Governance, infrastructure funding, and release maintenance define this week’s Editor’s Pick as the Drupal Association keeps self-nominations open for its 2026 At-Large Board Election and introduces the Drupal Sustaining Members Program. The updates connect elected representation, recurring support for shared project infrastructure, security remediation, and final testing for Drupal 11.4.0-rc2.
The election will fill one community-elected seat on the Drupal Association Board. The seat opens as Alejandro Moreno completes their 2024–2026 term. Candidates must self-nominate, and nominations close on 30 June 2026 at 23:59 UTC.
Candidates will be announced on 7 July 2026. The Get to Know the Candidates period runs from 7 July to 21 July 2026, followed by voting from 22 July 2026 at 00:00 UTC to 14 August 2026 at 23:59 UTC. The new board member will be announced on 26 August 2026.
Voting eligibility depends on individual Drupal Association membership. Members must have an active membership by 21 July 2026 at 00:00 UTC, at least 24 hours before voting opens. The schedule gives prospective candidates and voters clear deadlines for participation before the election enters its voting phase.
The Drupal Sustaining Members Program creates a recurring funding path for organisations that depend on Drupal. The association says contributions support Drupal.org, code repositories, software packaging and distribution, the Composer package endpoint, issue tracking, contribution workflows, continuous integration and testing, Automated Updates, Project Browser infrastructure, and security response systems. The programme frames shared infrastructure as an operational responsibility rather than an incidental benefit of open-source use.
The programme follows Acquia’s Fair Trade Initiative, which directs 2% of eligible Acquia partner Drupal deals to the Drupal Association. Together, the two efforts point to a more predictable funding model for infrastructure used across the Drupal ecosystem.
Maintainers should also review Drupal security advisories published on 17 June 2026. The Drupal core advisories cover improper validation, server-side request forgery, cache poisoning and open redirect, a gadget chain, and PHP object injection. Contributed project advisories were also published for Plotly.js Graphing, Flag attendance field, and Formatter Field.
Drupal 11.4.0-rc2 is available for final testing ahead of the Drupal 11.4.0 stable release window. Release candidates are not supported for production sites, but they allow developers, maintainers, translators, and site builders to test compatibility before the stable release. Sites using Media oEmbed URL discovery may also need to review media_oembed_discovery_trusted_host_patterns in settings.php.
Drupal 11.4.x will receive security support until June 2027. Drupal 11.3.x will continue to receive security support until December 2026. Those support windows give site owners a near-term basis for upgrade and maintenance planning.
The DropTimes also held its June Open Townhall as part of its monthly community coordination format. The session covered editorial updates, contributor coordination, community feedback, and coverage planning. It reflects TDT’s continuing effort to align editorial priorities with Drupal community activity and reader input.
Upcoming Drupal events include DrupalCamp Tokyo 2026 on 27 June 2026 in Tokyo, DrupalCamp Kortrijk 2026 from 29 June to 30 June 2026 in Kortrijk, Drupal Camp Asheville 2026 from 10 July to 12 July 2026 in Asheville, and Decoupled Days 2026 from 6 August to 7 August 2026 in Montréal.
The week’s updates place governance, funding, security, release readiness, editorial coordination, and community participation in the same frame. Community members considering board service can review the election process before nominations close. Organisations that rely on Drupal can assess whether recurring infrastructure support fits their open source contribution model.
Additional developments from across the Drupal ecosystem were published during the week. Readers can follow The Drop Times on LinkedIn, Twitter, Bluesky, and Facebook for ongoing updates. The publication is also active on Drupal Slack in the #thedroptimes channel.
Allen Jason
Junior sub-editor
The Drop Times
