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We’re bringing you our monthly overview of top Drupal articles and news. We hope you enjoy the September edition!
Global AI Report 2025 released: Where organizations see the greatest value in AI today.
We’re kicking off this month’s overview with Paul Johnson’s breakdown of key findings from the Global AI Survey 2025 conducted in July. 216 people participated in the survey, representing 199 different Drupal organizations. 86% of these organizations are already leveraging AI, with the top benefits being automation and efficiency.
In addition, some of the most notable AI considerations uncovered in the survey are the significant ability of AI to deliver a market advantage, and a focus on trust and human oversight.
Organizations not using AI most often cite concerns regarding data and privacy, AI’s ethical implications and the frequent inaccuracy of AI-produced solutions as the main reasons for them not using it.
Read more about the Global AI Report 2025
A New Era of Digital Accessibility: The EAA and its Implications for Drupal
We continue with an important article from Mike Gifford of the Drupal Accessibility Working Group, who examined the recently effective European Accessibility Act and its implications for Drupal. The EAA extends the requirements from 2016 legislation to more products and services from the private sector such as banking and e-commerce.
As Mike highlights, Drupal’s long-standing commitment to accessibility perfectly positions it to win out in this new era of digital accessibility. Many of its core design decisions adhere to the POUR principles, i.e. Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. In addition, the Drupal community also contributes a plethora of resources that can further enhance and support accessibility.
Read more about the EAA and Drupal accessibility
Beyond Patching: Drupal Association and CrowdSec Team Up to Protect the Open Web
In the next September article, we go from accessibility to another cornerstone of the web – security. Namely, CrowdSec’s Jona Azizaj explains how the collaboration between CrowdSec and the Drupal Association can help Drupal to better position itself in the modern web landscape of increasingly evolving security risks and threats.
In the spirit of open source, CrowdSec’s main advantage is that it shares real-time intelligence about threat detection with the entire global network of CrowdSec users. Combined with Drupal’s traditional host-level defenses, the partnership now also enables application-level protection from rising threats such as brute force attacks and spam.
Read more about the Drupal + CrowdSec partnership
DrupalCon Vienna 2025: Everything You Need to Know
With DrupalCon Vienna less than a week away, we also wanted to highlight this article from Iwantha Lekamge on the Drupal Association blog breaking down the key things to know for attendees.
Besides logistical information about the conference and information about Vienna, Iwantha’s article also goes over the main reasons to attend and some highlights to look out for, such as the four keynote speeches and the International Splash Awards ceremony.
As always, the conference will provide contribution and learning opportunities, as well as practical examples of Drupal usage through real-world case studies. What’s new this year is the addition of a full InfoSec & DevOps track.
Read more about DrupalCon Vienna 2025
Proposal: restructuring Drupal's internals
Next up, we have Alexander Varwijk’s proposal of restructuring Drupal internals to streamline tasks that are trivial in the most popular frameworks, but require a lot of effort and additional external tools in Drupal.
The key consideration for enabling asynchronous tasks in Drupal was where Drupal should run the event loop. However, when attempting to place it in the Drupal Kernel, Alexander came across several interconnected challenges: Kernel overload, front controllers as bottlenecks, and the question of developer control vs. Drupal control.
Tackling the problem as a whole rather than individual problems led to a very fitting solution that additionally increases the versatility of Drupal – Symfony Runtime.
Read more about restructuring Drupal’s internals
Modern Higher Ed Websites with SDC and Storybook
Moving on, we have an article from Bálint Pekker of Cheppers, who wrote about the benefits of using Drupal Single Directory Components and Storybook for better Higher Ed website experiences.
Since decentralization is a very common issue for universities and other Higher Ed institutions, there is a strong case for them to implement a unified component library to ensure brand consistency and improve efficiency.
Drupal’s SDC together with Storybook are the perfect fit to address these legacy shortcomings. By introducing the modern, component-driven design approach, they can help institutions speed up development while also unlocking innovation and ensuring longevity.
Read more about using SDC and Storybook in Higher Education
What’s new in CKEditor Drupal modules: Merge Fields, Export with Inline Styles, and more
Another piece of news that we wanted to highlight this month is the announcement of the release of CKEditor 5 for Drupal, which brings new features to both the Premium Features and Plugin Pack modules.
The premium features include: Merge Fields, Export with Inline Styles, and Enhanced Source Code Editing – Dark Theme, as well as other smaller improvements such as adding PHP 8.4 compatibility.
The most notable new feature of the Plugin Pack module is the integration with the Media Embed plugin, which allows editors to insert rich media directly in the editor. This release also brings other improvements and fixes, such as unified submodule descriptions.
Read more about CKEditor 5 for Drupal
Smarter, Faster Testing: How AI Accelerates Test-Driven Development in Drupal
Lastly, we have an article from Tag1 Consulting’s Sebastian Leu who shares a real-life example of how AI has facilitated test-driven development when working on a patch for the Drupal Autosave Form module. Since the module’s JavaScript code is quite complex, simply manual testing would be time consuming and error prone.
Sebastian made use of AI not only to automate testing of the new functionality, but also to help address open PR feedback to refine the code. While automated tests provided by AI were indeed a huge benefit, he still needed to combine those with human expertise and manual debugging for optimal results.
