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At the Crossroads of PHP
Across the PHP ecosystem, a hard conversation is beginning to take shape. In a recent opinion piece, Ashraf Abed challenges four major open-source communities—Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and Mautic—to confront a shared reality: slower growth, tighter …
Architecture Before Alchemy
Every technology cycle has its buzzwords. This one has AI stamped on every roadmap, budget request, and vendor pitch deck. As Nitish Chopra argues, the rush to “integrate AI” into content management systems feels less like strategy and more like panic. …
What Keeps You Invested in Drupal?
In the Drupal lifecycle, investment is rarely about the "new." It is about the enduring. While the broader tech landscape often chases the friction of constant disruption, what keeps this community anchored in 2026 is a different kind of momentum: the …
When Foundations Are Ignored
Open source is not fading because it no longer works. It is losing ground because the economic and political systems around it are under strain. When recent market data is viewed alongside developments within public institutions, a clearer, more …
How Drupal Starts Now
Five years after the idea first surfaced, Drupal CMS 2.0 has arrived, with a clear focus on the early experience. Released on 28 January 2026, the update introduces real-time page editing via Drupal Canvas , a templating system with sector-specific …
Dependency, Not Geography, is the Risk!
Europe’s push for digital sovereignty is gaining momentum, but much of the conversation remains superficial. Drawing on the recent analysis by Dries Buytaert , founder of Drupal, the real issue is not whether governments use European or non-European …
Getting Set for More
With 2026 underway, Drupal core has finalised the platform requirements for its next major release, Drupal 12, setting a clear technical direction. The minimum requirements now include PHP 8.5 and recent stable versions of key databases—MySQL 8.0, MariaDB …
Filtering Signal from AI Noise
AI is moving quickly into the Drupal ecosystem, but the conversation around it has often been fragmented and uneven in quality. Drupal AI TV, launched by the Drupal AI Initiative, responds to this by focusing less on promotion and more on consolidation. …
Drupal at Twenty-Five
As we begin 2026 with Volume 4, Issue 1 of Editor’s Pick , our weekly newsletter, we return with a fresh dispatch of Drupal news, community highlights, and contributor updates. With each edition, we continue to focus on amplifying contributions and …
A Year on The Record
Dear Readers, This issue marks the conclusion of Volume 3 of Editor’s Pick and the final newsletter of the year. As we close 2025, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to everyone who has followed The DropTimes, engaged with our work, and …

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