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Edward Daniel Narkiewicz on Why AI Gets USWDS Right but Drupal Wrong

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How Drupal's Context Control Center Feeds Brand Voice and Site Rules to AI Agents

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Drupal and the Missing Photographer

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NEDCamp 2026 Speakers Examine AI, Canvas and Drupal’s Future

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Building Drupal Canvas Code Components with React and Tailwind CSS

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Drupal CMS Multilingual Setup: Enabling the Recipe and Translation

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Cheppers Pairs Custom Drupal Design Systems with AI Page Generation

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Drupal CMS Strategy 2.0 Prioritises Agencies and Professional Developers

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Policy & Governance

IONOS Wins Nextcloud School Cloud Contract Worth Up to €67.5 Million

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Six German states can procure a Nextcloud-based school workspace under a €67.5 million ceiling, but individual authorities are not required to adopt it. ...more

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Free Software

Tag1's Goose 0.19 Adds Live Dashboard and Automated Performance Checks

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Performance regressions can now trigger a failed build instead of going unnoticed until deployment. A major reduction in test-runner memory use also changes the resources needed to simulate heavy traffic. ...more

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Drupal Releases Three Core Patches With Symfony Security Fixes

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The dependency changes vary across Drupal branches, and sites using temporary Composer workarounds may need additional checks before updating. ...more

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Government Summit Speakers Call for Shared Investment in Open Source

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A public contract can finance a new government website while leaving the software beneath it underfunded. That gap raises questions about who should pay for future fixes and improvements. ...more

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Event

Drupal Events This Week 9–15 November 2026

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From AI training and accessibility sessions to community governance and local meetups, Drupal practitioners have several opportunities to connect and learn this week. ...more

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NVIDIA Adds Open-Source Auto Ontology to AI Agent Toolkit

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An AI agent can generate valid SQL and still return the wrong business answer. NVIDIA's Auto Ontology addresses how agents interpret enterprise data, although its definitions still require human review. ...more

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Building Drupal Canvas Code Components with React and Tailwind CSS

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An interactive pricing calculator demonstrates how front-end developers can build a component locally and give Drupal editors control over its settings. ...more

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Drupal Cuts Minor-Release Security Support to Eight Months Amid Funding Strain

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Organizations staying on a previous Drupal minor release will have roughly two months after its successor arrives before security coverage ends. The tighter window comes as maintainers confront rising vulnerability reports and shrinking release-management funding. ...more

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