Pronovix open-sources a Drupal Recipe to make developer portals AI-ready with llms.txt support. This solution provides LLM-friendly Markdown content, reducing processing costs and enhancing clarity for AI agents.
In March, Metadrop continued its contributions to the Drupal ecosystem with a particular focus on privacy and content editorial experience. The team released new modules, updated existing ones, added integrations, and assisted clients with some internal issues not directly related to Drupal, while still having time do research on AI.
New modules and releases Iframe ConsentWe developed a new module to manage IFrame consent, ensuring GDPR-compliant handling of embedded iframes by loading third-party content only after obtaining user consent. This effort enhances privacy in addition to existing modules like EXIF Removal and Youtube Cookies.
Watchdog Statistics 1.0.6The release of version 1.0.6 added date filters, enabling users to generate reports from previous months and display log statistics for the last month — an…
In this episode of Talking Drupal, we delve into the International Drupal Federation Initiative with our guest Tim Doyle, CEO of the Drupal Association. We explore the goals, structure, and potential impact of this initiative on the global Drupal community. Additionally, we cover the Modeler API as our module of the week, discussing its functionalities and future potential. Joining the discussion are hosts John Picozzi, Norah Medlin, Nic Laflin, and Martin Anderson-Clutz, who bring their insights and perspectives to the table.
For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/507
TopicsInternational Drupal Federation Initiative Recent DA Video Feature on The Drop Times ASBL
GuestsTim Doyle - Drupal.org Tim D.
HostsNic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Norah Medlin - tekNorah
Module of the Weekwith Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
The Modeler API provides an API for modules like ECA - Events, Conditions, Actions, Migrate Visualize, AI Agents, and maybe others. The purpose is to allow those modules to utilize modelers like BPMN.iO, (and maybe others in the future) to build diagrams constructed of their components (e.g. plugins) and write them back into module-specific config entities.
Dear Readers,
Something subtle is shifting in the Drupal space. Over the past year, there has been a clear move to consolidate around Drupal CMS as the central message of the project. The intention is understandable. Making Drupal more accessible through low-code and visual tooling lowers the barrier for new users and small teams. But this unified direction, while strategic, risks unintentionally simplifying the perception of what Drupal is and what it is still capable of.
That concern comes into focus when we look at how DrupalCon Atlanta was structured. The sessions and keynotes gave the impression that Drupal CMS is not just a major initiative, but the primary path forward. Yet Drupal has always been more than a product. It has been a framework that adapts to a wide range of use cases, especially in enterprise environments. There was noticeably less visibility for advanced architectures, decoupled implementations, or the tools that support complex digital ecosystems.
This is where the reflections of community members like Jesus Manuel Olivas add useful contrast. His take on DrupalCon highlighted the gap between the official storyline and what many agencies are actively building. For organizations that rely on multi-site strategies, custom front-end frameworks, and API-first infrastructure, the current messaging does not quite reflect their day-to-day reality. These are not theoretical edge cases. They are living, large-scale implementations shaping digital strategy across industries.
Drupal's strength has always come from its flexibility. As the project evolves, it’s important to keep that core identity intact. There is room for Drupal CMS to grow without overshadowing the more complex and less visible work happening across the ecosystem. Honoring that balance is not just a matter of inclusion. It is a matter of relevance.
INTERVIEWDISCOVER DRUPALWe acknowledge that there are more stories to share. However, due to selection constraints, we must pause further exploration for now.
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Thank you,
Sincerely
Alka Elizabeth
Sub-editor, The DropTimes.
In Drupal Views, "grouping" refers to the feature found in the Format section's Style options. When configuring a view's format (Table, HTML List, Grid, etc.), you can select one or more fields to group results by. This creates visual sections with headers for each unique field value, organizing content into logical categories.
The ProblemStandard Views pagination in Drupal operates on individual rows, without awareness of the grouping structure. This results in a broken, inconsistent pager with groups split across multiple pages.
The SolutionViews Grouping Field Pager treats each group as a pagination unit rather than each row. This ensures:
The module:
Since the launch of the Drupal CMS earlier this year, we’ve been hard at work documenting everything you need to build and maintain a site using this new, streamlined Drupal experience. Our goal is to make the Drupal CMS User Guide a go-to reference for site builders of all experience levels — especially those coming to Drupal for the first time.
In this post, we'll share an update on the current state of the guide, highlight two new sections we’re especially excited about, and show you how your team or company can help move the project forward.
Amber Matz Fri, 06/13/2025 - 16:19How partnerships benefit open source projects and their customers
Palantir has been contributing to open source projects for over 25 years, and we’re one of the world's leading contributors to the Drupal project and community. Over the years we’ve channeled our expertise into creating key modules now incorporated into Drupal core and helping organizations across healthcare, government, education, and more with Drupal solutions tailored to their needs.
We’re proud to announce that Palantir was recently accredited as a Top Tier Drupal Certified Partner. There are currently only three other companies in the entire world who have achieved this status based on their contributions to the project and community.
What is a Drupal Certified Partner?The Certified Partnership program arose within the Drupal community to recognize the efforts of agencies that significantly contribute to the platform. Drupal Certified Partners are service providers that demonstrate three key characteristics:
The program is overseen by the Drupal Association, which requires firms to demonstrate how they meet these criteria. Organizations looking for Drupal partners can trust Drupal Certified Partnership status to signal that the company leverages best-in-class Drupal expertise.
Organizations that work with Drupal Certified Partners can trust they’re collaborating with experts who not only build with Drupal— they help build Drupal itself.
What are some of Palantir’s Drupal contributions?At Palantir, we have a decades-long track record of building, maintaining, extending and promoting Drupal. As a Top Tier Partner, our clients trust us to maximize the platform’s capabilities to deliver best-in-class web applications—learn more about our Drupal consulting services today.
EditTogetherOne of our most recent Drupal innovations is EditTogether: a free, multi-user editing solution that allows you to write and edit exactly where you publish. Rather than relying on external tools for collaborative editing, Edit Together allows you to edit, comment, and version control any field on your Drupal site. This eliminates the need for copy-pasting between your editor and publisher, avoids vendor lock-in, and allows you to take advantage of Drupal’s commitment to data sovereignty in your editing workflows.
EditTogether was conceived as part of our client work for a division of a state agency that provides Medicaid services to its residents. Their content workflows were high-friction and inefficient, relying on transferring content between several proprietary tools for writing, editing, and publishing. After auditing the available solutions, we realized there wasn’t a highly customizable, extensible editor in Drupal that could meet our client’s rigorous security requirements—so our team of developers and architects built a rich text editor using ProseMirror tools and connected it to Drupal via the Drupal Text Editor API.
After successfully delivering the EditTogether solution to the client, we’re currently validating EditTogether against other use cases and preparing for wider release back to the community.
Drupal.org modernizationWhen the Drupal Association needed to modernize their own site, they trusted us to deliver. In 2024, the Promote Drupal team wanted to migrate Drupal.org from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 to show off Drupal’s most recent capabilities. Drupal.org is the online home of the Drupal community—so they needed to balance modernizing the site for new adopters and evaluators with making sure the 12,000 pages of documentation and 50,000 modules on the site remained continuously available for the entire community.
The Drupal Association wanted to work with a firm that not only knew Drupal inside out, but could oversee an incremental development plan to deliver the new content as fast as possible while still maintaining excellent service for the existing community. They chose Palantir.net to tackle the job: we delivered their needed site modernizations, dramatically improved test coverage, and built a new components-based design system to make adding new content a breeze.
We’re continuing to work with the Drupal Association to enhance their development team with added technical expertise and strategic consulting for the next phases of the modernization plan.
Why are partnerships vital to open source projects?Open source technologies give developers and communities greater levels of transparency, flexibility, and financial accessibility in their digital projects—but maintaining open source projects can be challenging. Funding is frequently tight, and governance organizations are often overwhelmed with support requests. Open source solutions rely on organizations contributing their time, expertise, and money back into the technology to keep the lights on. However, many companies view open source contributions as simply a marketing opportunity or a “nice to have”—and the first thing to get cut when to-do lists start to get unwieldy.
The Drupal project wanted to incentivize more people to become active open source contributors— and this is where Certified Partnerships come in.
Partnerships reward consistent contributionIn exchange for meeting certain requirements (for example, a specified number of code commits, or donating a certain amount of money to the open source foundation), organizations can become certified partners of their communities—and enjoy a range of associated benefits.
Certified partnerships are also advantageous to organizations looking for agencies with proven expertise in a specific open source technology. When you work with a certified partner, you’re working with a company who actively helps to build and maintain the software you need. Partners have an intimate knowledge of the software they contribute to, and how to make the most of its capabilities. This knowledge and expertise also enable them to build custom solutions that work well with the core technology.
What makes the Drupal Certified Partner Program unique?The Drupal Certified Partnerships program recognizes companies and organizations that have “gone above and beyond to sustain and grow the Drupal program”.
Drupal Certified Partnerships don’t just recognize code contributions—they also reward active community participation and encouraging Drupal adoption. Organizations qualify for Certified Partnership through a number of criteria:
The partnership program bolsters the thriving community around Drupal. When organizations are looking to partner with service providers with deep technical expertise, they have a robust marketplace of partners to choose from across regional markets and industries.
Drupal Certified Partners offer solutions you can trustOpen source software (OSS) offers rigorously maintained, transparent solutions, without the hefty price tags of proprietary software— offering organizations of all sizes many incentives to default to open. According to the MIT Technology Review, “The free and open-source software movement is not only alive and well; it has become a keystone of the tech industry.” Indeed, the US Digital Services Playbook encourages federal agencies to evaluate open source solutions at every level of their stack.
When organizations decide to partner with external agencies for their digital transformation and modernization projects, there’s good news and bad news. The good news: numerous agencies build with open source solutions. The bad news: numerous agencies build with open source solutions.
Working with Drupal offers you transparency, flexibility, built-in accessibility, and data sovereignty. Working with a Drupal Certified Partner means you’re working with the people who build Drupal—and who are uniquely positioned to make the most of its powerful capabilities. As Drupal Association CEO Tim Doyle puts it, “Drupal Certified Partners are esteemed agencies that exhibit a profound level of expertise in Drupal, representing a select group of contributors crucial to the vitality and future prosperity of the Drupal ecosystem.”
We’ve been trusted by clients across numerous industries—and by the Drupal Association themselves—to build and deliver highly customized, performant Drupal solutions prioritizing user-centered design, accessibility, and turnkey security.
Learn more about our modular approach to custom Drupal development, or get in touch to discover how we can tailor our expertise to your organization’s needs.
A huge joint stable release of AI was made yesterday, where 10 modules were updated to 1.1.0. This is a major milestone in the Drupal AI brings a host of improvements and significant new features.
Announcement by Marcus Johansson.
Some technical facts of the AI release:
The most important update is function calling and a new agent framework, but here is a list of some other new features:
Some things directly connected to it:
The by far largest feature is the new Agentic framework where anyone can build agents without writing a single line of code. They are stored as configurations, meaning that you can build once, export and ship anywhere. And you can trigger them from anywhere you want - Chatbot, CLI, widgets, via an API etc.
Because Drupal is such a flexible and stable CMF, it will be the perfect agent runner. It adheres automatically to your contents permissions, files etc. while also keeping humans in the loop.
With the announcement of the new AI Initiative the future looks bright for Drupal and AI, the announcement is here if you haven't seen it.
🔧 Standards-Based ToolingWe’ve implemented the tooling in a MCP-standardized way, which opens the door for seamless integration with external tools—and makes it easier to share and reuse agents and tools across systems and languages.
🧠 Visual Tools for EveryoneOutside of this we have also added a visual AI Agents Testing Tool where you can setup complex scenarios and retest them over and over, without having to be a developer. An advanced agent tracing tool is also in the pipeline!
And in the 1.1.0 release we also have the possibility to setup the agents via the modeler api and BMPN.io in a graphical way thanks to Jürgen Haas! He also has a visual way of building tools on the way.
The hope is that everything we build, should be possible to use directly from the browser!
🙌 Thank You
I thought I would thank a list of people that have contributed to this, but I checked the unique contributors via git and got 90 people. So I will not try to list everyone, because I will surely forget someone - but special thanks to James Abrahams and FreelyGive Ltd for giving me the opportunity to work with this full time (and more :) )!
It will be really exciting what kind of agents people will build, we have already tried everything from agents that checks configuration diffs for you, to agents that builds components from images. Hopefully your imagination, and not the framework, will be the limit ;)
We have a MR that can be tested for using this within Drupal CMS as well.
For anyone interested in the new agent framework I did a presentation on it at Drupal Days Leuven and also have a longer developers preview. More videos and documentation to follow.