25 Sep 2026

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Drupal Association blog: Meet The Drupal Association Team At DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 is almost here. The Drupal Association staff and board are heading to the Netherlands next week, and we'd love to see you there!

Photo Credits: Ryan Witcombe

Here's where you'll find us during DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026:

Drupal.org Engineering Panel

Join the DA engineering team for an open and honest look at the current state and future of Drupal.org (the platform the entire community relies on every day). From nearly 10,000 projects migrated to GitLab, plans to support a brand new Drupal.org marketing site, and initiative support for Drupal CMS + Canvas and the AI Initiative, there's a lot to cover. The session closes with an open Q&A, so bring your questions

Day & Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Time: 11:40 to 12:25 CEST

Location: Goudriaan Room I&II

Marketing Panel

Building on the momentum of the Drupal AI initiative, the Drupal Association is growing coordinated advocacy and marketing efforts in new areas, opening the door for more people to get involved and make a visible contribution.

Join the panel to understand how the initiative is taking shape, why they're gaining traction, and what makes them different. The panelists will discuss how marketing in Drupal is becoming one of the most accessible and high-impact ways to contribute, where individuals and organizations alike can raise their profile, earn recognition, and help shape Drupal's future.

Day & Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 16:40 to 17:25 CEST

Location: Goudriaan Room I&II

Drupal Association Public Board Meeting

The DA Public Board Meeting is open to all DrupalCon attendees and is your opportunity to hear directly from the Drupal Association board. Come with your questions, your feedback, and your ideas. This is your chance to engage with the people shaping the future of the Drupal Association.

Day & Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 14:25 - 15:10 CEST

Location: Rotterdam Room I&II

Drupal Association Partner Lunch

An exclusive afternoon gathering for agency leaders and partners to connect with Dries and DA leadership over a seated lunch. A unique opportunity to share strategies, discuss the Drupal business ecosystem, and build meaningful relationships with peers from around the world.

Tickets are required, register here.

Day & Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 12:00 - 13:30 CEST

Location: Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre WTC Rotterdam

Drupal Business Dinner

Cap off Wednesday evening with the Drupal Business Dinner, an intimate gathering of Drupal agency executives for a seated 3-course dinner, a presentation, and meaningful conversations in a beautiful Rotterdam venue.

Tickets are required, register here.

Day & Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Time: 19:00 - 22:30 CEST

Location: De Harmonie, Rotterdam

Photo credits: Matthew Saunders

Whether you're joining us for a session, an exclusive event, or just stopping by our booth to say hello, the Drupal Association team can't wait to connect with you.

The last few days are left to secure your ticket to DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026, if you already haven't. See You in Rotterdam!

25 Sep 2026 12:28pm GMT

The Drop Times: Pantheon to Demo “Outside-In” Drupal AI With Gemini Enterprise in Rotterdam

What changes when Drupal becomes something an enterprise AI agent can act on, rather than the place where every user must work? Pantheon plans to show that model running end to end in Rotterdam.

25 Sep 2026 12:04pm GMT

The Drop Times: Gina Plat and Teun van der Vorm: Map Dependencies Before Pursuing Digital Sovereignty

Digital sovereignty does not begin with replacing software. It begins with knowing which services an organisation depends on, who controls them, and what it would cost to leave.

25 Sep 2026 10:33am GMT

Drupal AI Initiative: Introducing our official Drupal AI Initiative training program: AI Inside Drupal Essentials

As we see our goals for Drupal AI innovation under responsible human guidance flourishing at such a remarkable pace, we recognize a growing community need for practical, responsible ways to learn it. We're excited to announce, as part of our efforts to fill that need, AI Inside Drupal Essentials (AIDE,) developed and presented by DrupalEasy, as the official training program of the Drupal AI Initiative.

We've partnered with Drupal expert developer and highly respected trainer Mike Anello (ultimike) to ensure the program supports our mission to drive responsible AI innovation and build on Drupal's position as the leading open-source content management system for AI integration. Mike and the team at DrupalEasy have the commitment and experience to create, maintain and present the curriculum with our standard for ethical, powerful, and accessible AI in the open-source world.

AIDE

AIDE is designed to help you move forward quickly and confidently with a solid foundation in how to conscientiously take advantage of Drupal AI benefits. The 2-week, 18-hour curriculum is presented on a timetable designed to integrate well into work schedules; meeting live, online for 3 hours every other day. The first session kicks off on November 9, 2026 and runs through November 20th. Additional sessions will be announced in the coming weeks.

In addition to DrupalEasy's signature lively, online classes; each class session is recorded and becomes part of the video library that participants have lifetime access to. Other resources included as part of the course is a dedicated Slack channel and more than 100 pages of technical guides and implementation tools. The cost to register is $600.

Learn risk mitigation & human oversight

Mike Anello, who has meticulously developed hundreds of hours of Drupal curriculum and trained Drupal developers for more than 20 years, has created another stellar program that leads you, hands-on, through admin-facing responsible AI techniques that prioritize workflows that keep a human in the loop to review AI-generated suggestions before they are saved to the database. From class to class, you'll move from secure foundations to advanced agentic workflows and high-performance retrieval augmented generation (RAG) search, with intensive hands-on examples you can apply to your own Drupal projects right away.

Course content

The course covers four areas:

  • AI Foundations: Establish a baseline for secure LLM integration. Configure the AI Automators and Field Widget Actions modules to see how AI output can be reviewed before it's saved.
  • AI Agents: Implement agentic workflows and swarm orchestration agents, and deploy tool-calling capabilities that let AI interact directly with Drupal's Tool API.
  • RAG Search: Build retrieval augmented generation systems using vector databases, and learn semantic chunking and representation strategies that maximize search accuracy.
  • Local AI & Privacy: Deploy local models via Ollama for maximum privacy and cost-efficiency, and use the AI Metering module for automatic local fallback when commercial API quotas are reached.

Our goal, with AIDE and our other learning resources including webinars, workshops, events and the Drupal AI Demo is to make sure everyone who works with Drupal AI can do it safely and effectively.

Learn more about AI Inside Drupal Essentials training , or ask about the course or AIDE team pricing.

25 Sep 2026 10:12am GMT

The Drop Times: DrupalCon Rotterdam Speakers Put AI, Workflows, and Accessibility Into Practice

For several DrupalCon Rotterdam sessions, the useful question is not simply whether Drupal teams can automate more. It is where automation should stop, where review should begin, and what people still have to judge for themselves.

25 Sep 2026 6:14am GMT

DDEV Blog: DDEV September 2026: v1.25.4 Ships, Hobobiker Rides Again, Pressable Goes Official

Nancy Lewis: The Yampa River Flows Again, pastel painting of a river winding between yellow-green trees toward blue mountains under a bright sky

DDEV v1.25.4 Is Out

DDEV v1.25.4 landed on September 2 with 142 PRs from the community. The theme is doing less by hand:

Read the full release post for details.

Snapshots, Explained (with Screencast)

The snapshot work in v1.25.4 got its own post: DDEV Snapshots: Checkpoints, Restores, and Seeded Databases. It covers basic snapshot use, checkpointing during a migration, uncompressed snapshots, snapshots embedded in the project, and seeding a new project from a snapshot - with a screencast↗ walking through old and new behavior.

The older DDEV Database Management post has been updated to match.

Hobobiker Rides Again: A Three-Part Live Series on Drupal 6 → Drupal 11 with Claude

The Drupal AI Learners Club↗ - the initiative led by Amber Matz and Angie Byron that meets regularly for show-and-tell on AI tools and workflows - has scheduled a three-part live series with Randy Fay joining Amber and Angie as host, migrating hobobiker.com - a Drupal 6 site with years of content - two different ways.

After Jamie Abrahams migrated a site live and checked the result with evals in One Command, One Migration: AI Best Practices in Action↗, Randy tried the approach on his own very old site. The results made one thing clear: Claude does its best work with a guided plan, a clear view of the source and destination, and success criteria it has to prove it has met. So the series takes hobobiker.com on two journeys - one ending in static HTML, the other in Drupal 11 - and checks both against the same test suite.

These are working sessions, not polished demos. Bring your questions, suggestions, and opinions; the peanut gallery is part of the show.

All three are on the club's Luma calendar↗, and recaps of past sessions are collected in the session list on drupal.org↗.

Pressable Ships an Official DDEV Add-On

Pressable↗ released an official, open-source DDEV add-on for syncing WordPress sites between their hosting and a local DDEV environment.

There's also a French write-up from KingLand looking at how Pressable combines the DDEV add-on with MCP-driven AI for agency WordPress maintenance, including the case for keeping humans on the sensitive operations: Pressable : l'hébergement WordPress dopé par DDEV et l'IA↗ (French).

Community Projects

ddev-branchery: a URL, PHP version, and database per branch - Benjamin Kott's add-on gives each Git branch its own worktree beside the main checkout, with its own web address, PHP runtime, and isolated database, while the main project keeps running. Documentation↗

ddev-tailnet-proxy: DDEV projects on your tailnet - Titouan Mathis built a proxy that discovers running DDEV projects on a remote development server, assigns them stable ports, and serves them under the server's Tailscale hostname - no per-project configuration. Read the note↗

TYPO3 Quickstarter 0.7.0 - The CLI that scaffolds local TYPO3 environments on DDEV added support for legacy TYPO3 9 and 10 on PHP 7.4, so older extensions can be worked on before modernizing, plus a built-in phpMyAdmin that auto-logs in. Release notes↗

Knecht Cloud, hands-on - Matthias Andrasch walks through installing Knecht Cloud on a Hetzner VPS: project setup, AI-driven workflows, a browser terminal, and online previews, in a tool built for DDEV projects on TYPO3, Drupal, and Craft CMS. Read part 1↗

Talks and Tutorials from Around the Web

DDEV Live Training

Sessions are open to everybody.

Zoom Join Info:
Link: Join Zoom Meeting
Passcode: 12345


Governance


Sponsorship Update

We so appreciate all of you supporting the project!

August 2026: ~$10,038/month (83.7% of goal)

September 2026: ~$10,099/month (84.2% of goal)

If DDEV has helped your team, consider sponsoring. → Become a sponsor↗

Contact us to discuss sponsorship options that work for your organization.


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Compiled and edited with assistance from Claude Code.

25 Sep 2026 12:00am GMT

24 Sep 2026

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Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #571 - GovHub

Today we are talking about GovHub, Drupal in Government, and Why Governments Love Drupal with guest Jasmyne Epps. We'll also cover Convivial Gov Site Template as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/571

Topics

Resources

Guests

Jasmyne Epps - jasmyneepps.com jasmyneepps

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Amber Matz - tugboatqa.com [amber himes matz](https://www.drupal.org/u/amber himes matz)

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

24 Sep 2026 6:00pm GMT

Centarro: Drupal Commerce vs. Shopify

Shopify is the fastest way to launch a simple online store. It handles hosting, security, and checkout beautifully. For straightforward DTC brands, it's hard to beat. But the more your business strays from a simple product catalog (B2B workflows, multi-brand storefronts, complex product configurations, deep ERP integration, content-driven commerce, full SEO control) the more you end up fighting the platform, stacking paid apps, and working around limitations that shouldn't exist.

And there's a deeper issue. Shopify is a merchant services company first and an ecommerce platform second. When 68% of GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) flows through Shopify Payments and the Shop app mediates your post-purchase relationship, you have to ask yourself: do you really own your customer relationship at all?

Drupal Commerce is an open source ecommerce framework that gives you complete ownership of your code, data model, customer relationships, and roadmap. No per-transaction platform fees. No forced migrations. No artificial product limits. No locked-down URLs. No platform inserting itself between you and your buyers. It's built for businesses that need the platform to adapt to them-not the other way around.

Read more

24 Sep 2026 5:53pm GMT

The Drop Times: Enterprise AI Summit Speakers Preview Governed Drupal AI Cases in Rotterdam

Putting AI into production raises harder questions than connecting a model to Drupal. Rotterdam speakers focus on context, evidence, controls and human review.

24 Sep 2026 4:23pm GMT

HOOK_DEV_ALTER(): PHP Structured Concurrency and Beyond (1): history and vision

Structured control flow and managed memory each took away a freedom and handed
back a guarantee. Concurrency in PHP has not made that trade.

24 Sep 2026 3:00pm GMT

The Drop Times: NASCIO State IT Tensions Highlight Governance Questions for Shared Drupal Platforms

A statewide publishing platform can reduce repeated technical work across public websites, but it also establishes an operating model that can outlast the migration that created it.

24 Sep 2026 1:21pm GMT

The Drop Times: Drupal 12 Tightens Filename Handling as New Recipe, Workflow and Hosting Tools Arrive

Release state changes the response: some Drupal changes are ready to use, some warrant a targeted update, and others belong in testing rather than production.

24 Sep 2026 11:55am GMT

Jacob Rockowitz: Vibing Drupal: Using AI to hammer at the Webform module's security issues

I came up with the title for this blog post while working on 20+ Webform security issues, because there were moments when I used Codex to hammer out a particularly complex issue. I couldn't help but find it ironic to use something as advanced as AI to hammer at a problem or challenge.

Some security issues were so complex to reproduce that I had to push Codex to replicate the problem, and it occasionally generated sloppy code. Still, even with Codex generating AI-slop, it helped me understand the root causes and solutions for security issues that had lingered for years.

Before I go any further, let's step back and talk about the challenge of maintaining the Webform module and addressing security issues.

Maintaining the Webform module

The bulk of the Webform module was created a decade ago, when I had more time and motivation to make a sizable contribution to Drupal. Drupal contributors and their contributions come in all shapes and sizes. The current codebase is stable and extendable, with "extendable" as the keyword, because people and AIs can alter and create Webform features and behaviors as needed using contributed modules or custom code. It is ironic that all the example webforms included in the Webform module, intended to help humans, have proven incredibly useful for AIs in understanding and extending webforms.

Though I am willing to say the code is stable, the fact that a webform is generally public and accepts input leaves the Webform module open to security issues. In other words, malicious actors, including AI, will target webforms to exploit XSS vulnerabilities or expose data.

Securing the Webform module

It is worth recognizing and praising Drupal's security team for...Read More

24 Sep 2026 8:32am GMT

The Drop Times: Drupal 12 Moves Core Development to Node.js 24 as Nightwatch Fixes Reach Drupal 11

Core contributors and continuous integration maintainers need to account for the new JavaScript development baseline without treating it as a Drupal 11 or production hosting requirement.

24 Sep 2026 6:44am GMT

The Drop Times: Dropsolid Ties DrupalCon Rotterdam Sponsorship to Governed AI and Shared Infrastructure

The more consequential part of Dropsolid's Rotterdam presence is not the sponsorship tier. It is the argument that Drupal's content, permissions and workflows can form part of the control layer around AI systems using organisational knowledge.

24 Sep 2026 6:00am GMT

Tag1 Insights: All Hands on Deck: Tag1 Is Headed to DrupalCon Rotterdam

Hank VanZile, Senior Director of Customer Experience at Tag1, previews Tag1's seven-talk lineup for DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026: practical AI in Drupal, the deep core work behind performance and testing, and a labor-union learning platform rebuilt on Drupal. One is a shadow-AI session he co-presents with amazee.ai. The day before the conference, Tag1 attends and sponsors the Enterprise Drupal AI Summit as a Certified Gold Partner and Maker in the Drupal AI Initiative.

The DrupalCon program is always more than any one person can take in, so ahead of Rotterdam I want to lay out where Tag1 will be and how to connect with us. We have seven talks across Tuesday the 29th and Wednesday the 30th.

DrupalCon Chicago logo

If you are coming, treat this as a map to where we will be and what we will be talking about. If you are not, the lineup is a fair read on where our heads are this year. A good deal of it is AI a team can put to work in a Drupal project today. More of it is the unglamorous work inside Drupal core, the parts nobody demos but everything else leans on. And one talk is the client story that keeps the rest honest. The full DrupalCon schedule covers everything beyond our own sessions; the times below are all local CEST.

First Stop, Afloat: The Enterprise Drupal AI Summit

Drupal AI Gold Sponsor logo

The week opens on Monday the 28th, before any of the DrupalCon sessions, with a full day at the Enterprise Drupal AI Summit aboard the SS Rotterdam, the former ocean liner. It's a strategy day rather than a code day, built for senior decision-makers in government, higher education, and large enterprises, with a program on data sovereignty and running AI on enterprise platforms. Tag1 is there as both a summit sponsor and a Certified Gold Partner and Maker in the Drupal AI Initiative. The certification marks demonstrated Drupal AI expertise and a commitment to the Drupal code and community, and it fits a longer pattern. Data sovereignty is also where my own session picks up the next day, so if that is the thread you care about, the summit is the place to start.

Next Stop, Ashore: The DrupalCon Sessions

Tuesday, September 29

From Shadow AI to Sovereign AI Infrastructure

Thomas Schröpfer
Thomas Schröpfer
Hank VanZile
Hank VanZile
amazee.ai Tag1 logo

Often, AI use inside a company was never approved by IT. It arrives through a browser extension, a personal account, a tool someone tried because it saved them an afternoon, and it stays out of the security review until something goes wrong. That is shadow AI. Thomas and I walk through an alternative: a private AI gateway that gives an organization visibility into how AI is being used without pushing teams off the tools they like or slowing them down. My part is how Scolta uses amazee.ai's private AI infrastructure to add secure AI capabilities across Drupal, Laravel, and WordPress, so the AI a site needs does not come with the governance gaps shadow AI opens. If this is a challenge your organization is facing, come find me after and we can compare notes.

Wednesday, September 30

Rebuilding the LMS Mid-Flight: A Drupal Success Story with AFT and AFL-CIO

Marcin Grabias

Rebuilding a live LMS is risky. Rebuilding it while it powers mission-critical training for organizations like the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO is even harder. This session takes you through that journey-from growing pains and technical debt to a fully reimagined Drupal-native solution-sharing the lessons learned along the way.

Inside the Pyramid - A path to faster, clearer Drupal testing

Francesco Placella

The test pyramid has been a cornerstone of software quality for decades, yet Drupal core has no formal guidelines instructing contributors how to write automated tests. This session will cover both the current state - discussing techniques to write faster tests - and how to change Drupal to make these improvements structural.

A joyful tour through the CLI now in Drupal Core

Moshe Weitzman

It finally happened! A CLI in Drupal core. With the help and blessing of the Drush maintainers, Drupal core has gained its own extensible CLI. Learn how to use it, and develop and test commands for it.

Client Spotlight

Scolta: Drop-in AI Search Without a Search Server

Kelly Booz
Kelly Booz
Jeremy Andrews
Jeremy Andrews
Share My Lesson logo Tag1 logo

What if you could replace Solr with something that runs in the browser, costs almost nothing, and delivers better results out of the box? Scolta is an open source search toolkit that does exactly that: client-side search powered by Pagefind, with an AI layer for query expansion and summaries.

How we made the biggest performance gains in a decade in Drupal core

Nathaniel Catchpole

Drupal 11.4 reduced database queries and cache I/O by around 50% compared to Drupal 11.0, as well as various front end performance improvements. This session will explain how we got there and give you tips for applying these techniques to your own site.

AI-Powered Site Building in Drupal: From Blank Site to Styled Pages in a Conversation

Francesco Pesenti
Francesco Pesenti
Francesco Quagliati
Francesco Quagliati

Building a complete Drupal site demands expertise across content types, taxonomy, menus, block configuration, and styling. What if a non-technical user could describe what they need in plain language and get back fully structured, styled pages, then refine everything through conversation?

Come Find Us

A lot of the work in these talks usually sits out of sight, in performance, testing, and the plumbing of AI workflows, so a week like this is one of the few times it surfaces all at once. If any of it is close to what you're working on, catch me or any of the team between sessions and let's talk. We would love to hear about the hard problems you're working to solve.

24 Sep 2026 12:00am GMT