Open Source

DrupalSouth Wellington 2026 will take place from 12 to 14 May in Wellington, New Zealand, alongside the Ironstar Community Awards, recognising contributions across the regional Drupal community. Nominations for key categories are open until 17 April 2026. The announcement gives community members time to submit entries and plan participation in the event. ...more

Drupal Mountain Camp will return for its sixth edition from 2 to 4 March 2027 in Davos, Switzerland. The early announcement gives the community time to plan travel, participation, and speaking proposals for the alpine event. Organisers say further details, including calls for speakers and sponsors, will follow. ...more

A new intervention in Europe’s software sovereignty debate argues that Open Source should be treated as a baseline requirement rather than a marginal procurement factor. In a blog post published on 1 April 2026, Dries Buytaert challenges how the European Commission weighs licensing in its Cloud Sovereignty Framework and warns that the same logic could carry into the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act. The argument matters beyond Drupal because it goes to the centre of how long-term software control is defined in EU cloud policy. ...more

Tracking contributions in open source projects can reveal how effort is distributed rather than simply how much is produced. Christian López Espínola’s quarterly report shows how work shifts across Drupal core, Drupal Canvas, and related projects over time. The value lies less in counting output and more in understanding focus and maintaining balance. ...more

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 has opened registration with a reduced Early Bird rate set 20% lower than 2025 prices. Alongside updated pricing, organisers have introduced a more compact event format combining summits, core conference sessions, and community contribution activities. ...more

Jacob Rockowitz has published a detailed account of building a Drupal contributed module using AI coding tools, outlining both the practical gains and the structural failures encountered during development. His experience with Claude Code and later OpenAI Codex highlights how AI-generated implementations can pass tests while failing in real use, requiring deeper testing strategies, revised workflows, and consistent human oversight to produce reliable Drupal code. ...more

As AI-generated code increases, traditional code review practices are being pushed to their limits. A blog post by Ronald te Brake explores how developers may need to move beyond diffs toward understanding intent, context, and attribution in order to maintain trust and quality in AI-assisted workflows. ...more

A reflection by Matthew Tift explores the role of the Quiet Room at DrupalCon, where a simple pause becomes a counterbalance to the event’s intensity. Drawing from moments during DrupalCon Chicago, including a brief reflection led by Dries Buytaert, the piece examines how intentional stillness can reshape attention and experience in fast-moving technical environments. ...more

A contributed module introduces multilingual support to Drupal Canvas by addressing issues that prevent the editor from functioning in language-prefixed environments. Developed by David Palmero Jara, the release resolves problems such as translation loss during autosave, broken editor loading, and missing assets. The module also implements an asymmetric translation model, allowing each language version to be edited independently while maintaining stability across multilingual sites. ...more

Wim Leers examines how strict configuration validation in Drupal has led to an unexpected outcome in AI-assisted development. Using Drupal Canvas as an example, the post shows how validation enables large language models to generate functional code with minimal prompting. It positions validation as a shared interface that improves reliability for both developers and AI systems. ...more

Document Loader 2.0.0 introduces a structured approach to ingesting and normalising documents within Drupal, combining a plugin-driven architecture with AI agent integration. Originally conceived to support AI context management, the module has evolved into a broader ingestion framework capable of handling multiple file formats and external sources. Its release reflects ongoing efforts in the Drupal ecosystem to standardise data intake and enable reusable pipelines for content processing. ...more