Drupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP, used widely by government, higher education, large nonprofits, and enterprise content properties. Articles cover Drupal fundamentals, version-agnostic concepts, ecosystem, and the practical decisions facing Drupal operators.
Drupal 12 is currently targeted for release the week of August 10, 2026 per Drupal.org’s official core release schedule. As of early June 2026, that’s the second of three potential release windows: the first window (week of June 15, 2026) was missed...
What is Symfony? Symfony is two things bundled under one name. It is a full-stack PHP web framework you can use to build applications from scratch, and it is a library of standalone, reusable PHP components that other frameworks, content management...
Disclosure: digitalmatters.me runs on Pantheon, which is one of the two platforms reviewed in this Pantheon vs Acquia comparison. We’ve kept the analysis neutral and sourced pricing and feature claims to public materials so the comparison stands on...
To migrate Drupal 10 to 11 on a typical site is, with a clean audit and a supported hosting stack, a sequence of Composer commands and a careful post-upgrade verification pass. On an unprepared site it is a multi-day project full of surprise...
Drupal moved from a homegrown PHP application stack to a Symfony foundation in 2015 with Drupal 8, and never looked back. Today’s Drupal 11 (which we cover in our pillar overview) sits on top of Symfony 7. For developers and architects making...
Drupal 10 end of life lands on December 9, 2026 (drupal.org release schedule). After that date, the Drupal Security Team stops releasing security patches for the 10.x branch. The site keeps working; every new vulnerability disclosed after that date...
Drupal 11 has been generally available since August 1, 2024 (release schedule on drupal.org). For most Drupal site owners, the practical question is not "what is Drupal 11?" but "do I need to act, and when?" The short answer:...
The Drupal 10 features that mattered most when the release landed in December 2022 were less about flashy new capabilities and more about architectural cleanup: a newer Symfony foundation, a higher PHP minimum, modern default themes, the move from...
The Drupal basics every business decision-maker should understand before adopting it: it is free and open source, it is built around a modular architecture, it handles structured content extraordinarily well, it powers some of the most serious...
What is Drupal? Drupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP. It powers a meaningful share of the world’s most demanding websites: government portals, university systems, large nonprofit and association sites, multilingual...
