We’re excited to share that Drupal CMS 1.0 has officially launched! This new platform is designed to make it easier than ever for marketers and content teams to create amazing digital experiences, all while staying true to Drupal’s open-source roots. Drupal CMS 1.0 is packed with features to make your life easier: Quick setup with smart defaults for common tasks to get you up and running quickly AI tools to speed up implementation Pre-configured features for site search and media management Easy integration with popular marketing tools for SEO, consent management and analytics Automatic upd ..read more

New in Drupal 11.1 The first feature release of Drupal 11 improves the recipe system, introduces support for hooks written as classes, makes Workspaces more flexible and enhances performance. Recipe system improvements The Recipe system allows packages to be configured with dependencies in a repeatable way. Drupal 11.1 now allows recipes to take user input (for example, API keys for remote services). Recipes can now also use configuration actions to add new blocks, enable layout builder for content types, clone configuration entities, and so on. Hooks can be written as classes Drupal's un ..read more

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog. DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 Driesnote presentation Approximately 1,100 Drupal enthusiasts gathered in Barcelona, Spain, last week for DrupalCon Europe. As per tradition, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote, often referred to as the "DriesNote". If you missed it, you can watch the video or download my slides (177 MB). In my keynote, I gave an update on Drupal Starshot, an ambitious initiative we launched at DrupalCon Portland 2024. Originally called Drupal Starshot ..read more

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog. Drupal Starshot aims to attract mid-market marketers by offering out-of-the-box marketing best practices, user-friendly tools, AI-driven site building features, all while maintaining the many advantages of Drupal Core. I'm excited to share the first version of Drupal Starshot's product strategy, a document that aims to guide the development and marketing of Drupal Starshot. To read it, download the full Drupal Starshot strategy document as a PDF (8 MB). This strategy document is the result ..read more

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog. Today is a big day for Drupal as we officially released Drupal 11! In recent years, we've seen an uptick in innovation in Drupal. Drupal 11 continues this trend with many new and exciting features. You can see an overview of these improvements in the video below: Drupal 11 has been out for less than six hours, and updating my personal site was my first order of business this morning. I couldn't wait! Dri.es is now running on Drupal 11. I'm particularly excited about two key features in this re ..read more

New in Drupal 10.3 The third and final feature release of Drupal 10 ships with a new experimental Navigation user interface, stable Workspaces functionality, stable Single-Directory Components support, simplified menu editing, taxonomy moderation support, new recipe and access policy APIs and more. New experimental Navigation module The new Navigation module provides a redesigned collapsible, vertical navigation sidebar for the administrative user interface. Sub-menus open on a full height drawer that can accommodate deeper navigation levels. On smaller viewports, the toolbar is placed on top ..read more

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog. Although my blog has been quiet, a lot has happened with the Drupal Starshot project since its announcement a month ago. We provided an update in the first Drupal Starshot virtual meeting, which is available as a recording. Today, I am excited to introduce the newly formed Drupal Starshot leadership team. Meet the leadership team Product Lead: Dries Buytaert I will continue to lead the Drupal Starshot project, focusing on defining the product vision and strategy and building the ..read more

New in Drupal 10.2 The second feature release of Drupal 10 improves content modeling, block management, menu and taxonomy organization, and permission administration. New options to sanitize file names make it possible to clean up the names of uploaded files, and media item revisions now have a dedicated user interface. Easier content management 10.2 improves the user experience for managing several types of content: Field types for new fields are visually listed instead of a simple select list. Settings for fields are now all included on one form. Menu items and taxonomy terms have a dedica ..read more

New major release schedule Beginning with Drupal 10, a new Drupal major version will be released every two years in even years (2022, 2024, etc.). Each major version will receive active support for about two years, followed by maintenance support and security coverage for about two more years. Each is supported until two more major versions have been released. This is an example. The exact schedule varies, and will be published on the Drupal core release schedule. Drupal 11 will be released in 2024 Drupal 11 will be released sometime in 2024. Like Drupal 9.0 and 10.0, Drupal 11.0 has three po ..read more

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog. Last week, approximately 1,300 Drupal enthusiasts came together in Lille, France for DrupalCon. In good tradition, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote, commonly referred to as the "Driesnote". You can watch the video of my keynote or download my slides (264 MB). This keynote was unlike any other. I narrated a fairy tale that explores how the Drupal community is working together to simplify the process of starting, building, and maintaining Drupal websites. Yes, you read that c ..read more