fidzu : Drupal

Every framework service that holds state is a bug under fibers. The current fix is to switch concurrency off. There is a third option.

26 Sep 2026 3:00pm GMT

Every Druxt site I have built signs people in by sending them somewhere else to do it: out to Drupal's login page, on to a consent screen, and eventually back. With Druxt Auth 0.5.0 the username and password can now be handled entirely in the frontend instead, either through the authorization code grant or through the password grant.

If you have not used it, Druxt Auth wires Nuxt's auth module to Simple OAuth on the Drupal side. It targets Nuxt 2 today, because @nuxtjs/auth-next does.

The first is the authorization code grant, which now takes credentials directly. Druxt Auth signs the visitor in through Drupal's JSON login route first, so the authorize step finds a session waiting and returns a code without rendering anything:

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26 Sep 2026 11:30am GMT

AI becomes a different infrastructure problem once organisations need to know where data goes, which models are approved, and how spending is controlled. amazee.ai and Tag1 will bring those questions to DrupalCon Rotterdam through a private gateway and Scolta implementation.

26 Sep 2026 10:04am GMT

A coroutine nobody owns is a leak. Under one process per request you never see it. Persistent servers take that away.

25 Sep 2026 6:00pm GMT

A workflow can report success and still be wrong, while a thriving community can quietly depend on too few people. These Rotterdam speakers look past the demo to the evidence, architecture, feedback, and ownership that determine whether Drupal work holds up.

25 Sep 2026 3:39pm GMT

mkdir my-drupal-site && cd my-drupal-site
ddev config --project-type=drupal11 --docroot=web
ddev composer create-project drupal/cms
ddev launch

25 Sep 2026 2:31pm GMT

25 Sep 2026 12:28pm GMT

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

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

25 Sep 2026 10:12am GMT

Some Drupal problems begin with too much rather than too little: too much legacy HTML, hundreds of career choices and brand sites, or code generated faster than teams can understand it. These Rotterdam sessions examine the structures that need to exist before speed becomes useful.

25 Sep 2026 8:12am GMT

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 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:

• Database seeding - a new project can start from a seed snapshot instead of an import step.
• ddev start --reset-database - throw away a project's database and start clean without ddev delete -O.
• Global Dockerfiles and env files - image and environment customizations applied to every project at once, instead of per-project.
• MySQL 9.7 LTS, plus MODX Revolution and Maho project types.
• Linux packages moved to Cloudsmith at packages.ddev.com (Gemfury keeps working).

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↗.

• October 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM US Pacific / 12:30 PM US Eastern / 18:30 CEST - Part 1: Road Test: Having Claude Write the Tests Before the Trip
  Before any migration starts, we need a way to know whether it worked. Randy works with Claude to explore the Drupal 6 site and design automated tests covering content and design: pages, paths, images, menus, and how things look. The goal is a test suite that doesn't depend on any particular destination, so the same tests can run against a static archive and a Drupal 11 rebuild. Along the way: how to push Claude past "looks good to me" toward a complete verification plan, and how a sandboxed environment like coder.ddev.com smooths out the process.
  RSVP↗

• October 23, 2026 at 9:30 AM US Pacific / 12:30 PM US Eastern / 18:30 CEST - Part 2: The Last Ride: Sending a Drupal Site into Retirement
  Not every old Drupal site needs an upgrade; some just need a dignified retirement. Randy has archived plenty of legacy sites as static HTML, and this time Claude does the work - given a proven strategy (Lullabot's "Sending a Drupal Site into Retirement"), clear success criteria, and the tests from Part 1. Can it turn hobobiker.com into a static site that holds up, in an hour, in a way everyone watching can follow? A practical use case for anyone with an aging site that still has content worth keeping.
  RSVP↗

• October 30, 2026 at 9:30 AM US Pacific / 12:30 PM US Eastern / 17:30 CET - Part 3: The Long Haul: Planning and Running a Drupal 6 to Drupal 11 Migration
  This is the hard one. Drupal 6 to Drupal 11 skips many major versions and hits most of the snags that come with them. Instead of turning Claude loose, we prepare it the way you'd onboard a new team member: first it explores the D6 source database and files, then it learns what the D11 destination offers, then it writes a migration plan before touching any code. Randy follows that plan live, with plenty of input from the peanut gallery, stopping at sensible checkpoints and picking up in later sessions if needed. The finish line is the same test suite from Road Test, now running against a working Drupal 11 site.
  RSVP↗

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.

• What it does - ddev pull pressable and ddev push pressable sync the database and uploads over SSH and WP-CLI, with no API tokens or plugins required. --skip-db and --skip-files let you move one or the other, and Pressable limits pushes to non-production staging sites, with confirmation prompts, as a safeguard.
• Install - ddev add-on get pressable/ddev-pressable
• Links: changelog entry↗ • source on GitHub↗

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 & shopware-cli for Shopware 6 → Benny Poensgen's slides from Shopware Open-Stage on September 17, 2026, on pairing DDEV with shopware-cli. View the deck↗ - see also his Shopware on DDEV post, and his October 21 training session below.
• Mailpit with DDEV for Drupal 11 email testing (Spanish) → Jesús Daza covers DDEV's built-in Mailpit integration and an SMTP-based setup, how to reach the UI, and how to confirm mail is being delivered during development. Read on solucionex.com↗
• A DDEV-based local development workflow → Michael K. Laweh on what DDEV gives a consultant working across Laravel, Yii, and WordPress projects: consistency across projects and teams, fast project setup, and framework-agnostic tooling. Read on klytron.com↗

DDEV Live Training

Sessions are open to everybody.

• October 21, 2026 at 8:00 AM US Mountain / 10:00 AM US Eastern / 16:00 CEST - Shopware with DDEV, with Benny Poensgen
  A look at running Shopware on DDEV, from Benny's earlier post on the blog.
  Add to Google Calendar • Download .ics

• November 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM US Mountain / 10:00 AM US Eastern / 16:00 CET - Advanced Coder.ddev.com Techniques
  Using the coder CLI, local and web-based VS Code, and remote-controlling Claude, including the freeform template.
  Add to Google Calendar • Download .ics

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

Governance

• The next DDEV advisory group meeting, open to everybody, is November 4, 2026 at 8:00 AM US Mountain / 10:00 AM US Eastern / 16:00 CET. Add to Google Calendar • See the agenda. We love to hear from our community!

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.

Stay in the Loop-Follow Us and Join the Conversation

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• Bluesky↗
• Discord↗

Compiled and edited with assistance from Claude Code.

25 Sep 2026 12:00am GMT

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

• GovHub Origins and Goals
• Feature Requests and Governance
• Why Government Chooses Drupal
• Team Structure and Release Cadence
• Accessibility and Compliance Strategy
• Hosting Model and Multisite
• Structured Content and Microcontent
• Syndication and Emergency Alerts
• Orchard Design System Explained
• Training and Onboarding Editors
• Gov Talks Conference
• Logo Specs and Releases
• Ticket Prioritization PRICE
• QA Workflow with Tugboat
• Handling Traffic Spikes
• Drupal 11 Performance Talk
• Drupal 11 Upgrade Gotchas
• Getting Users Excited
• Translation Strategy Limits
• Why Government Loves Drupal

Resources

• GovHub
• The Bug Stops Here - The State of Georgia Shifts Left (GovCon 2025 presentation with Jasmyne Epps and James Sansbury)
• Accelerating an ambitious migration and development project (GovHub + Tugboat migration story)
• Logo page
• Public facing knowledge base
• Orchard design system
• (P)Rice
  • (P)olitics - (R)each - (I)mpact - (C)onfidence - (E)ffort
• Luma

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

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to stand up a polished, accessible government website in Drupal (with components, content types, SEO, and cookie consent all wired up) without writing any code? There's a site template for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Convivial Gov
• Brief history
  • Created in March 2026 by Morpht, the shop behind the Convivial family - with Ivan Zugec leading the maintainer team.
  • Versions available: 1.3.3, which works with Drupal 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained: release just last week, on September 16th
  • Security coverage
  • Test coverage: functional tests for install and validation, plus a kernel requirements test.
  • Documentation there's a full handbook over at docs.morpht.com, and a live demo at gov.convivial.io
  • Open issues: none?
• Site template features and usage
  • Like the Haven site template we talked about a couple of weeks ago, Convivial Gov gives you a curated stack plus demo content, and in this case hands you a robust, ready-to-customize government site.
  • Because it's built on Drupal CMS, you get all the latest Drupal tooling: Canvas for visual page building, Single Directory Components, and Recipes.
  • The front end is Morpht's Morphos theme, built on Tailwind and DaisyUI, so you get dark mode, multiple colour palettes, and a big library of editor-friendly components out of the box. It's worth mentioning that using the Morphos theme on a production site requires a paid license
  • The provided components are sorted into six buckets: container, content, child, element, background, and behavior. They include fun ones like scroll reveal and a colour palette switching behavior
  • The content model is broad. You get seven content types: Page, Section, Article, Publication, Resource, Topic, and Audience. And, they come with a stack of teaser and card view modes to display them.
  • The whole point is no-code: a site builder can compose sophisticated pages in Canvas without ever touching a template.
  • One thing to watch: the default timezone is Australia/Sydney out of the box
  • It's also worth comparing Convivial Gov to another site template called Local. Both dropped in March 2026, both are Canvas-based Drupal CMS site templates for the public sector, and both lean on ECA for automation - so there's real common ground. The difference is scope and mechanism. Local, from Annertech, is narrowly purpose-built for local councils and community-service directories: it ships a specific service information architecture - Service and Service Landing content types - with ECA wired so section pages stay in sync when service pages get published or updated, taking its cues from the gov.uk design system. Convivial Gov goes the other way - it's design-system-led and general-purpose, a broad component library and content model meant for any government, agency, or marketing site rather than one particular workflow.

24 Sep 2026 6:00pm GMT

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

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