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Twenty-five years! In the world of technology, hitting a quarter-century milestone while remaining a top-notch powerhouse of the internet is an achievement so rare it's almost unheard of. Today, we're popping the confetti and cutting the cakes around the world to celebrate a colossal journey. This isn't just a birthday for a piece of software; it's a testament to resilience, constant evolution, and the deep-seated belief in doing things the right way. Join us as we look back on 25 years of shared passion, contribution, and the incredible community that has made Drupal so powerful. Happy birthday, Drupal!

Trusted by millions of sites and applications, Drupal has been the secure, flexible backbone for everyone from global governments and prestigious universities to world-renowned NGOs, major media outlets, and countless ambitious startups. Drupal's versatility allowed it to power a wide array of systems far beyond traditional websites, including intranets, booking systems, learning platforms, data hubs, and IoT dashboards.

For a quarter century, Drupal remained true to its technical soul. Its strength remains in structured content, best-in-class workflow features-including moderation, granular permissions, and multilingual support-and delivery to various displays via reusable content and APIs. Under the hood, proven performance, precise caching, and a mature security process ensure scalability. Its core strengths of extendability, customizability, and openness solidify its status as a uniquely flexible and sovereign digital platform.

Not only technically capable itself, Drupal's design and culture inherently promoted sharing and reuse. This encouraged people to build widely capable and powerful general components, and contribute them back, a mindset that fueled the growth of over 50,000 modules.

But beyond the millions of sites, the technical power, and the tens of thousands of modules, Drupal's true magic lies in the people. It's a platform that created careers. For many, Drupal was the first step into the world of content management. For tens of thousands more, it blossomed into a fulfilling career. Developers, architects, designers, editors, trainers, marketers, agency founders-a full spectrum of digital careers have flourished around Drupal.

Drupal's influence stretches far beyond the codebase and business, it is also a world-class social network. It sparked friendships, and yes, even led to a few real life Drupal families. People who would otherwise never have met have become lifelong friends. We have learned together, collaborated on projects, and passionately argued over UIs, policies and APIs, but with the goal of emerging with a stronger connection. This vibrant, global community is the true essence of Drupal: a place where even disagreement comes from a shared passion, and where professional collaboration blossoms into genuine human friendship.

Without the community, Drupal wouldn't be here today. So raise a glass for yourselves! The thinkers, designers, marketers, organizers, testers, developers, maintainers, managers, documenters, trainers, reviewers, bugfixers, funders, accessibility professionals, translators, authors, photographers, videographers and countless others who made Drupal what it is.

Drupal is here today not because it chased trends. But because people cared and they did the right thing. Happy birthday, Drupal!

Thanks to Gábor Hojtsy, Frederick Wouters, Surabhi Gokte, Nick Vanpraet and Joris Vercammen for their contributions to this post.

Twenty-five years! In the world of technology, hitting a quarter-century milestone while remaining a top-notch powerhouse of the internet is an achievement so rare it's almost unheard of. Today, we're popping the confetti and cutting the cakes around the world to celebrate a colossal journey. This isn't just a birthday for a piece of software; it's a testament to resilience, constant evolution, and the deep-seated belief in doing things the right way. Join us as we look back on 25 years of shared passion, contribution, and the incredible community that has made Drupal so powerful. Happy birthday, Drupal!

Trusted by millions of sites and applications, Drupal has been the secure, flexible backbone for everyone from global governments and prestigious universities to world-renowned NGOs, major media outlets, and countless ambitious startups. Drupal's versatility allowed it to power a wide array of systems far beyond traditional websites, including intranets, booking systems, learning platforms, data hubs, and IoT dashboards.

For a quarter century, Drupal remained true to its technical soul. Its strength remains in structured content, best-in-class workflow features-including moderation, granular permissions, and multilingual support-and delivery to various displays via reusable content and APIs. Under the hood, proven performance, precise caching, and a mature security process ensure scalability. Its core strengths of extendability, customizability, and openness solidify its status as a uniquely flexible and sovereign digital platform.

Not only technically capable itself, Drupal's design and culture inherently promoted sharing and reuse. This encouraged people to build widely capable and powerful general components, and contribute them back, a mindset that fueled the growth of over 50,000 modules.

But beyond the millions of sites, the technical power, and the tens of thousands of modules, Drupal's true magic lies in the people. It's a platform that created careers. For many, Drupal was the first step into the world of content management. For tens of thousands more, it blossomed into a fulfilling career. Developers, architects, designers, editors, trainers, marketers, agency founders-a full spectrum of digital careers have flourished around Drupal.

Drupal's influence stretches far beyond the codebase and business, it is also a world-class social network. It sparked friendships, and yes, even led to a few real life Drupal families. People who would otherwise never have met have become lifelong friends. We have learned together, collaborated on projects, and passionately argued over UIs, policies and APIs, but with the goal of emerging with a stronger connection. This vibrant, global community is the true essence of Drupal: a place where even disagreement comes from a shared passion, and where professional collaboration blossoms into genuine human friendship.

Without the community, Drupal wouldn't be here today. So raise a glass for yourselves! The thinkers, designers, marketers, organizers, testers, developers, maintainers, managers, documenters, trainers, reviewers, bugfixers, funders, accessibility professionals, translators, authors, photographers, videographers and countless others who made Drupal what it is.

Drupal is here today not because it chased trends. But because people cared and they did the right thing. Happy birthday, Drupal!

Thanks to Gábor Hojtsy, Frederick Wouters, Surabhi Gokte, Nick Vanpraet and Joris Vercammen for their contributions to this post.

We are excited to announce that the main branch is now the official Drupal core development branch. Using a main branch aligns Drupal core with the best practices of industry and major open-source projects. This move is the final step of infrastructure changes that began in 2023.

Going forward, main is the new, primary development trunk for Drupal core. Most active work and outstanding issues currently filed against 11.x should now be targeted at main. The 11.x branch will remain for Drupal-11-specific issues, while Drupal 12 development will happen in the main branch.

Simplifying issue management

With this update, it will be easier for contributors to identify the primary development branch. Contributors don't need to know what the current development version number is.

This change also eliminates the overhead of mass updates to change the version number on open issues. The use of version-specific development branches required a cumbersome cycle of new branches and mass updating of issues with each major version release. Using a main branch significantly simplifies our release and issue management.

What contributors need to do

Use main for most issues

Most merge requests for Drupal Core should now be submitted to the main branch. In general, only backports or issues that do not affect Drupal 12 should be filed against other branches.

Update local checkouts

If you have any local clones of the repository, you should update them:

git fetch origin
git branch -u origin/main main

Update merge requests

Merge requests will be automatically updated to target the main branch this week, so there should not be a need to do this manually. However this retargeting will not include a rebase or adding the main branch to the issue fork, which may be necessary steps. These could be done when other changes are being made to the MR. To make contributors' work easier, MRs that cleanly apply to main will be committed for now, even if the main branch does not exist in the MR.

Update the issue version number

Issues against 11.x on Drupal.org will have the version number updated to main via an automated process within the next few days. Updating issues to point to main in the meantime is OK but does not need to be done manually in bulk.

We appreciate your patience and flexibility as we have worked to implement this important step in modernizing the Drupal core development workflow.