Tim Rabbetts | November 13, 2026
Drupal teams have a narrow but manageable upgrade window in late 2026. Drupal 10 reaches end of life on 9 December 2026, and Drupal 12 is...
Tim Rabbetts | November 10, 2026
Drupal 12 is now close enough to require engineering preparation rather than casual forward planning. The current Drupal core schedule places the...
Tim Rabbetts | November 7, 2026
Drupal Commerce administrators have had to treat the 28 October 2026 security release as an incident-response event rather than a routine...
Tim Rabbetts | November 4, 2026
PHP 8.6 is now close enough to release that Drupal teams should be testing against it, but not close enough to treat it as a routine production...
Tim Rabbetts | November 1, 2026
Drupal security work is normally discussed at the application layer: core advisories, contributed modules, permissions, sanitisation and...
Tim Rabbetts | October 29, 2026
Drupal site owners have had to respond to two separate critical events in October 2026: a critical Drupal core remote-code-execution advisory on...
Tim Rabbetts | October 26, 2026
Emergency security releases often create a dangerous sense of completion. The package is updated, the service is restarted, the health check is...
Tim Rabbetts | October 23, 2026
Drupal teams should treat the PHP security release published on 21 October 2026 as an infrastructure incident, not merely as another dependency...
Tim Rabbetts | October 20, 2026
Drupal AI has moved beyond the stage where its main appeal was adding a prompt box to an editing form. The 1.5 release, published on 14 October...
Tim Rabbetts | October 17, 2026
Drupal site owners have had to treat the 14 October 2026 core security release as an emergency maintenance event. Security advisory...
Tim Rabbetts | October 14, 2026
Drupal’s Security Team has announced a critical core security release for 14 October 2026, scheduled between 16:00 and 21:00 UTC. The...
Tim Rabbetts | October 12, 2026
PHP 8.6.0 RC3 was published on 8 October 2026, placing the release candidate inside the final testing phase for the next PHP version. The PHP...