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Working toward an Experience Builder

At DrupalCon Lille 2023, Dries announced a new strategic initiative to build a Next Generation Page Builder. The goal of the initiative was to improve and expand Layout Builder to provide a truly intuitive out-of-the-box page building experience.

Drupal 11.0 will require PHP 8.3 and MySQL 8.0

Drupal 11 development has reached a point where the system requirements are being raised in the development branch. To prepare core developers for this and to inform the community at large, we are announcing the following requirements for Drupal 11.

Webserver

We announced in mid-February that there is an RFC to remove support for Windows in production. Other webserver requirements are unchanged.

Applications sought for Project Update Working Group

Applications are sought for the position of Project Update Working Group member.

Interested parties should create a new issue in the Project Update Working Group issue queue.

Drupal 11 is now open for development, Drupal 10.3.x is branched

Starting today, the Drupal 11.x branch is used for building the next major Drupal version, Drupal 11. This means that major version specific changes can now happen on the Drupal 11.x branch. This includes dependency and requirements updates and removal of deprecated API and extensions. Details are available in the allowed changes during Drupal core release cycle document.

RFC Remove support for Windows in production in Drupal 11

Drupal added support for IIS in 2010 and we have supported that and WAMP (Running Apache and PHP on Windows). Unfortunately, we have never been able to provide automated testing for these environments.  And since 2010, the use of Microsoft products for hosting websites has declined. Because of this, the Drupal core committers propose drop support for Windows when used on production web sites in Drupal 11.

DrupalCI and all patch testing will be turned off on July 1, 2024

To continue automated testing, projects must convert to GitLab CI and contributors must switch from patches to merge requests by July 1, 2024.

Coding standards proposals for final discussion on 2 January 2024

The Technical Working Group (TWG) is announcing two coding standards changes for final discussion. Feedback will be reviewed at the meeting scheduled for Tuesday 2 January 2024 2100 UTC.

Request for comment: Project Update Working Group

The Drupal core committers and Drupal 10 readiness initiative are seeking feedback on a proposed new working group. The group's mission is to focus on contributed modules where a maintainer has not updated to the next major Drupal version. This includes modules where the maintainer has requested assistance as well as modules where the maintainer is no longer active.

Coding standards proposals for final discussion on 20 December

The Technical Working Group (TWG) is announcing two coding standards changes for final discussion. Feedback will be reviewed at the meeting scheduled for Wednesday 20 December 2200 UTC.

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