DrupalCon North America 2021: Keynote speakers making a positive impact in open source and beyond

This year’s DrupalCon North America 2021 keynotes highlight the power of the global Drupal community to make a difference in some of the most crucial issues of our time and the future of digital experiences. Register today.

Contributing to Drupal: A ‘someday’ hopeful makes his first Core commit with community help

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Pekens Antoine (pekens, pictured here) was doing research on content management systems while running a digital marketing agency, and was exploring Drupal, which he viewed as a “well-thought-out system being developed by a lot of smart people,” and with that he “wasn’t sure if a contribution from myself could make a difference.”

Drupal 11.3.0 is now available

The third feature release of Drupal 11 is here with the biggest performance boost in a decade. Serve 26-33% more requests with the same database load. New native HTMX support enables rich UX with up to 71% less JavaScript. Plus, enjoy the new stable Navigation module, improved CKEditor content editing, native content export, and cleaner OOP hooks for themes.

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

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.

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.

A WordPress to Drupal CMS migration for DamFailures

damfailures website on a laptop screen and a mobile device screen

DamFailures.org approached Specbee with a familiar challenge - Security concerns and maintenance headaches on WordPress. They needed something more stable, but still friendly for their marketing and content teams. So, we introduced them to the new Drupal CMS. And what did it result in? Their performance scores shot up from 52 to 98, the content team got editing right away, and the entire project was wrapped up in just six weeks!

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