News Roundup

Lullabot has been named Tech Company of the Year at the 2025 Netty Awards. The award honors its work in open-source platforms and scalable web infrastructure. Lullabot stood out among firms from over 40 countries for its contributions to technology standards.

A new Drupal module, Partytown Drupal, brings the Partytown JavaScript library into the Drupal ecosystem. It helps shift third-party scripts into web workers to improve performance. The module is now available under a modified name due to a namespace conflict.

Ramsalt Lab has appointed Robin Caers, formerly head of a multidisciplinary Drupal team at NSI, as its new CEO to sharpen customer focus and drive growth across Europe. Co-founder Martin Normann Lund will transition to Chairman of the Board, while co-founder Yngve W. Bergheim shifts to concentrate on strategy and business development. These leadership changes aim to strengthen the organization, improve service delivery, and boost client responsiveness.

The Drupal Association announced the Drupal AI Strategic Initiative at the AI Summit during London Tech Week 2025. It brings together organizations to provide funding and full-time contributors for common AI foundations. The effort builds on the existing AI module and abstraction layer to ensure new features stay compatible across the Drupal platform.

In Part 2 of the “Using Automated Testing Kit in Your Project” series, André Angelantoni, Founder and CTO of Performant Labs, outlines what’s included in the Automated Testing Kit and how to install it. The kit delivers Drupal-focused smoke tests built with Cypress and Playwright, plus helper functions, Drupal hooks, and pre-flight checks. It also includes Testor, a CLI tool for storing, categorizing, and sanitizing snapshots on S3-compatible or SFTP servers.

Version 1.2 of the Bill of Lading module for Drupal is now out. It adds support for listing only custom fields tied to entities and bundles. The update improves site inventory clarity, especially for audits and migrations.

Alejandro Madrigal will host an online session on Friday, July 4, 2025, from 9:30 to 11:30 AM CST. The event, “Creating a Drupal contrib module using Claude Code,” will demonstrate how Anthropic’s Claude Code can speed up Drupal contrib module development. Attendees will see practical examples using Mercury Editor and SDC, learn form-alter strategies for display selector components, and watch a live test of the generated module.

The DropTimes social media manager Chinju Prakash has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award 2024 for Translation for her Malayalam rendition of Gioconda Belli’s memoir El país bajo mi piel (published as എന്റെ രാജ്യം, എന്റെ ശരീരം), a work celebrated for its lyrical depth, emotional resonance, and faithful preservation of the original’s cultural nuances.

Drupal 10.5.1 is out, with bug fixes to boost stability and performance. It's a recommended update for all sites on the 10.5.x branch. Also, Drupal 10.3.x is now end-of-life—users should upgrade for continued security.

A call for speakers is open for a government open source event on 29 January 2026 in Brussels. The event highlights Drupal use in the public sector and welcomes global participation. Sessions should focus on digital services, policy, and innovation with open tech.

Tag1 Consulting has upgraded its Drupal 7 Extended Support to include Apache Solr 8.x and 9.x. This brings modern Solr support to the Apache Solr Search and Search API Solr modules. The update boosts security and removes the need to run outdated Solr versions.

North Dakota State University launched a unified Drupal-powered platform that consolidates nearly 300 legacy websites into a single recruitment hub. Four Kitchens led the rebuild, using Drupal and Emulsify with AI-enhanced vanilla JavaScript to achieve up to 99 Lighthouse scores and a 0.5-second first contentful paint. A Web Principals initiative trained over 150 content editors on Layout Paragraphs tools, while accessibility and SEO enhancements ensure compliance and improved visibility.

Axelerant has introduced a composable MACH platform using Drupal 11 as a headless CMS and Next.js front ends to manage multiple branded websites from a single content repository. The solution leverages microservices, cloud-native containers, API-first endpoints (JSON:API/GraphQL), and AI-assisted editorial tools for unified previews and multilingual workflows. Early adopters, including a European education consortium and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, reported streamlined governance, a 49 % SEO uplift, and 38 % faster site responsiveness.

Drupal has proposed a Minimum Viable Product for a new Site Template Marketplace and is asking for community feedback by July 13. The MVP will include up to 15 templates and be tested at DrupalCon Vienna and Chicago. Only Certified Partners can submit templates during this phase, and a final decision is expected after a board vote on July 24.

Several Drupal events are lined up this week, including meetups in Lake Constance, the Pacific Time zone, and Pune. LocalGov Drupal Camp 2025 is happening Thursday with a focus on public sector collaboration. Plus, Laracon 2025 is on the radar for PHP developers, taking place later in July.

Promet Source has opened registration for six live Drupal training courses starting July 14. These one- to five-day sessions cover content editing, site building, front-end development, theming, and module development. Courses run through July 17, with costs ranging from $545 to $2,195, and private group training is available on custom dates.

The Drupal AI module 1.1.0 introduces a full agentic framework with function calling and a graphical UI that lets you build and configure AI agents entirely through Drupal’s interface. Via Drupal Forge, developers can spin up a preconfigured site in under five seconds, complete with $1 in AI credits and a free 30-day trial—without writing custom code. Automated provisioning collects basic project details and returns a ready-to-use site link, with an optional DevPanel-powered cloud dev environment, thanks to contributions from Salim Lakhani, Darren Oh, and the DevPanel team.

The DrupalX project has upgraded both its standard and decoupled starter kits to Drupal 11. Drupal XD now integrates better with GraphQL and includes a Next.js frontend. DrupalXS sees improved theme customisation, editorial tools, and layout-building support.

DrupalCon North America 2026 heads to Chicago with major updates. Ticket prices are dropping, and new perks support local camps and volunteers. Summits, trainings, and networking will get a boost, with early registration starting this September.

The Drupal AI Strategic Initiative was featured at the 2025 AI Summit during London Tech Week. Community leaders highlighted its focus on ethical, open-source AI tools for Drupal. They urged companies and contributors to support the project with funding and development time.

Ivan Zugec will host a free livestream on Saturday, June 28 at 12 AM IST to demonstrate how to build charts and data visualizations in Drupal CMS. The session will cover installing the Charts module, embedding custom charts, and generating visualizations with Views. Attendees will also learn to explore chart types and apply customizations using Google Charts and Billboard.js.

Drupal 11.2.0 is now available, bringing faster installation and improved performance. The update introduces object-oriented hook implementations and built-in JSON Schema support. Media handling gets a boost with native AVIF support and WebP fallback.

InfoBeans hosted the June 7 Drupal Pune Meetup, emphasizing support over marketing. The event sparked internal interest, with several team members exploring deeper involvement in the Drupal community. While Drupal isn't core to their business, InfoBeans values open-source collaboration and remains open to future engagement.

James Williams has released a new Drupal module called Autocreate Access. It adds role-based control to the taxonomy autocomplete widget, letting admins restrict term creation by user role. The module respects existing permissions and offers a simple toggle per field.