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Drupal 11 as the Governance Layer for an Open Health Platform

A complex public healthcare platform can put Drupal at the centre of governance without making it responsible for identity, workflows, messaging, observability or the frontend.

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Zoocha Puts Contribution at Centre of DrupalCon Rotterdam Plans

What should an agency return to the open-source ecosystem it relies on? Zoocha’s answer connects community investment with harder questions about AI accountability and Drupal’s ability to explain its value beyond familiar audiences.

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Shared Public-Sector Platforms Shape Big Blue Door’s DrupalCon Rotterdam Focus

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Drupal 12 Beta Release Week Ends Without 12.0.0-beta1

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Native Observability 2.0.0 Measures Its Own Performance Cost

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Canvas 1.11 Replaces Global Regions with Full-Page Templates

Artificial Intelligence: News & Updates

Drupal.org Blog Links Content Governance to AI Agent Readiness

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Drupal-Code-Query Adds Tools for Patch-Heavy Drupal Upgrades

03 September 2026
Drupal AI 1.4.7 and 1.3.12 Fix Agent Memory and Automator Defects

01 September 2026
Drupal Code Query Adds MCP Server for Core and Contrib Analysis

01 September 2026
AI Metering 1.0 Adds Cost Tracking and Quota Controls to Drupal AI

31 August 2026
Symfony Establishes Four-Person Core Team for Symfony AI

26 August 2026

Drupal CMS: News and Updates

Cheppers Pairs Custom Drupal Design Systems with AI Page Generation

18 August 2026
Drupal CMS Strategy 2.0 Prioritises Agencies and Professional Developers

17 July 2026
Acquia Guide Compares Drupal Site Templates Marketplace Options

10 July 2026
Drupal CMS 2.1 Adds Site Templates to Speed Website Setup

09 June 2026
Dries Buytaert Highlights Drupal CMS as a Shift in Drupal’s Usability Strategy

25 May 2026
Dominique De Cooman Proposes Athena Milestone for Drupal AI Initiative

13 May 2026

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Drupal Release Digest: AI Fixes, Stripe Payment Methods and Microsite Aliases

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TDT September Townhall Discusses Drupal Jobs, AI Visibility and Community Participation

OpenSSF Commitment Backs Enterprise Funding for Public Package Registries

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Dev AI Summit at DrupalCon Rotterdam Focuses on Production AI Workflows

Fifteen of 28 Drupal Core Maintainer Vacancies From 2025 Remain Unassigned

“Druxt Opens JSON API Control.” “Admins Can Choose Which Drupal Configuration Resources Are Exposed.”

Druxt 1.3.x Makes JSON:API Resource List Configurable

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The AI Guy from QED42: Alphons Jaimon in Talks with TDT

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Matthew Saunders Calls for Open-Source Funding to Move From Values to Budgets

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Mike Gifford: Accessibility Must Move Upstream in Public-Sector Open Source

Benji Fisher on Drupal Security, Usability, and Focusing on the Basics

Robert Menetray Builds DruScan to Simplify Drupal Audits

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Randy Kolenko on Maestro and Drupal’s Emerging Orchestration Work

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Vortex 1.41.0 Lumen Reworks Drupal Project Tooling

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Drupal Community

Fifteen of 28 Drupal Core Maintainer Vacancies From 2025 Remain Unassigned

22 September 2026
Drupal Association Seeks Input for First Global Ecosystem Retrospective

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31 August 2026
2026 Drupal Business Survey Opens for Agency and Service Provider Leaders

25 August 2026

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Drupal Core Security Update Fixes CKEditor XSS in Content Editing Workflow

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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

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Researcher Says Claude Found and Validated Critical Drupal SQL Injection in About Ten Minutes

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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

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Dries Buytaert Proposes 60-Second Procurement Test for Open Source Vendors

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

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Event

DrupalSouth Seeks Candidates for 2026 Steering Committee

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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

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PHP

PHP 8.6 Reaches Final Beta as Drupal 12 Compatibility Testing Continues

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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

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LocalGov Drupal Show & Tell Sets Five Lightning Sessions

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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

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Policy & Governance

EU Procurement Proposal Adds Open-Source and Lock-In Provisions

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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

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Ashraf Abed to Demonstrate Drupito at Bluefly Town Hall

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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

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