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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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Compiled and edited with assistance from Claude Code.

30 Apr 2026 12:00am GMT

Breakouts Day 2026 was the third edition of W3C's fully remote community driven information sharing event. In this post we summarize key aspects of the event.

14 Apr 2026 11:03am GMT

Earlier this month, the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) gathered in London for a multi-day face-to-face meeting. While the TAG meets regularly online, these in-person sessions remain an important part of how the group builds shared understanding, tackles complex architectural questions, and welcomes new members into the work.

03 Apr 2026 12:00am GMT

Read more about the AB's current thinking on using Large Language Models (LLMs) in the standards process.

31 Mar 2026 8:18pm GMT

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

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

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

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 […]

The post 7 Types of Article Headlines: Craft the Perfect Title Every Time first appeared on Smiley Cat.

29 May 2023 10:20pm GMT

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, […]

The post 5 Product Management Myths You Need to Stop Believing first appeared on Smiley Cat.

09 Apr 2023 5:28pm GMT

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 […]

The post The Key Strengths of the Best Product Managers first appeared on Smiley Cat.

11 Dec 2022 4:43pm 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