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DrupalCamp Poland 2026 Speakers on What’s Changing in Drupal

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.

Event

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Drupal GovCon 2026: From Site Building to AI Orchestration

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.

Policy & Governance

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Public-Sector Drupal Scale Puts Upstream Funding in Focus

Standards & Compliance

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Twig Coding Standards Job for Contributed Projects Remains Disabled Until Drupal 11.5

Discover Drupal

3 min read

Drupal 12.0.0-alpha1 Opens Contributed Project Compatibility Testing

interview

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Paulo Maia Carvalho on DrupalClaw and the Boundaries of Agent-First Drupal Development

Artificial Intelligence: News & Updates

Drupal.org Blog Links Content Governance to AI Agent Readiness

03 September 2026
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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DrupalCon Orlando 2027 Early Bird Opens at $650 as Ticket Prices Rise

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Smart Image Optimizer Adds WebP and AVIF Conversion for Drupal

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Harvard Continues Autumn Drupal Training as Survey Highlights Site-Builder Complexity

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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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Dries Buytaert Frames Open Source as a Cost-Allocation System

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A technical design that works well at one scale can become costly as an ecosystem grows. Drupal's update service shows how those costs can fall on a different group from the one that controls the underlying code. ...more

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Drupal Events This Week: 8–14 September 2026

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The week’s Drupal calendar stays in person, with a full conference programme in Poland alongside regional community gatherings in Germany and India. ...more

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Symfony Reprise 1.0.0 Establishes Stable API for Vite and Rsbuild Integration

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Symfony teams evaluating Vite or Rsbuild no longer have to treat Reprise as an experimental integration. Its 1.0 public API now carries Symfony's backwards-compatibility promise. ...more

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LiteLLM Supply-Chain Findings Highlight External Dependencies in Drupal AI Workflows

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Drupal AI integrations can depend on services whose runtimes, build pipelines and credentials sit outside the site's Composer-managed code. The LiteLLM incident shows how that external trust boundary can become part of the security picture. ...more

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DrupalAsia Connect India 2027 Opens Call for Speakers

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Practitioners with original lessons from Drupal projects, design, business, or community work can submit them for consideration across seven programme tracks. ...more

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StepSecurity Says It Tracked 56 Open-Source Supply-Chain Compromises in 12 Months

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The incidents put familiar build-time assumptions under scrutiny for Drupal teams that rely on Composer and automated CI. ...more

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GovCMS Makes Rules as Code Available in Production

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Agencies can now connect existing GovCMS sites with machine-executable policy rules while maintaining and versioning those rules separately from the front-end interface. ...more

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Your Client Is Not a Ticket

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A perfectly completed ticket can still solve the wrong problem. Tom Hollevoet argues that better Drupal delivery begins with understanding the need behind the request. ...more

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