DrupalCon Lands in Japan: Historic Momentum as Drupal Eyes Its Next Chapter

Nara, Japan – Drupal founder Dries Buytaert declared a "historic moment" for the platform at DrupalCon Asia today, pointing to four major initiatives running simultaneously that he says will transform Drupal: Drupal CMS 2.0 (launching early 2026), Drupal Canvas, site templates and marketplace, and the Drupal AI program.

"For 20 years people have been saying Drupal is too hard to build pages with. We are changing that," Dries said during a keynote Q&A with Pamela Barrone, CTO of Technocrat and Product Owner of Drupal CMS.

Drupal AI Summit, Paris | Creating AI systems that belong to everyone

Drupal AI Summit

On 9 December 2025, leaders from across the globe will meet in Paris for the Drupal AI Summit, hosted within the Future of Software Technologies (FOST) conference, the world’s largest federated technology event.

The summit brings together engineers, architects, product leaders, and marketers who are putting AI to use in real systems. It explores what happens when AI meets the open-source values that built Drupal: transparency, community, and long-term thinking.

An invitation to support DrupalCamp Burkina Faso

DrupalCamp Burkina Faso will be hosting its third event from April 24-26, 2026. Previous events have brought entrepreneurs, students, as well as government ministers and national media. This year the Camp is hoping to expand international sponsorship and recruit guest speakers who can help build the skills of the local community.

We want to invite you to participate. 

Showcasing Drupal Excellence: Refreshed Industry Pages and a Renewed Commitment

We've overhauled Drupal's industry landing pages to better showcase the real-world impact of Drupal across critical business sectors. These refreshed pages represent a new, more strategic approach to how we position Drupal for enterprise audiences.

Building Smarter Drupal Sites with the amazee.ai AI Provider

Drupal has always been about flexibility and control. The amazee.ai AI Provider takes that same spirit and applies it to artificial intelligence. It lets you connect a Drupal site to powerful AI models in less than two minutes. No hidden dependencies and no waiting around for credentials to propagate. All of this is free for the first 30 days so you can experiment and use recipes that require LLMs and VectorDBs, and build!

Drupal AI development progress week 41 and 43

This summary will cover three weeks instead of the bi-weekly progress report, and it will be a little bit different. Since we were very busy with the Driesnote for DrupalCon, the release of AI and AI Agents 1.2.0 (yay!), we were mostly focusing on stability fixes.

DrupalCon Vienna also happened and personally for me also PHP Longhorn in Austin. DrupalCon gave us an opportunity to meet in person, regroup and plan ahead for the 2.0 release. So we will cover that as well in the progress reports.

GitLab issue migration: immediate changes

Find out what's changing soon before we start the GitLab issue migration.

Drupal to Enhance Security and Developer Tools thanks to Sovereign Tech Fund Investment

The Drupal Association has received €201,000 from the Sovereign Tech Fund to enhance Drupal's GitLab infrastructure, with a focus on security, testing efficiency, and design tools. This funding will enable critical improvements including completing the migration of Drupal's security issue management system to GitLab, optimizing CI/CD testing across thousands of repositories, and implementing new tools for UX and design contributors.

State of Drupal presentation (October 2025)

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert's blog.

In my DrupalCon Vienna keynote, I talk about how Drupal is adapting to an AI-driven web through AI-enabled visual editing, site templates, autonomous agents, and workflow orchestration.

The web is changing fast. AI now writes content, builds web pages, and answers questions directly, often bypassing websites entirely.

State of Drupal Open University

What started as an idea among a couple of people has rapidly expanded into something with global interest. There are now educators teaching Drupal at higher education and universities, which is amazing. It means new people are being introduced to our beloved open source project.

“What if we could open source the teaching materials themselves, and teach others how to teach Drupal?”

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