23 Mar 2026
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Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #545 - DKAN
Today we are talking about the open data platform DKAN, what it's used for, and how it applies to Drupal with guests Liz Tupper & Dan Feder. We'll also cover Modern Drupal Dashboard as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/545
Topics
- What Is DKAN
- Who Uses Open Data
- 20:08 DKAN Origin Story
- Why Drupal Fits DKAN
- From Distribution to Module
- DKAN 2 Rebuild and JSON Shift
- Async Jobs and API First
- How Teams Publish Data
- What a Dataset Really Is
- Metadata vs Data Access
- Why DKAN Left Drupal Org
- Migration Path to DKAN Four
- Harvesting and Data Store ETL
- APIs Visualizations and Bots
- Roadmap Data Store and AI
- Contributing and Where to File Issues
Resources
- DKAN
- DKAN Drupal Module
- DKAN on GitHub
- Public sites using DKAN 2
- DKAN channel on Drupal Slack
- JSON Form Widget
Guests
Liz Tupper - civicactions.com etupper Dan Feder - getdkan.org dafeder
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Steve Wirt - civicactions.com Swirt
MOTW Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to have your Drupal site admins start with a fast, widget-based interface that surfaces key site metrics, system health, and operational insights? There's a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Feb 2026 by Gaurav Kapoor (gaurav.kapoor) of werk21 in Berlin
- Versions available: 1.0.5, which works with Drupal core 10.3 and 11
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Number of open issues: no open issues
- Usage stats:
- 4 sites
- Module features and usage
- With the module installed, site visitors with the new "Access modern dashboard" permission can access a React-based dashboard with widgets to provide insights on topics like:
- Content overview: total content count, published vs unpublished, and per content type breakdown.
- Users overview: user count per role (users with multiple roles are counted in each role), plus pie chart visualization.
- Additional Content (Entity overview): lists all entity types (content + configuration), shows counts, and provides direct "Manage" links.
- Modules overview: installed modules summary, including enabled/disabled and core/contrib breakdown.
- System & status: key environment details such as Drupal core version, PHP version, and database information.
- Health checks: displays Drupal requirement checks grouped by status (pass/warning/error) with a dedicated detail view.
- Each widget can be clicked to open a detail view of the extended data, making it easy for admins to dig into any area
- The widget-based architecture should also help to pull in data from other sources, potentially including things like analytics
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Drupal Core News: Help us reach Drupal 12's second release window in August
Recap of Drupal 12 release windows
Our release schedule includes three potential release dates for Drupal 12.0.0, depending on when critical requirements are completed:
- Week of June 15, 2026, if beta requirements are completed by March 27
- Week of August 10, 2026, if beta requirements are completed by May 15
- Week of December 07, 2026, if beta requirements are completed by September 11
Our new target release date for Drupal 12.0.0 is the week of August 10, 2026
Many great improvements landed recently. The main branch is on Symfony 8 and most deprecated modules are removed already. With only a few days remaining until the March deadline of the first release option though, we are confident that not all critical requirements will be completed by March 27. Therefore, we are officially announcing that our new target release date for Drupal 12.0.0 is August 10, 2026, and the beta deadline for critical requirements is May 15, 2026.
We need your help to complete requirements by May 15!
While there are other pending improvements that are not hard requirements for Drupal 12's release, these are the most urgent needs:
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PHPUnit 12 support
While our ultimate goal is to support PHPUnit 13 in Drupal 12, there are significant API changes in PHPUnit 12 that we first need to adopt. See #3527936: Introduce support for PHPUnit 12
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Import maps API
CKEditor 5 is changing their installation method in the near future. See #3527914: [PP-1] Use New installation methods for CKEditor5
To support this, we need a JavaScript import maps API in core. See #3398525: Add an API for importmaps
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Update path related changes
To test update paths from Drupal 11.3.0, we need to generate new database dumps. See #3569127: Add new 11.3.x database dump fixtures, without modules deprecated for removal in 12.x
Remove older upgrade paths. See #3580877: [PP-1] Remove updates added prior to 11.3.0 from 12.x
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Remove tests from release packages
To reduce the size of core, we are excluding tests from core release packages, and offering them via a different namespace. This is a disruptive change and should only be done in a major release.
See #3067979: Exclude test files from release packages. -
Deprecate and remove libraries, modules, themes and dependencies
The Toolbar Module needs to be removed from core now that the Navigation module is stable and in the standard profile. See #3484850: [PP-1] [meta] Deprecate Toolbar module
There are more dependencies, modules and themes that are still possible to remove. See #3466088: [meta] Deprecate dependencies, libraries, modules, and themes that will be removed from Drupal 12 core
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Move from Claro to Gin as admin theme
Gin is in core as an alpha experimental extension. Help make it stable and so it can replace Claro.
See #3576488: [meta] Admin theme: path to stable. -
Update to ESLint 9
The coding standard checks are using the unsupported ESLint 8. We need to update to version 9. See #3440225: Update to ESLint v9 with standard rules.
See #3440225: Update to ESLint v9 with standard rules.
The above list are the current highest priorities. We'll keep identifying and tagging Drupal 12 release priority issues. The up to date list can be found using the Drupal 12.0.0 release priority tag.
23 Mar 2026 4:24pm GMT