27 Oct 2026
Drupal.org aggregator
Dynamosys Insights: Your First Drupal AI Workflow: Draft Replies to Website Inquiries
Turn Drupal website inquiries into proposed email replies your team can review. This guide explains how Webform, ECA, and Drupal's AI framework work together, with practical setup steps and checks before launch.
27 Oct 2026 5:10pm GMT
Drupal AI Initiative: Webinar: Can AI help your website guide people to their next step? Join us October 29, 2026
Your website may have the information people need. But the way they discover and evaluate their options is changing, with AI-generated answers becoming part of the journey.
EAB's survey of more than 5,000 U.S. high school students, conducted in late 2025 and published in February 2026, 46% reported using AI tools during their college search, up from 26% in spring 2025. A separate EAB survey published in August 2026 found that 57% of more than 2,500 U.S. parents surveyed had used AI to evaluate colleges and compare options for their children.
Together, these findings suggest that students and families are adding conversational tools to the ways they research universities. For institutions, that raises a practical question: could a more guided experience also help people make sense of the information on their own websites?
Growing adoption doesn't mean trust is guaranteed. Pew Research Center found that 66% of U.S. adults were extremely or very concerned about people getting inaccurate information from AI. For institutions exploring AI-assisted guidance, that makes accuracy, transparency, and testing with real users central to the experience.
For Higher Education institutions, this raises a practical question: could a more guided experience help students and families make sense of institutional information while preserving accuracy, trust, and control?
On October 29, 2026, at 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm GMT, join James Hall, Product Lead for Websites at Everyone TV, as he chats with Joe Kwan of the University of Waterloo, and John Tran, CTO at ImageX about "Navigation to Guidance Using AI to Improve Digital Experiences". They'll share a behind-the-scenes look at an AI-powered admissions advisor proof of concept, with practical lessons for anyone exploring where AI could improve a digital experience.
Start with the questions people are trying to answer
The University of Waterloo and ImageX began by working with Waterloo's graduate and undergraduate admissions teams to understand the student journey.
Where were students getting stuck? Which questions came up repeatedly? Where did search and navigation fall short? And when did students need guidance from a person?
Those conversations shaped a conversational prototype designed to help prospective students find trusted information, compare programs, understand requirements, and navigate next steps.
The project offers a useful starting point for other organizations: identify a specific moment where people struggle, then explore whether AI could help. That gives teams a concrete problem to investigate and a clearer basis for deciding whether to invest further.
Find out what users actually think
A working prototype is only part of the story. The team also tested the experience directly with prospective students. Research showed strong interest in a more conversational way to explore university information. It also surfaced important considerations around privacy, tone, usability, content quality, transparency, and trust.
The webinar will explore what the team learned through that testing and where human guidance remains essential.
The session will focus on discovery, prototyping, and user research, and what those stages can help an organization understand before moving toward production.
Where Drupal fits
An AI-assisted experience raises questions about the information behind it: Where does it come from? Who maintains it? How is it reviewed? And what happens when it changes?
For the Drupal community, the session will explore the role Drupal can play as the governed content foundation behind these experiences, connecting AI assistance to institutional information that an organization manages and trusts. For marketing, digital, and service leaders, the broader question is equally relevant: how can you make information easier to use while retaining oversight of its quality and accuracy?
You don't need to work with Drupal or in higher education to benefit from the discussion. The approach is relevant to teams considering AI for complex information journeys across nonprofits, public services, and businesses.
What you'll take away
Join the webinar to explore:
- How discovery with internal teams can uncover AI use cases worth investigating.
- What prospective students thought about using AI to explore university information.
- What user testing revealed about trust, privacy, tone, transparency, and usability.
- Where human guidance remains essential.
- How governed content can support AI-assisted experiences.
- How to validate an idea with real users before moving toward production.
Whether you're a Drupal practitioner, a higher education leader, or someone responsible for a complex website, this session offers a practical example of moving from an AI idea to an experience you can test and evaluate.
Join James Hall, John Tran and Joe Kwan on October 29, 2026, at 9:30 am PT / 12:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm GMT for From Navigation to Guidance Using AI to Improve Digital Experiences.
27 Oct 2026 4:39pm GMT
Jacob Rockowitz: Vibing Drupal: Using AI to switch between multiple versions of Drupal core
With Drupal 12 on the horizon and Drupal 10 reaching end of life in December, I'm facing two challenges. First, I need to upgrade my current site from Drupal 10 to Drupal 11. Second, I need to update my contributed modules to support Drupal 12, while still supporting Drupal 10. Frankly, I am more anxious about upgrading to Drupal 11 and supporting Drupal 12 than about integrating AI into my workflow.
Upgrading to Drupal 11
Upgrading to Drupal 11 has gotten easier over the years thanks to tools such as Drupal Rector, the Drupal Lenient Composer Plugin, the Upgrade Status module, and the Project Update Bot. Still, if you rely on contrib and custom modules, you'll have a lot to tweak and test.
I've done a "big-bang" upgrade via a dedicated branch, using the Lenient plugin and the Project Update Bot's patches for contrib modules, and fixing deprecations in custom code with Drupal Rector. There were always a few rough edges. Ideally, I'd like to gradually test my upgrade to Drupal 11 while continuing to support Drupal 10 in the same codebase using the DeprecationHelper.
As a maintainer of a contributed module, I face a slightly different challenge: supporting Drupal 12, 11, and 10.
Supporting Drupal 10, 11, and 12
As a maintainer of multiple contributed modules, I need to test them across previous, current, and next Drupal versions. I typically use dedicated DDEV instances for each Drupal version. I've started using Git worktrees to maintain a single Drupal playground with branches for each Drupal version. Still, maintaining a composer.json file that targets different Drupal versions across branches is challenging because it...Read More
27 Oct 2026 12:47pm GMT
W3C - Blog
W3C launches second pilot of program to support Open Source projects
In this blog post, Ian Jacobs, Strategy Team, introduces the second pilot of the W3C Open Source program: a polyfill for the WebMCP API. WebMCP is a new JavaScript interface that allows web developers to expose their web application functionality as "tools".
27 Oct 2026 11:50am GMT
21 Oct 2026
W3C - Blog
Web of Things Working Group recharter: New momentum for IoT interoperability
The Web of Things (WoT) Working Group rechartered for two years to improve IoT interoperability and address physical AI use cases. WoT counteracts fragmentation in IoT by providing building blocks that enable seamless device integration across smart buildings, industrial automation, and energy management. Drawing on Plugfest insights, the new charter focuses on enhancing Thing Description expressiveness, introducing protocol bindings, and guiding AI agents.
21 Oct 2026 9:05am GMT
19 Oct 2026
W3C - Blog
Improved thread navigation in W3C's mailing list archives
A new feature is available in W3C's mailing list archives, aiming to make it easier to read and navigate message threads.
19 Oct 2026 9:03am GMT
18 Jan 2026
Official jQuery Blog
jQuery 4.0.0
On January 14, 2006, John Resig introduced a JavaScript library called jQuery at BarCamp in New York City. Now, 20 years later, the jQuery team is happy to announce the final release of jQuery 4.0.0. After a long development cycle and several pre-releases, jQuery 4.0.0 brings many improvements and modernizations. It is the first major … Continue reading
18 Jan 2026 12:29am GMT
11 Aug 2025
Official jQuery Blog
jQuery 4.0.0 Release Candidate 1
It's here! Almost. jQuery 4.0.0-rc.1 is now available. It's our way of saying, "we think this is ready; now poke it with many sticks". If nothing is found that requires a second release candidate, jQuery 4.0.0 final will follow. Please try out this release and let us know if you encounter any issues. A 4.0 … Continue reading
11 Aug 2025 5:35pm GMT
17 Jul 2024
Official jQuery Blog
Second Beta of jQuery 4.0.0
Last February, we released the first beta of jQuery 4.0.0. We're now ready to release a second, and we expect a release candidate to come soon™. This release comes with a major rewrite to jQuery's testing infrastructure, which removed all deprecated or under-supported dependencies. But the main change that warranted a second beta was a … Continue reading
17 Jul 2024 2:03pm GMT
29 May 2023
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog
7 Types of Article Headlines: Craft the Perfect Title Every Time
When it comes to crafting an article, the headline is crucial for grabbing the reader's attention and enticing them to read further. In this post, I'll explore the 7 types of article headlines and provide examples for each using the subjects of product management, user experience design, and search engine optimization. 1. The Know-it-All The […]
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29 May 2023 10:20pm GMT
09 Apr 2023
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog
5 Product Management Myths You Need to Stop Believing
Product management is one of the most exciting and rewarding careers in the tech world. But it's also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented. There are many myths and misconceptions that cloud the reality of what product managers do, how they do it, and what skills they need to succeed. In this blog post, […]
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09 Apr 2023 5:28pm GMT
11 Dec 2022
Smiley Cat: Christian Watson's Web Design Blog
The Key Strengths of the Best Product Managers
The role of a product manager is crucial to the success of any product. They are responsible for managing the entire product life cycle, from conceptualization to launch and beyond. A product manager must possess a unique blend of skills and qualities to be effective in their role. Strong strategic thinking A product manager must […]
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11 Dec 2022 4:43pm GMT