Drupal core updates

A summary of core feature releases.

Drupal 10

15 December 2023

Easier content management: new field types UI, easier handling of terms, menu items and media
More flexible block placement: place blocks depending on http status (404 or 403)
New built-in file name sanitization options: transliteration is now in core
Faster permission management: permissions now have a filter
Performance improvements: better caching and faster rendering
PHP support: support for PHP 8.3 and PHP attributes
Built-in project news updates: Announcements Feed module is now installed by default (standard profile)
Developer experience improvements: PerformanceTestBase and various other improvements

22 June 2023

Easier and better frontend customization: Single Directory Components (experimental), makes creating UI components easier by bundling template, style, and JavaScript files together. Additionally, Twig template debugging and render caching settings are now easily accessible via an admin page
Decoupled navigation support: new APIs for retrieving menus using the Linkset standard
Improved content editing: CKEditor comes with improvements such as an autoformat feature that automatically formats lists and headers as you type. The language options for source code examples in the editor are now customizable
Streamlined content modeling and management: better UI to reuse fields and for bulk operation, enforce specific text formats, entity revision editing has been unified
Flexible block and page management: easier block creation, more granular permissions, revisions support
Faster page performance: enhanced BigPipe, responsive images and oEmbed content can be lazy-loaded, improved time to first byte (TTFB), ...
Project announcements on your Drupal site (experimental): site administrators can receive important announcements from projects
Automated accessibility testing: Drupal Nightwatch tests now include Axe Core accessibility scans
Core committer team expanded
Drupal is a Digital Public Good (opens in a new tab)

15 December 2022

This initial release was made possible by the efforts of thousands of contributors.

Better Looking Interface: backend (Claro) and frontend (Olivero), previous themes (Bartik (opens in a new tab) and Seven (opens in a new tab)) are still available if desired, in contrib
CKEditor 5 is the new built-in content editor, replacing CKEditor 4
Starterkit theme generation tool: useful for preventing issues when the base theme changes
Updated dependencies: requires Symfony 6.2 and PHP 8.1 or later
Responsive grids in Views
No more Internet Explorer support
Removal of non-essential features: Quick Edit, Aggregator, HAL, RDF, and Color are now available as contributed modules
Includes all features added since Drupal 9.0