GoKawiilDrupal founder unveils advocacy push and Canvas upgrades at DrupalCon Rotterdam
At his DrupalCon Rotterdam keynote, Drupal creator Dries Buytaert said the platform has outpaced its public reputation and announced a new advocacy program to showcase recent progress. He detailed updates including multilingual support for the Drupal Canvas page builder, React-based code components for JavaScript developers, and continued improvements to Drupal Core and Drupal CMS, which combines Site Templates, Recipes, Drupal AI and Canvas.
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The advocacy program suggests Drupal's leadership sees perception, not technical capability, as the project's biggest obstacle to growth. Opening Canvas to React developers could widen Drupal's appeal beyond its existing community by letting mainstream JavaScript developers build without learning Drupal-specific conventions, according to Buytaert.
- Dries Buytaert launched an advocacy program at DrupalCon Rotterdam to address Drupal's outdated reputation.
- Drupal Canvas, the platform's page builder, now supports multilingual sites and uses React for code components.
- Drupal CMS integrates Site Templates, Recipes, Drupal AI and Canvas, built atop a continuously improving Drupal Core.
Source: dri.es, 2026-10-19
Published there as: “Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation”
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