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Provider costs, agent behaviour and multilingual support are becoming practical governance questions for Drupal sites adopting AI workflows. In written responses facilitated by the DrupalCamp Tokyo 2026 organisers, James Abrahams told The DropTimes that Drupal AI is relying on pluggable governance, Drupal CMS-aligned work, outside-in agent workflows and collaboration with Symfony AI. His answers frame Drupal’s AI direction around maintainability, structured site building and multilingual production readiness rather than isolated feature development.

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AI makes execution cheap. It makes context, coordination, governance and sovereignty more valuable.

The CMS is being unbundled into a control plane and an execution plane. Follow that logic across the full customer experience and something else becomes visible: the DXP is being rebundled as the shared control plane for an organisation’s digital promise.

The CMS is unbundling. The DXP is rebundling.

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DrupalCon Rotterdam’s first Government Summit has opened its call for public-sector session proposals ahead of the one-day event on Monday 28 September 2026. The summit will bring local, national, and European public administrations together around shared digital infrastructure, open source reuse, digital sovereignty, and Drupal-based service delivery. Organisers are seeking case studies, demonstrations, workshops, and facilitated discussions, with submissions closing on Monday 29 June 2026 and selected participants receiving complimentary access to the summit.

Discover how we streamlined the donation process and reduced manual work for fundraiser administrators.

DrupalCon Europe 2026 Rotterdam — Technical Blog Series | Post #1 of 10

Published as part of the "Drupal in Rotterdam" technical series ahead of DrupalCon Europe 2026, taking place 28 September – 1 October at Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre WTC Rotterdam.

For years, the Drupal onboarding experience looked the same: install core, hunt for contributed modules, manually enable features, export configuration, repeat. Installation profiles and distributions tried to solve this, but they were rigid, opinionated, and notoriously painful to maintain over time.

That era is over.

Drupal CMS 2.x released on 28 January 2026 and described by the Drupal Association as the biggest evolution in the platform's 25-year history fundamentally rewrites the site-building playbook. The engine behind it is Recipes: a composable, YAML-driven system for packaging and applying discrete units of functionality to any Drupal site, at any point in its lifecycle.

By the time DrupalCon Rotterdam opens in September 2026, Recipes will be the dominant site-building paradigm in the Drupal ecosystem. This post is your technical foundation.

What Changed and Why It Matters

Before Drupal CMS, when you needed a blog on a Drupal site you would install a contributed theme, wire up a content type, create a view, configure URL aliases, set up metatags — at least a dozen manual steps. If you wanted to replicate that setup on a second site, you either exported configuration (hoping it was portable) or started over.

Drupal Recipes solve this with a single command.

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We Love To Hear Your Support Questions!

As you know and have experienced personally, AI has been replacing human interaction in support situations, and in some cases doing a decent job. It generally does a good job with questions about DDEV.

But getting answers to questions is not the only purpose of support. It's also a great way to communicate problems and ambiguities to project maintainers.

We want you to ask us questions! We live for your questions. We miss the fact that you've been absent from Discord, #ddev in Drupal Slack, and the issue queue. When you ask, it helps us to understand what your struggles are and how DDEV can get better. DDEV's strength has always been the community's willingness to engage and share their needs and frictions and hopes for the project.

As you know, Stack Overflow has been displaced by AI. There aren't new answers going up there, because people use the AI answers and don't improve anything for the future. But DDEV is not static and its future depends on you and your needs. If we don't hear you ask about those, we can't react to your experience.

Join us in all the support channels!

Upsun Completes DDEV Trademark Transfer

Upsun has finished transferring the DDEV trademark to the DDEV Foundation — a milestone for the DDEV project's long-term independence and health. This is a generous and important step for DDEV. (At one time before Upsun/Platform's involvement, we were ready to fork and rename the project due to trademark issues.) Read our announcement↗ and see Upsun's generous response↗ as well.

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Views is one of the most important modules in Drupal. After the field system, it is the tool you reach for most often as a site builder. You use it to build content listings, create blocks, power admin screens, and feed components into Drupal Canvas.

In the video above, you’ll learn how to build a Views page, customize fields with image styles and rewrite tokens, expose filters and sorts, configure pagers and infinite scroll, expose a view block as a Canvas component, and create a backend admin page.

LocalGov Drupal Camp 2026

LocalGov Drupal Camp 2026 was held on 11th and 12th June in the city of Sheffield in the north of England. I drove over the Pennines from my home in Cheshire to attend the camp for the two days.

LocalGov Drupal, in case you weren't aware, is a Drupal distribution that is set up in a way that makes it easy for councils to publish their content. Since it's built on Drupal the sites can also make use of the many Drupal modules available. There are also lots of additional LocalGov Drupal modules that integrate with waste collection systems, bus timetables, election results, and many more.

Last year, LocalGov Drupal was being used by 57 council websites across the UK. This year, that figure has jumped to 73! A fantastic achievement, with that number only set to get bigger.

The camp itself consisted of a Wednesday night social night, a day of talks and other sessions, followed by a day of workshops and sprints.

Wednesday Night

The social on Wednesday night was held at the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield city centre. On entry we got a couple of free drinks, and there was plenty of pizza to go around (perhaps too much pizza!).

This was amazing venue to have a social! After spending a while catching up and chatting with lots people we went into the museum itself and played some games for a while. 4 player Pacman and Ultimate Chicken Horse were particular favourites from the evening.

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