable and easier to navigate. ...more

Drupal community members have until 20 September to flag weaknesses, strengths, and external pressures they believe the Association Board should consider before its Rotterdam retreat. ...more

Earlier PHP 8.6 builds have already exposed Drupal deprecations and dependency warnings. The final beta gives maintainers another checkpoint before the runtime moves into release candidates. ...more

Council teams and suppliers are bringing recent LocalGov Drupal work into a fast show-and-tell format. Each speaker gets no more than seven minutes to demonstrate what they have been working on. ...more

Open-source licensing answers only one part of the procurement question. The draft shifts attention to who controls the service, where dependencies sit and whether another supplier can keep the system running. ...more

The name change attaches a new identity to an agency history that reaches back to 2008 and now includes participation in the Drupal AI Initiative. ...more

Drupal is prominent in Acquia's public positioning again. The rebrand accompanies a broader shift from digital experience platform language toward content, governance, and AI agents. ...more

What changes when a Drupal site build can become a reusable product instead of a one-off project? The session offers a live look at a marketplace model built around that idea. ...more

Generating software is becoming easier. Knowing what went into it, whether it can be trusted, and who will maintain it is becoming the harder problem. ...more

Drupal teams now have a shorter interval between major Chrome milestones to catch interface and JavaScript regressions before the supported browser window advances. ...more

An upstream security advisory does not automatically trigger CRA reporting. For manufacturers in scope, the decisive question is whether an actively exploited flaw affects their own product, and if it does, a 24-hour reporting clock can start. ...more

Community safety and the risks surrounding public AI tools are on the agenda for online sessions taking place this week. ...more

Several changes in Lumen can disrupt an otherwise routine upgrade if project-owned state is left untouched. Admin modules, lock files, CI settings, and custom linting rules sit outside what the installer can safely change. ...more

The maintenance update is most relevant to sites with large administrative Views or custom actions that extend VBO. ...more

Technology choice depends on more than having alternative products available. Organisations also need to know what they depend on and whether critical services can actually move when conditions change. ...more

Some of the hardest technology failures arrive without a broken component or a clear error. Two DrupalCamp Poland speakers examine what teams can learn from convincing AI mistakes, system-level performance failures, and automation that still depends on human judgement. ...more

As Drupal's MCP options multiply, MCPIO takes a narrower client-facing approach: two tools handle discovery and execution while Tool API carries the broader action set underneath. ...more

Newcomers to Drupal will have a full day to move from curiosity to building a website. The hands-on programme requires no previous Drupal experience and has limited places. ...more

Sites that rely on long-running workers, layered access models or recipe automation may see different behaviour after updating. ...more

Browser agents can already fill Drupal forms by working through the interface. A new experiment tests what changes when the browser can expose those forms as structured tools instead. ...more

The Ahmedabad meetup puts practical Drupal work at the centre, with project demonstrations, tools, experiments, and discussion replacing formal slide-led sessions. ...more

Updating alone is not enough for every affected site. One module introduces a new permission requirement, while another has no fixed release and should be uninstalled. ...more

Bug reproductions are difficult to hand to coding agents when the workflow depends on a browser and undocumented frontend behaviour. The phpstan-drupal playground now exposes the information those agents need directly. ...more

Registration timing will matter more for Orlando than it did for Chicago. Waiting until the final ticket tier will add $550 to the standard admission price. ...more

Large Drupal media libraries can make format conversion a repetitive maintenance task. A new contributed module handles new uploads and existing JPEG and PNG files through the same Drupal workflow. ...more

Drupal teams are absorbing fast-moving AI work, deeper performance changes, and new expectations around how Drupal expertise is packaged and delivered. Four DrupalCamp Poland speakers tell The DropTimes where they think the practical learning lies. ...more

Centralising a web estate can improve consistency without making the publishing experience simple. Harvard's site-builder research puts that trade-off in measurable terms. ...more

Editors can be allowed to view an unpublished node and still be unable to select it in a reference field. The current proposal would close that access gap without requiring broader bypass permissions. ...more

AI is changing how people build, search, and interact with websites, but not every organisation is moving at the same speed. Chad Capellman argues that Drupal's flexibility may matter more as different generations of the web continue to coexist. ...more

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

The release provides a stable example of assembling an established Drupal product around recipes and site templates rather than a traditional installation profile. ...more

The module already turns prompts into Drupal pages. Its next development direction reaches further upstream, where design tools and tokens could become inputs to the site-building workflow. ...more

Maintainers finally have a tagged Drupal 12 build to put real projects against. Some compatibility work will need another pass, however, because the dependency target is not yet frozen. ...more