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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Canvas Accessibility Checker brings automated accessibility feedback closer to editing, while Entity Connections visualises references between Drupal bundles. Both make problems easier to spot before they become harder to untangle. www.thedroptimes.com/72453/drupal... #Accessibility #DrupalCanvas

Graphic for a Drupal Daily Digest featuring Canvas Accessibility Checker and Entity Connections, with layered webpage mockups and connected content nodes illustrating accessibility checks and entity relationships.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Drupal 12.0.0-beta1 is now available for upgrade testing, requiring PHP 8.5 and accounting for extensions removed from core. Sites should reach Drupal 11.4 or later before testing the upgrade path. www.thedroptimes.com/72619/drupal...

Graphic announcing Drupal 12 beta, with text noting Drupal 11.5, removed extensions, and new platform requirements, alongside an illustration of a block structure breaking apart and reforming into a forward path.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Three early-stage Drupal projects test different parts of the stack: Drupack compresses local setup into one executable, ECA Tool connects automation with Tool API, and Drupal Live Update adds channel-based browser updates. www.thedroptimes.com/72429/drupal... #Drupal #ECA #DeveloperTools

Illustration showing Drupal tooling breaking through barriers, with icons representing local setup, workflow automation, and live page updates beneath text introducing Drupack, ECA Tool, ECA, Tool API, and Drupal Live Update.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Apache Iggy 0.9.0 moves VSR clustering into the standard server and introduces the project’s first native PHP SDK. The release also marks Iggy’s first version as an Apache top-level project. www.thedroptimes.com/72445/apache... #ApacheIggy #PHP #OpenSource

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Apache Iggy 0.9.0 Adds VSR Clustering and Native PHP SDK

Iggy’s experimental clustering path has become part of the standard server, but existing deployments face a breaking upgrade with incompatible storage and wire formats.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bento Showcase brings image-aware visual hierarchy to Drupal Views, adapting card sizes and layouts to the number and shape of available images. The 1.0.0 release now makes that approach available as a stable contrib module. www.thedroptimes.com/72381/bento-... #Drupal #DrupalViews #OpenSource

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Bento Showcase Brings Visual Hierarchy to Drupal Views

A Drupal View does not have to end as a row of equal cards. Bento Showcase tests how far sorting, promotion, and image treatment can carry a structured content collection toward a composed page.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Recent Drupal AI releases add Gemini embedding options, permission-aware Mautic tools and fixes for AI-assisted Views configuration. Teams may need to rebuild indexes, review agent permissions or keep beta Views changes under close review. www.thedroptimes.com/72595/drupal... #Drupal #DrupalAI #AI

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Drupal AI Updates: Gemini Provider, AI Mautic and AI Agents Views

Not every Drupal AI update calls for the same response. Recent releases may require teams to rebuild search indexes, update agent configuration or keep experimental Views changes under close human rev...

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Drupal ad measurement can now span both browser and server paths, making consent handling harder to test in one place. Recent module updates highlight why teams should verify that consent decisions reach every reporting channel. www.thedroptimes.com/72567/drupal... #Drupal #Privacy #Consent

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Drupal Consent Tracking Across Browser and Server Ads

A cookie banner can stop a browser pixel while a backend conversion call follows a different path. Three Drupal releases show where that gap can appear and what site teams need to test.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 2026 International Splash Awards named Drupal projects across government, healthcare, publishing, commerce, AI and more. Organisers reported 40% more submissions than in 2025. www.thedroptimes.com/72599/splash... #Drupal #SplashAwards #DrupalCon

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Splash Awards 2026 Name Winning Drupal Projects in Rotterdam

The winning projects span AI, public services, publishing, education, healthcare, commerce and other areas of Drupal implementation.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Antonella Severo, Nikita Aswani and Rachel Lawson are the 2026 Women in Drupal Award winners. This year, the programme replaced its previous categories with one award recognising contribution and impact across Drupal. www.thedroptimes.com/72579/2026-w... #Drupal #DrupalCon #WomenInDrupal

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2026 Women in Drupal Award Winners Announced at DrupalCon Rotterdam

A DrupalCon Rotterdam ceremony added three recipients to the five-year programme recognising women across the Drupal ecosystem.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Drupal work in government extends well beyond building and maintaining CMS sites. Public-sector roles increasingly intersect with architecture, accessibility, security, governance and integration. www.thedroptimes.com/72420/public... #Drupal #GovTech #PublicSector

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Public-Sector Drupal Roles Extend Beyond CMS Development

A Drupal job title can conceal a much wider engineering remit in government work. The platform stays central, but the surrounding responsibilities span much more of the application lifecycle.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Acquia spent less on its DrupalCon Rotterdam booth so it could put $50,000 toward Drupal. Shawn Perritt says the cardboard stand is also a challenge to sponsors, agencies, hosting providers and competitors to rethink contribution. www.thedroptimes.com/72580/acquia... #Drupal #DrupalCon #OpenSource

Social graphic for a story about Acquia reducing its DrupalCon Rotterdam booth spending and donating $50,000 to Drupal.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🏆 Women in Drupal Awards Congratulations to Rachel Lawson for winning the Women in Drupal Awards at DrupalCon Europe Rotterdam 2026! 🎉 #WomenInDrupal #DrupalConRotterdam #DrupalCon

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🏆 Women in Drupal Awards Congratulations to Nikita Aswani for winning the Women in Drupal Awards at DrupalCon Europe Rotterdam 2026! 🎉 #WomenInDrupal #DrupalConRotterdam #DrupalCon

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🏆 Women in Drupal Awards Congratulations to Antonella Severo for winning the Women in Drupal Awards at DrupalCon Europe Rotterdam 2026! 🎉 #WomenInDrupal #DrupalConRotterdam #DrupalCon

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FlowDrop 2.6.0 marks the first stable 2.x release, adding AI-assisted workflow editing alongside runtime, storage and retention improvements. To upgrade from 1.x, you must go through 1.6.0 first. www.thedroptimes.com/72403/flowdr... #Drupal #FlowDrop #Automation

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FlowDrop 2.6 Stable Adds AI Workflow Editing for Drupal

Teams with long-running FlowDrop installations now get a clearer view of accumulated execution history, but version 2.6 stops at reporting rather than automatic deletion.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A study of 1,347 responding U.S. government .gov domains identified Drupal on 424 sites. It also found 12 public signals associated with Drupal 7, 8 or 9, though those signals do not show whether commercial security coverage is in place. www.thedroptimes.com/72396/drupal... #Drupal #GovTech

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Study Measures Performance and Drupal Versions Across 424 Government Sites

Public signals can indicate an end-of-life Drupal release without showing whether a site receives commercial security coverage. That distinction shapes how the study's version findings should be read.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jürgen Haas proposes one canvas for Drupal workflows across ECA, Maestro, FlowDrop and other automation systems, with the platform choosing which engine runs each step. The unified interface does not exist yet. www.thedroptimes.com/72358/jurgen-h…

Jürgen Haas Proposes One UI for Drupal Orchestration

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI Automators Agent brings configured AI Agents into Drupal field automation, adding tool use, retrieval and multi-step execution for supported text fields. www.thedroptimes.com/72359/ai-autom… #DrupalAI #AI

AI Automators Agent Brings AI Agents Into Drupal Field Automation

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

DrupalCon Rotterdam speakers ask what happens after a demo works: can teams trace failures, verify AI answers, control costs, and maintain the system? Sessions span observable AI, HTMX, video architecture, and community sustainability. www.thedroptimes.com/72493/rotter... #DrupalCon #DrupalAI

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 social card featuring Shibin Devadas Kakanat, Niels Aers, Ulla Koho, Tomi Mikola, Wouter De Bruycker, Ruturaj Chaubey, David Pacassi Torrico, and Nikita Aswani, with the headline “When ‘It Works’ Isn’t Enough” and a focus on AI reliability, trusted answers, maintainable systems, and sustainable communities.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DrupalCon Rotterdam speakers trace one theme across migration, personalisation, and enterprise scale: automation works best when content models, governance, maintainability, and meaningful measurement come first. www.thedroptimes.com/72454/rotter... #Drupal #DrupalCon #DrupalAI #Personalisation

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 social card featuring Raffaele Chiocca, Vijaya Chandran Mani, Anthony Bojocan, Len Swaneveld, Mikaela Kindstedt, Sanna Kramsi, Wolfgang Ziegler, Ulka Neil, and Anubhav Gupta, with the headline “From Migration to AI: Structuring Drupal for Scale.”

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DrupalCon Rotterdam sessions put human review at the centre of AI-assisted workflows. Speakers cover Workspaces, agentic editorial approval, accessibility testing, Editoria11y, and constrained AI answers. www.thedroptimes.com/72428/rotter... #Drupal #DrupalCon #DrupalAI #Accessibility

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 social card featuring Ajit Shinde, Adam Nagy, Daniel Angelov, Junaid Masoodi, John Jameson, Christopher Torgalson, and Antonella Picarella, highlighting human judgement in Drupal automation, accessibility, Workspaces, and AI-assisted workflows.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gina Plat and Teun van der Vorm argue digital sovereignty starts with a dependency map: know suppliers, exit costs, and switching time before procurement. Open standards, portability, and open source then become practical levers. www.thedroptimes.com/interview/72... #DigitalSovereignty #GovTech

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 interview card featuring Gina Plat and Teun van der Vorm, with the headline “Open Source, Exit Costs and Government Control” and a focus on practical steps towards digital sovereignty.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Enterprise Drupal AI Summit speakers will bring production cases to Rotterdam focused on source grounding, governed context, sovereignty, and human oversight—not model capability alone. www.thedroptimes.com/72291/enterpri… #Drupal

Enterprise AI Summit Speakers Preview Governed Drupal AI Cases in Rotterdam

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drupal published 36 contrib security advisories across 16 projects; 20 affect Webform. A Critical Webform RCE depends on a specific configuration. Update Webform 6.2.x to 6.2.12 or 6.3.x to 6.3.1. www.thedroptimes.com/72457/drupal-s…

Drupal Security Team Publishes 36 Contributed-Project Advisories, Including Critical Webform RCE

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Drupal 12.0.0-beta1 missed its scheduled September release week, with several release-preparation tasks still being closed out. No revised beta date is published, while November RC1 and December stable targets remain unchanged. bit.ly/4dpg2yY #Drupal #Drupal12 #DrupalCore #OpenSource

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Four reusable tender clauses help councils test whether suppliers support shared development, transparent roadmaps, customer influence, open standards, and reusable platforms. Craig Barker developed the wording shared by Will Callaghan. bit.ly/4AlOIeW #LocalGovDrupal #Procurement #GovTech

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Reusable Tender Clauses Address Council Collaboration in Procurement

The clauses turn broad calls for council collaboration into questions that suppliers can be asked during procurement.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Werkzaak Rivierenland is tendering for a successor to its current Drupal website, but Drupal remains eligible. The new platform must use a mature open-source CMS, reduce custom complexity, and remain transferable between suppliers. bit.ly/4y5CVzS #Drupal #OpenSource #GovTech #Procurement

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Werkzaak Rivierenland Opens Tender for Successor to Drupal Website

A public-sector Drupal owner is putting custom work, editorial autonomy and supplier independence at the centre of its next CMS decision.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A rebuilt Drupal architecture separates externally managed data objects from the nodes presenting them. Imports can update source data without overwriting page titles, publishing state, metadata, or layouts. bit.ly/4dnGN6S #Drupal #DrupalArchitecture #ContentModeling #LayoutBuilder

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Drupal Rebuild Separates Data Objects From Editorial Pages

A single node is convenient until source-owned data and Drupal-owned presentation begin following different rules.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Native Observability 2.0.0 replaces its fixed 10% overhead estimate with measurements taken on each Drupal installation. A new Drush command compares tracing on and off to report the module’s actual runtime cost. bit.ly/3SWqhnz #Drupal #Observability #DrupalModules #Performance

TDT Discover Drupal card asks how much observability costs a Drupal site, highlighting Native Observability 2.0.0’s site-specific capture-on and capture-off overhead measurement workflow.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Drupal core security updates fix a CKEditor 5 XSS vulnerability. A user who can create or edit content may target someone who later opens it through CKEditor, including privileged administrators. Update to 10.6.17, 11.3.17, or 11.4.7. bit.ly/4hxDe0j #DrupalSecurity #CKEditor #WebSecurity

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Drupal Core Security Update Fixes CKEditor XSS in Content Editing Workflow

Sites on Drupal 10.5.x and Drupal 11.2.x or earlier are outside security coverage, making a move to a supported branch part of the response.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Revision Graph 4.0.0 records which Drupal revision each new save came from, making reverts and multilingual branches more reliable. Existing history remains inferred rather than guessed retroactively. bit.ly/4hxAMa7 #Drupal #DrupalModules #ContentGovernance #Drupal11

TDT Discover Drupal card on Revision Graph 4.0.0, showing recorded parentage for new revisions, inferred relationships for older history, and clearer multilingual revision state in Drupal 11 and 12.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Researcher Matan Kotick says Claude found and validated a Critical SQL injection in the amazee[.]ai Private AI Provider in about ten minutes. Drupal’s advisory confirms CVE-2026-87936 and the affected code path. bit.ly/4haV1cf #Drupal #DrupalSecurity #Claude #DrupalAI

TDT security card asks “How Far Did Claude Get In Ten Minutes?” and says it did not stop at finding vulnerable code, in an analysis of Drupal advisory SA-CONTRIB-2026-134 and its fixes.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI Context 1.0.0-beta5 expands governed context beyond agents. Automators and CKEditor AI tools can now consume the same centrally managed context, with configurable scopes and selection rules. bit.ly/4y6gdYk #Drupal #DrupalAI #AIContext #CKEditor

TDT Discover Drupal card on AI Context 1.0.0-beta5, covering consumer support for automators and CKEditor, plus tighter controls for selection, scope, roles, limits, and context handling.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI Integration - ECA 1.0.0 is now stable, exposing chat, moderation, embeddings, translation, media generation, and other AI operations as ECA actions. It replaces the earlier AI-ECA integrations. bit.ly/4h0lHha #Drupal #DrupalAI #ECA #Automation

TDT Discover Drupal card on AI Integration - ECA 1.0.0, showing one stable bridge for Drupal AI and ECA workflows, with AI actions, modeler assistance, and a clearer integration path.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Drupal Canvas 1.11 replaces global regions with editable, theme-independent full-page templates. Sites can control headers, navigation, footers, and content within one reusable Canvas structure. bit.ly/3USLFuw #Drupal #DrupalCanvas #SiteBuilding #Drupal11

TDT Discover Drupal card for Canvas 1.11 asking what changes when the page shell stops depending on the theme, with artwork showing a webpage separated from its underlying layout structure.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Drupal 11.5 adds a Views post-save API so plugins can request route rebuilds and discovery-cache clearing only when needed. The longstanding views_invalidate_cache() helper is now deprecated. bit.ly/4gVKu62 #Drupal #Drupal11 #DrupalCore #DrupalDevelopment

TDT Discover Drupal card on Drupal 11.5, highlighting a new Views post-save API that makes route rebuilds more selective and deprecates views_invalidate_cache() for module developers.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jacob Rockowitz proposes “Drupal mode”: an AI agent shaped by Drupal’s code, community values, and responsible-use expectations. The concept connects with Inside AI and Outside AI, but it is not a shipped feature. bit.ly/4rcUMCe #Drupal #DrupalAI #AIAgents #OpenSource

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Jacob Rockowitz Explores ‘Drupal Mode’ for AI Agents

Rockowitz’s experience with AI coding tools raises a broader question about whether an agent could understand Drupal’s code while reflecting the community’s values.

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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

AI Disclosure 1.0.0-alpha2 adds Drupal tools for recording AI involvement, human review, editorial responsibility, and reader-facing labels under Article 50 workflows. It does not certify compliance. bit.ly/4hfiMjz #Drupal #DrupalAI #EUAIAct #OpenSource

TDT Discover Drupal card on AI Disclosure 1.0.0-alpha2, highlighting Article 50 workflows, EU icons, audit trails, human review, and machine-readable disclosure metadata for Drupal sites.

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