Drupal Core

At DrupalCon Vienna 2025, Duncan Worrell of Zoocha outlined how a well-planned content architecture can transform Drupal projects from unscalable chaos into efficient, future-ready platforms. The session emphasized planning before building, helping teams improve UX, SEO, collaboration, and long-term site maintenance. ...more

UI Suite advances Display Builder to beta and targets key Drupal 11.3 core features as October 26 feature freeze approaches. ...more

At DrupalCamp Italy 2025, Luca Lusso of SparkFabrik will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the Drupal AI Initiative. A long-time contributor, he’ll explain what’s already built, what’s in development, and how the community is shaping Drupal’s approach to artificial intelligence. ...more

Dripyard's new blog post details how its premium Drupal themes are built without contrib modules, npm, or external libraries. The article explains technical challenges and solutions for PSR-4 autoloading, Layout Builder integration, and batch recipe installers—delivering a clean, core-only development approach for Drupal theming. ...more

A guest post by accessibility expert Mike Gifford explains how the European Accessibility Act (EAA) reshapes digital inclusion standards and highlights Drupal’s longstanding accessibility features, AI-assisted tools, and community practices designed to help organizations meet the new requirements. ...more

Drupal core contributor Alexander Varwijk has proposed a major architecture update to support asynchronous workflows, background tasks, and compatibility with PHP runtimes like ReactPHP and FrankenPHP. The proposal introduces Symfony Runtime to decouple bootstrapping from the kernel and improve flexibility across environments. ...more

Drupal core contributor Mike Herchel demystifies ARIA usage in this hands-on guide for themers. Learn when and how to use attributes like aria-expanded, aria-label, and role="dialog" to enhance accessibility without overcomplicating your markup. ...more

Drupalize.Me has released a new course on Single Directory Components (SDCs), now part of Drupal core. The course explains how to build, configure, and use SDCs with Twig, YAML, CSS, and JavaScript in a unified directory structure. ...more

Drupal core maintainers Matt Glaman and Mike Herchel will lead a session at DrupalCon Vienna 2025 on how to contribute features and bug fixes to Drupal core, Drupal CMS, and contributed modules. The session takes place on October 15 and is aimed at intermediate contributors, including non-developers. ...more

Stephen Cross and Nic Laflin dive deeper into Drupal hooks, sharing insights on core development, community collaboration, and the personal side of open-source contribution in Talking Drupal Café #007. ...more

Drupal 11.3 introduces a long-awaited setting to disable auto-generated .htaccess files on non-Apache servers. Clean up your codebase and prevent deployment issues with a simple config update. ...more

Drupal core’s Single Directory Components now support component variants through a root-level configuration. Developers can define named variants with titles and descriptions and render them using the #variant key, resolving a major contributed-project blocker ahead of the 11.2.0 release. ...more