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Who sponsors Drupal development? (2020-2021 edition)

By Dries on 25 October 2021

For the past few years, I've examined Drupal.org's contribution data to understand how the Drupal project works. Who develops Drupal? How diverse is the Drupal community? How much of Drupal's maintenance and innovation is sponsored? Where do sponsorships come from?

Compared to last year, we have fewer contributions and fewer contributors. I believe this is the result of COVID-19, where we are in the Drupal Super Cycle, and many Drupal shops being "too busy growing".

Despite a slowdown in contribution, it's amazing to see that just in the last year, Drupal welcomed more than 7,000 individual contributors and over 1,100 corporate contributors.

All of that, and more, is explained in my report. Check it out!

State of Drupal presentation (October 2021)

By Dries on 14 October 2021

In good tradition, Dries Buytaert delivered his State of Drupal keynote at DrupalCon Europe 2021. Learn more!

Drupal 9.2.0 is available

By Gábor Hojtsy on 16 June 2021

The second feature release of Drupal 9 helps keep your site even more secure, and comes with increased visitor privacy protection, improved migration tools from Drupal 7, enhancements to the Olivero frontend theme and early support for the WebP image format.

Drupal 9.1.0 is available

By Gábor Hojtsy on 2 December 2020

The first feature release of Drupal 9 includes the new experimental Olivero frontend theme and various additions to the Claro administration theme. Installer performance is improved 20% and full Composer 2 and PHP 8 support is available. Images with known dimensions are set to lazy-load by default to improve frontend performance.

Drupal in COVID-19 Series: Podcasting for Brown Advisory

By rachel_norfolk on 6 October 2020

Continuing again with our series of articles highlighting ways that the Drupal software and its community are building solutions to help combat the effect of COVID-19, today we hear from Justin Emond of Third and Grove. Here, they describe their project for Brown Advisory.

A successful Google Summer of Code – thanks to our student, mentors and Drupal community!

By rachel_norfolk on 23 September 2020

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 3 month programming project during their break from school or college. In the 16th year of the program, 1106 students from 65 countries have successfully completed Google Summer of Code in 2020, including Drupal!

State of Drupal presentation (July 2020)

By Dries on 21 July 2020

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

DrupalCon Global Driesnote presentation

Last week, Drupalists from around the world gathered for DrupalCon Global. This DrupalCon was the first ever virtual event of this scale for the Drupal community.

Drupal 10 target release date and Drupal 9 end-of-life

By Dries on 17 July 2020

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

We are targeting to release Drupal 10 around June 2022. That is less than two years from today!

The first ever virtual DrupalCon

By Dries on 10 July 2020

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

I remember the first gathering of Drupal contributors back in 2005. At the time, there were less than 50 people in attendance. In the 15 years since that first gathering, DrupalCon has become the heartbeat of the Drupal community. With each new DrupalCon, we introduce new people to our community, demonstrate the best that Drupal has to offer, and reconnect with our Drupal family.

The Maintainers Intiative

By Greg Boggs on 19 June 2020

With Drupal 9 here, the upgrade process from Drupal 8 to 9 is short and impressive. Upgrading is similar to a Drupal 8 minor upgrade. After some testing, your Drupal 9 website is ready to go. But, what about Drupal 8 modules? Thanks to the smooth upgrade path to Drupal 9, most large modules are ready to go! But, what about the smaller modules that haven't been maintained in a few years? Enter the Maintainers Project!