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New provisional Drupal 9 core committers: Victoria Spagnolo, Ben Mullins, and Cristina Chumillas!

I am pleased to announce that Victoria Spagnolo (quietone), Ben Mullins (bnjmnm), and Cristina Chumillas (

Friday, September 3, 2021 - 08:52

Looking for a second Core Committer Team Facilitator

The core committer team is looking for a new provisional committer team facilitator to help coordinate Drupal core release process, team communica

Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 14:52

Feedback needed: Dropping support for Internet Explorer 11 in Drupal 10

We are currently planning for Drupal core to drop support for Internet Explorer 11 in Drupal 10 (scheduled to be released in June 2022).

Monday, November 30, 2020 - 12:25

Drupal 9.1.0-alpha1 will be released the week of October 19th

In preparation for the minor release, Drupal 9.1.x will enter the alpha phase the week of October 19th, 2020.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 20:15

Announcing the Bug-Smash community initiative!

Happy to announce we're attempting to kick off a new community initiative primarily focused on fixing and closing bugs.

We're hoping to

Friday, May 29, 2020 - 22:58

Release window for core release candidates extended to next week; 9.0.0 release date still scheduled for June 3

In order to best resolve some packaging, dependency, and upgrade path issues that have come to our attention in the past week, we're extending the release windows for the following releases to the week of May 11:

Friday, May 8, 2020 - 23:25

Drupal 9.0.0-beta1 has been released!

Huge thanks for responding to our call for contributors posted at the beginning of the month.

Friday, March 20, 2020 - 20:39

Status of Drupal 9.0.0-beta1: a March beta is still possible

This week is the first target release window for the Drupal 9 beta.

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 18:41

Issues adding new deprecations (for removal in Drupal 10) should be moved to 9.1.x

Drupal 8 and higher provide a continuous upgrade path with a deprecation policy that requires old APIs to be mark

Friday, January 10, 2020 - 22:22

Drupal 9 meetings now every Monday at 7pm UTC, help us prepare for beta!

We started the "All things Drupal 9" meetings all the way back in October 2018 to start preparing for the new major release.

Thursday, January 9, 2020 - 17:34