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A proposal emerging from the LocalGov Drupal community outlines a shared, open-source approach to committee management in councils. Known as Project Quorum, the initiative focuses on consolidating governance workflows-meetings, agendas, documentation, and public access-into a single Drupal-based platform. While such systems are often overlooked in digital prioritisation due to fragmented usage patterns, community feedback suggests the tool addresses persistent operational gaps across councils.

30 Apr 2026 11:56am GMT

Stanford WebCamp 2026 opens its doors today, and as always, it will cost nothing to attend. Free, open, and community-driven for sixteen years, this year's edition arrives at a charged moment for the web: AI is reshaping institutional infrastructure at scale, while the open source values that built the web continue to hold their ground. From a keynote on AI as infrastructure to sessions on accessibility and mentorship, WebCamp 2026 reflects a conversation the web community is having with itself.

30 Apr 2026 6:49am GMT

What's New

• Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44 were released this week. We checked, and we're proud to say that DDEV works great on both. We have one small docs change for the Ubuntu 26.04 native install. The Windows Installer did fail with an Ubuntu 26.04 distro because the wslu package has been removed, but we fixed that in PR, and it has an easy workaround anyway.
• coder.ddev.com Updates → More work is ongoing with Coder.ddev.com, we're hoping to make it fulfil even more of your ambitions. drush works again for Drupal's main branch, and there are lots of other updates. Lots of other updates. Visit coder.ddev.com and start.coder.ddev.com for more, and we'd love to hear your suggestions and experiences at coder-ddev repository or in the DDEV Discord. We've deployed a staging server, and have plans for automated testing of changes so we don't just deploy and try them out.
• Intel Macs have run their course → We'll be retiring our three macOS AMD64 test runners. There's not much more for them to do, so we're going to turn them off. Only 7.3% of you are still using Intel Macs and it's been a very long time since we saw a regression or problem on the Intel test runners that wasn't also caught by the Apple Silicon runners. See the stats.

Talking Drupal Podcast

Stas and Randy appeared on episode 549 of the Talking Drupal podcast. Get the inside scoop on latest DDEV updates, the DDEV Drupal Contrib add-on, coder.ddev.com, and more. Listen to episode 549↗

DrupalDevDays Athens 2026

Community member bserem presented "From Chaos to Consistency" at DrupalDevDays Athens 2026, a DevOps session covering how DDEV brings order to local development environments. View the presentation slides↗. His correct and well-explained thesis is that DDEV add-ons are just a file/feature delivery mechanism that can be used to systematize your team's projects. Watch here for a blog from him!

Community Highlights

A new book on DDEV! Set Up Drupal in 10 Minutes: A Practical DDEV & Composer Guide for Developers. English on Amazon, Italian on Amazon Italy.

Who remembers Mike Anello's 2018 book Local Web Development With DDEV Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Local Web Development With DDEV? 4.6 stars! (Mike is now Treasurer and Board Member of DDEV Foundation, this is how you move up in the world!) My bet is that most of what he described there still works, although many things probably work better now.

Contributor Training

Add-on Creation and Maintenance Contributor Training: Watch it↗

TYPO3 Update for DDEV

The TYPO3 community published a post on what's new in DDEV for TYPO3 developers. Read on TYPO3 News↗

Community Tutorials from Around the Web

• Getting Started with Search API in Drupal → WebWash covers how to set up and use the Search API module in Drupal - useful alongside a DDEV local environment. Read on WebWash↗
• DDEV AI Workspace: Full Drupal AI Development Setup → Read on menetray.com↗

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Governance

The next DDEV board and advisory group meeting is May 6, 2026 at 8:00 AM US Mountain / 10:00 AM US Eastern / 16:00 CEST. Add to Google Calendar • See the agenda.

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Note: Randy on Vacation May 19-June 9

Randy will be away May 19 through approximately June 9, on a bike trip in Sicily. The community will carry on!

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Sponsorship Update

Sponsorship is at 79% of the goal - thank you to everyone who has contributed!

March 2026: ~$9,294/month (77% of goal)

April 2026: ~$9421/month (79% of goal), making progress, thanks!

If DDEV has helped your team, consider sponsoring. Whether you're an individual developer, an agency, or an organization, your contribution makes a difference. → Become a sponsor↗

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

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Statistical Tidbits of the Month

• About 19,000 users report using DDEV each week, live graph.
• SO MANY macOS Docker Providers, live graph.

Stay in the Loop-Follow Us and Join the Conversation

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• Bluesky↗
• Discord↗

Compiled and edited with assistance from Claude Code.

30 Apr 2026 12:00am GMT

Symfony Insight helps you continuously assess and improve the quality of your PHP projects (Symfony, Laravel, and generic PHP) through automated code analysis. In the past weeks we've added 11 new rules, bringing the total to 141 checks across areas such…

27 Apr 2026 7:29am GMT

This week, SymfonyCasts announced a new course on Doctrine inheritance. In addition, we published the schedule for the SymfonyDay Montreal 2026 conference. Lastly, we continued polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 8.1 version, ahead of its release…

26 Apr 2026 7:17am GMT

Modeling inheritance in your code is natural - but how does that translate to your database? We're excited to announce a new SymfonyCasts course: 👉 Doctrine Inheritance: Class Hierarchy in the Database In this course, we explore how Doctrine ORM handles…

24 Apr 2026 7:15am GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT