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Drupal 11.3.0: Biggest performance boost in a decade

By catch on

Drupal 11.3 includes a number of significant performance improvements, altogether making it the most significant step forward for Drupal performance in the last 10 years (since the Drupal 8.0.0 release).

These improvements have been driven by enhancements to Drupal's render and caching layers in 11.2.x, notably taking advantage of Fibers, a new PHP feature added in PHP 8.1. By rendering more parts of the page in placeholders, we have enabled similar database and cache operations that used to occur individually to be combined, with particular improvements in path alias and entity loading. We have also learned from Drupal's automated performance testing framework, allowing us to identify and execute several optimizations during Drupal's hook and field discovery processes, to significantly reduce database and cache i/o, and memory usage on cold caches.

On the front end we have converted Drupal's BigPipe implementation to use HTMX, reducing JavaScript weight significantly. We also intercept placeholders with warm render caches prior to BigPipe replacement, so that BigPipe's JavaScript is not loaded at all on requests that will be served quickly without it, allowing BigPipe to be used more widely for the requests that do need it. These changes may also allow us to enable BigPipe for anonymous site visitors in a future release.

 

Native HTMX in Drupal 11.3.0: Rich UX with up to 71% less JavaScript

By fathershawn on

Drupal developers always face the dilemma of building classic multi-page applications or headless solutions with a modern JavaScript stack. Especially when they need to build UIs that feel fast and are highly reactive. While there were some Drupal specific solutions for parts of this need (Form State API, AJAX API and BigPipe), these were dated, only solving very specific use cases and comparatively heavy in implementation.

HTMX is a tiny, dependency-free, and extensible JavaScript library that allows you to access modern browser features directly from HTML, rather than using extensive amounts of JavaScript. It essentially enables you to use HTML to make AJAX requests, CSS transitions, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events (SSE) directly.

As a replacement for Drupal's mostly home grown solutions, this reduced the loaded JavaScript size by up to 71% for browser-server interactions, including HTML streaming with BigPipe. While enabling a whole set of new functionality at the same time!

 

GitLab CI: Drupal's strategy to empower a whole ecosystem

By fjgarlin on

In this post, we share our CI strategy for all Drupal contributed modules. We believe that other large open-source projects may want to adopt or learn from the way we implemented a solution to centrally-manage CI while still allowing per-project customization.

Reflections from the Drupal AI Summit in Paris

By witzevds on

As part of the larger apidays / FOST conference, we held the inaugural Drupal AI Summit designed specifically for end customers. Despite a compressed four-week organization window and a marketing campaign that ran for only three weeks, the event was oversubscribed with 170+ registered attendees.

Attention is on Drupal AI

The summit attracted a diverse mix of end users, agencies, and AI specialists from the UK, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and beyond. We saw heavy representation from Higher Education, Government, Manufacturing, and Enterprise sectors.

Why the sudden surge in interest?

DrupalCon Nara 2025: The AI Sessions You Should Watch

By pdjohnson on

DrupalCon Nara brought together the Drupal community in beautiful Japan a couple of weeks back, and the AI track delivered something valuable: practical sessions showing how teams are using AI to solve real problems right now. This post by Witze Van der Straeten highlights seven presentations well worth watching.

Vincenzo speaking in Nara

Drupal security advisories are now available in OSV database

By Drupal Security Team on

One of the key parts of keeping a website secure is making sure you have updated to incorporate security updates. Today, we're excited to share that Drupal's security information will be available in a new channel, the OSV database, that has some benefits compared to existing tools. This is another large step forward in making it easier for Drupal sites to stay secure.

AI at BADCamp 2025

By matthews on

Guest Blog Post by Luke McCormick

BADCamp, the Bay Area Drupal Camp, has been a Drupal gathering in the Bay Area most years since 2007. This year’s BADCamp had a particular focus on artificial intelligence. There were many exciting things to see and hear about AI, and the overall programme reflected a blend of practical tooling, architecture, and community direction.

Drupal Canvas is Now Available: Inside Drupal's New Visual Page Builder

By Drupal on

For years, Drupal has been the platform of choice for organizations that need serious digital capabilities—think universities managing millions of pages, government agencies with complex workflows, and Fortune 500 companies running mission-critical websites. The power is undeniable, but there's always been a catch: you needed technical expertise to unlock it.

Understanding real Drupal users with privacy-first telemetry

By hestenet on

Many of the current strategic initiatives in Drupal are based on the principle of user-centered design. When executed well, this means that the needs, goals, and feedback of the end-user are part of the decision making process at every step of development. 

Call for Makers: 2026 Aaron Winborn Award Design

By markie on

The Drupal Community Working Group is seeking a community member or organization to design and create the Aaron Winborn Award for 2026.

The award at the cliffs
2020 award created by Bo Shipley

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