Drupal CMS News Digest
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Dominique De Cooman: The CMS is unbundling. The DXP is rebundling.
Read moreAI makes execution cheap. It makes context, coordination, governance and sovereignty more valuable.The CMS is being unbundled into a control plane and an execution plane. Follow that logic across the full customer experience and something else becomes visible: the DXP is being rebundled as the shared control plane for an organisation’s digital promise.The CMS is unbundling. The DXP is rebundling.drupalMonday, June 22, 2026 - 18:00
https://dominiquedecooman.com/
Podcast: Talking digital sovereignty with James Kanter
Open Source won the technical argument a long time ago. But it still hasn't solved the funding and sustainability problem, one I've spent much of my career chipping away at.
Now governments around the world are pushing for digital sovereignty: control over critical technology they depend on.
Open Source began as a volunteer movement, and commercialization helped it scale. Now digital sovereignty could accelerate Open Source's third and final chapter: governments helping to fund the Open Source software they depend on, just as they fund roads, schools, and defense.
It could be a rare win-win: Open Source becomes more sustainable, while governments and society get the resilience and independence they are looking for.
That is what makes this moment feel so important, and why I've been writing about digital sovereignty so much lately.
I got into all of this on the latest episode of EU Scream, hosted by James Kanter, who covered the EU for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for twelve years.
James also pushed the conversation further, into the broader public debate about technology, the risks ahead, and why I believe Open Source can help keep some of the more dystopian scenarios at bay.
Much of what we talked about builds on arguments I've made before, in The Software Sovereignty Scale and The Sovereignty Prerequisite. But if long blog posts aren't your thing,...
https://dri.es/podcast-talking
The Drop Times: Government Summit Seeks Public Sector Drupal Sessions
DrupalCon Rotterdam’s first Government Summit has opened its call for public-sector session proposals ahead of the one-day event on Monday 28 September 2026. The summit will bring local, national, and European public administrations together around shared digital infrastructure, open source reuse, digital sovereignty, and Drupal-based service delivery. Organisers are seeking case studies, demonstrations, workshops, and facilitated discussions, with submissions closing on Monday 29 June 2026 and selected participants receiving complimentary access to the summit.
https://www.thedroptimes.com/7
DDEV Blog: DDEV June 2026: Support experience determines DDEV's future, Upsun transfers DDEV trademarks
We Love To Hear Your Support Questions!
As you know and have experienced personally, AI has been replacing human interaction in support situations, and in some cases doing a decent job. It generally does a good job with questions about DDEV.
But getting answers to questions is not the only purpose of support. It's also a great way to communicate problems and ambiguities to project maintainers.
We want you to ask us questions! We live for your questions. We miss the fact that you've been absent from Discord, #ddev in Drupal Slack, and the issue queue. When you ask, it helps us to understand what your struggles are and how DDEV can get better. DDEV's strength has always been the community's willingness to engage and share their needs and frictions and hopes for the project.
As you know, Stack Overflow has been displaced by AI. There aren't new answers going up there, because people use the AI answers and don't improve anything for the future. But DDEV is not static and its future depends on you and your needs. If we don't hear you ask about those, we can't react to your experience.
Join us in all the support channels!
Upsun Completes DDEV Trademark Transfer
Upsun has finished transferring the DDEV trademark to the DDEV Foundation — a milestone for the DDEV project's long-term independence and health. This is a generous and important step for...
https://ddev.com/blog/ddev-jun
Web Wash: Getting Started with Views in Drupal CMS
Views is one of the most important modules in Drupal. After the field system, it is the tool you reach for most often as a site builder. You use it to build content listings, create blocks, power admin screens, and feed components into Drupal Canvas.
In the video above, you’ll learn how to build a Views page, customize fields with image styles and rewrite tokens, expose filters and sorts, configure pagers and infinite scroll, expose a view block as a Canvas component, and create a backend admin page.
https://www.webwash.net/gettin
#! code: LocalGov Drupal Camp 2026
LocalGov Drupal Camp 2026 LocalGov Drupal Camp 2026 was held on 11th and 12th June in the city of Sheffield in the north of England. I drove over the Pennines from my home in Cheshire to attend the camp for the two days.LocalGov Drupal, in case you weren't aware, is a Drupal distribution that is set up in a way that makes it easy for councils to publish their content. Since it's built on Drupal the sites can also make use of the many Drupal modules available. There are also lots of additional LocalGov Drupal modules that integrate with waste collection systems, bus timetables, election results, and many more.Last year, LocalGov Drupal was being used by 57 council websites across the UK. This year, that figure has jumped to 73! A fantastic achievement, with that number only set to get bigger.The camp itself consisted of a Wednesday night social night, a day of talks and other sessions, followed by a day of workshops and sprints.Wednesday NightThe social on Wednesday night was held at the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield city centre. On entry we got a couple of free drinks, and there was plenty of pizza to go around (perhaps too much pizza!).This was amazing venue to have a social! After spending a while catching up and chatting with lots people we went into the museum itself and played some games for a while. 4 player Pacman and Ultimate Chicken Horse were...
https://www.hashbangcode.com/a
Webpro Company blog: Drupal vs Headless CMS: which approach fits a large organization's digital platform?
When an organization plans a new digital platform or modernizes an existing Drupal website, the discussion often turns to one question: should Drupal be used as a full content management and web platform, or should the organization move toward a headless CMS model? The right answer depends less on the trend and more on how content, services, users and administration work in practice. Drupal vs Headless CMS: which approach fits a large organization's digital platform? When an organization plans a new digital platform or modernizes an existing Drupal website, the discussion often turns to one question: should Drupal be used as a full content management and web platform, or should the organization move toward a headless CMS model? This is not only a technical choice. For larger…
https://webpro.company/blog/dr
Webpro Company blog: Drupal 7 Migration Statistics in 2026: What the Numbers Really Mean
A Drupal 7 migration in 2026 should not be treated as a simple technical upgrade. The statistics point to a wider operational risk that requires audit work, budgeting, content migration planning, and editorial interface decisions. Drupal 7 Has Not Disappeared, Even Though Official Support Has Ended Official security and compatibility support for Drupal 7 ended on 5 January 2025. Drupal.org explains on its Drupal 7 End of Life page that Drupal 7 no longer receives regular community security or compatibility updates after that date. In 2026, the question is no longer whether Drupal 7 will reach end of life. It already has. Public usage data still shows that many websites have not yet moved to a newer Drupal version or another platform. According to Drupal.org usage statistics, more than…
https://webpro.company/blog/dr
Peoples Blog: AI Creates Content, CMS Keeps It Under Control: Why Drupal Still Matters in the AI Era
Artificial Intelligence has dramatically changed the way content is created. Tasks that once required hours of research and writing can now be completed in minutes. Blog posts, product descriptions, FAQs, summaries, social media content, and even long-form articles can be generated using AI-powered tools with just a few prompts.
https://peoplesblog.co.in/arti
The Drop Times: Robert Menetray Builds DruScan to Simplify Drupal Audits
Inherited Drupal sites often leave teams with scattered checks, uncertain configuration, and limited visibility beyond the repository. Robert Menetray Caballero built DruScan from freelance audit scripts into a contributed module and optional dashboard that reviews configuration, logs, module updates, code quality, security-related signals, and score history. The tool’s privacy boundary is central: detailed reports remain inside the local Drupal environment, while DruScan receives only the data needed for cross-site monitoring, keeping it as an oversight aid rather than a replacement for Drupal judgement.
https://www.thedroptimes.com/i
Aten Design Group: Search Across Multiple Drupal Sites with Pantheon SOLR
Search Across Multiple Drupal Sites with Pantheon SOLR
Joel Steidl
Thu, 06/18/2026 - 13:34
Drupal Search feels like a solved problem. Until you're managing a network of Drupal sites and your users expect to find content regardless of which one it lives on, that is. At that point, the question stops being "how do we add search?" and starts being "how do we build a unified search experience across an entire digital ecosystem?"The obvious workaround is to bring in a third-party Solr provider. That works, but it means another vendor, another bill, and another service to monitor and secure. For organizations already invested in Pantheon's managed infrastructure, it further fragments the operational footprint rather than simplifying it.At Aten, this challenge comes up regularly with clients running multi-site Drupal architectures on Pantheon. The solution we've landed on keeps everything within the platform, using four contributed modules working together as a hub-and-spoke proxy. This post walks through the architecture, why it exists, and how to implement it.The Constraint You Can't Route AroundPantheon's managed Solr is excellent:...
https://atendesigngroup.com/ar
Centarro: The Difference Between B2B and B2C eCommerce
B2C eCommerce usually gets all the attention, because that’s what most people engage with. They buy stuff from Amazon, Etsy, or a Shopify store without thinking too much about it. The customer comes to the website and makes a purchase. Usually, there is a portal to track the order and some transactional emails for updates, and finally, the package is delivered to their door. If they bought from a company that has its act together, they might spend the next 3-6 months being remarketed to because the company really wants to make this customer a repeat customer. But this B2C eCommerce experience, while ubiquitous and recognizable to most, is only scratching the surface.The scale of B2B commerce is actually much larger than its B2C cousin. The global B2B eCommerce market is expected to reach roughly $37 trillion in 2026, approximately six times the size of the global B2C market. Yet despite that enormous footprint, B2B digital commerce remains far less mature than its B2C counterpart. Software that serves the latter doesn’t work for the former. The differences between B2B and B2C commerce run deep, from how deals get made to how orders get shipped to how platforms are architected. Different customers. Different requirements. Different expectations. To add further complications, businesses increasingly need to operate in both worlds simultaneously.
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https://www.centarro.io/blog/d
Drupal AI Initiative: Drupal AI 1.4.0: Unveiling Extensibility, Enterprise Resilience, and Advanced Guardrails
Just two months after the milestone release of Drupal AI 1.3.0, we are thrilled to announce that Drupal AI 1.4.0 is officially here!
With the 1.x branch reaching a high level of maturity and stability, we are excited to transition into a more predictable, bi-monthly minor release cadence. Moving forward, the Drupal community can look forward to a steady, reliable stream of improvements, new integrations, and expanded platform capabilities.
Drupal AI 1.4.0 represents a major evolutionary step, focusing heavily on extensibility, scalability, normalization, and preparing the broader ecosystem for the next generation of AI-powered digital experiences.
Let's dive into what's new in this release.
1. A Highly Extensible AI Ecosystem for Developers
One of our primary themes for 1.4.0 is giving contributed module developers the tools they need to extend and enrich Drupal AI. We want to make extending this module as seamless as writing a simple prompt.
Markdown Editor Extensibility
Contrib modules can now extend the markdown editor experience directly. The newly available Document Loader integration, for example, allows content creators to load content from virtually any document type directly into their editor workflow.
This architectural improvement opens the door for the community to build richer editor experiences and provider-specific tooling without requiring any modifications to...
https://www.drupal.org/about/a
Salsa Digital: One year of the Drupal AI Initiative: open, governed AI at scale
The Drupal AI Initiative One year ago, the Drupal AI Initiative launched with a clear purpose: to accelerate responsible AI innovation in Drupal and strengthen Drupal's position as the leading open-source CMS for AI-assisted digital experiences. Since then, it has grown into one of the most coordinated contribution efforts in Drupal's history with: 32 partner organisations 50+ active contributors 1k+ issues closed in the first half of 2026 alone 50+ releases of the AI core module 16k+ Drupal sites now running the AI module, up from around 5k at the time of the initiative's launch Those numbers reflect something more than technical momentum.
/insights/one-year-drupal-ai-i
The Drop Times: Jorge Tutor’s CKEditor5 Markdown Module Gives Drupal Editors a Controlled Paste Path
Markdown has become a practical drafting format for Drupal teams working across notes apps, code editors, documentation systems, and AI-assisted writing tools. Jorge Tutor’s CKEditor5 Markdown module addresses the handoff into Drupal by converting pasted Markdown through an explicit editor dialog, then letting CKEditor5 enforce the active text format’s HTML rules. In written responses to The DropTimes, Tutor framed the module as a narrow fix for teams that want Markdown during drafting but not as the stored or rendered content format.
https://www.thedroptimes.com/7
Webpro Company blog: Drupal CMS 2.0 and Canvas in a client project
Drupal CMS 2.0 promises a faster start, visual page building and AI-assisted workflows. In a client project, the important question is not only how good the demo looks, but how the solution behaves two years later. Drupal CMS 2.0 was released on 28 January 2026. Its main themes are Canvas, AI tools and site templates. Drupal.org describes it as a way for marketing teams to launch branded sites faster. This is an important shift for Drupal. Drupal has long been strong for complex systems, but getting started has often required more technical work than simpler CMS products. Drupal CMS is an attempt to reduce that friction. What changed in Drupal CMS 2.0? Drupal CMS 2.0 is not a separate technology branch. It is still Drupal, but with a new starting point. The main changes include: Canvas…
https://webpro.company/blog/dr
