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March featured two important Drupal events: the North American DrupalCon in Atlanta, as well as the first DrupalCamp in England after 5 years! Let’s revisit these along with other top Drupal news & blog posts from March.
State of Drupal presentation (March 2025)
It makes the most sense to start with Dries’s traditional State of Drupal presentation, a recap of his keynote speech from DrupalCon Atlanta. This time around the report mostly focuses on the progress and key future plans for the new Drupal CMS.
The first big update planned to go live before DrupalCon Vienna in November is the release of a stable version 1.0 of the Experience Builder. The other one is the introduction of Drupal Site Templates, which will simplify setup & site building even more than Recipes, potentially replacing the popular Distributions over time.
While the first Site Templates may get included in the official 2.0 release of Drupal CMS, the plan is to also expand the offer of available templates through a dedicated marketplace on drupal.org.
Read more about the DrupalCon Atlanta Driesnote
DrupalCamp England 2025
In the next blog post from March, James Williams of Computer Minds recaps his experience from the new DrupalCamp England held at Cambridge University on March 1st – the first in-person DrupalCamp in England after 5 years.
James first highlights the opening session from 1xINTERNET’s Baddý Sonja Breidert who showcased unique uses for an AI chatbot on a Drupal site. Another key aspect of the event that he writes about is the broader discussions about the use of AI in Drupal resulting from Baddý’s session and that of FreelyGive’s Jamie Abrahams about the use of AI agents.
Read more about DrupalCamp England 2025
Experience the power of Drupal AI for free
Speaking of AI in Drupal, let’s continue with this article from Michael Schmid of amazee.io announcing their one-click, free trial of an accessible and security-focused combination of Drupal content management & AI. The trial experience of Drupal AI promises benefits such as an instant setup, no hidden costs, regional data processing, zero configuration and free exploration of other features.
The module is the result of a partnership between amazee and FreelyGive, Jamie Abrahams’ company mentioned above by James Williams, and their desire to make AI more accessible to the Drupal community as a whole. Its capabilities were also showcased by the amazee team at DrupalCon Atlanta.
DDEV Add-on Registry Introduction
Moving on, we have an announcement from Stas Zhuk of DDEV of the introduction of the DDEV Add-on Registry, a community hub for exploring and contributing to the collection of add-ons for DDEV. It enables searching and sorting add-ons, as well as commenting through an integration with GitHub. The add-ons fall into two categories: DDEV-supported Official add-ons, and community-supported Contrib add-ons.
Read more about the DDEV Add-on Registry
Is it Time for DXP to Rest in Peace? Dominique De Cooman Thinks Otherwise
Next up, we have The Drop Times’ Alka Elizabeth’s interview with Dominique De Cooman of Dropsolid, which took place as a response to the discussion around Pantheon’s Josh Koenig’s recent posts about the future of Drupal and the concept of the digital experience platform.
An advocate of the OpenDXP approach, Dominique presents several counter arguments to the ones offered by Josh Koenig, pointing out that Koenig’s critique mostly only covered monolithic DXPs rather than the entire DXP market as a whole. He argues that DXPs and composable Drupal stacks don’t need to be mutually exclusive, but can rather co-exist in the same ecosystem.
Read more about Dominique De Cooman’s thoughts on DXP
How AI could reshape CMS platforms
We continue with another post from Dries, this one less specific to Drupal and pertaining more broadly to content management platforms in general. Namely, he tackles the issue of an AI-first CMS and how its features and workflows should differ from those of traditional CMS platforms.
Dries highlights several key considerations, such as: scaling human oversight with smart review queues; selective control over AI changes with Git-like content versioning; configuration versioning; understanding AI decisions through enhanced audit trails; and ensuring governance and quality through the use of guardrails.
He sees the potential for evolution of CMS in two ways, each of them prioritizing different key features: improved version control, and AI oversight infrastructure.
Drupal CMS Docs: Should We Combine the CMS and User Guides?
The following article from Joe Shindelar of Drupalize.Me dives into the important question of whether or not to combine the new Drupal CMS Guide with the existing Drupal User Guide.
As he argues, the existence of two separate guides would be confusing for new Drupal users, especially given the large amount of overlap between them. However, certain decisions about both guides are requiring a rethink of how to approach this now with Drupal CMS.
According to Joe, the best course of action would be to merge the two guides, focusing on Drupal CMS as the starting point for new users. His article also serves to open up the discussion and allow other community members to share their feedback and suggestions.
Read more about the Drupal CMS & Drupal User Guides
Drupal CMS leadership changes
The final article on our overview for this month is another important announcement, this time from Dries about key recent changes to leadership behind Drupal CMS. Namely, Nick Koger has replaced Suzanne Dergacheva as Marketing Lead; Emma Horrell has been appointed UX Research Lead; and Adam Globus-Hoenich has officially been named Drupal CMS Lead Architect.
