January 28, 2026 – Today marks one of the biggest evolutions in Drupal's 25-year history.
Drupal CMS 2.0 launches with Drupal Canvas, AI-powered tools, and introduces a component system along with the first site template that enables marketing teams to launch fully branded, professional websites in days instead of weeks. Built on Drupal core, it maintains the enterprise-grade security, scalability, and flexibility Drupal is known for.
Try it now → drupal.org/drupal-cms
What's in 2.0
Drupal CMS 2.0 is built on top of Drupal Core 11.3, which is the biggest performance improvement in a decade, allowing you to serve 26-33% more requests with the same setup.
We are introducing Drupal Canvas as the default editing experience. Drag components onto pages with live preview and real-time editing. No more switching between admin forms and preview windows for your landing pages – build directly on the page. No Drupal knowledge required to get started.
The custom built Mercury component library provides common building blocks like cards, testimonials, heroes, menus and accordions.
We are introducing site templates that provide feature-complete starting points for specific use cases. Byte is the first template included with Drupal CMS 2.0. It is preconfigured as a marketing site for a SaaS-based product, with blog, newsletter signup, pricing pages, and a contact form, with an elegant dark design. All built with Canvas. Installs in under 3 minutes.
Recipe-based integrations automate complex configurations:
- Mailchimp integration, automatically grabs audiences from your instance after you authenticate, and creates signup form blocks ready to drop into Canvas pages
- Recipe system turns "how did I do this last time?" into one-click operations
AI tools (optional):
- Generate complete pages from text prompts using all available Canvas components
- Admin chatbot helps with site-building tasks like creating content types, defining taxonomy terms, and adding fields - guiding you from intent to configuration faster
- AI-assisted alt text generation for images improves accessibility across your site while allowing human review
- Built-in support for amazee.ai Private AI Provider (free tokens included), plus OpenAI and Anthropic - no complex setup required
- AI Dashboard provides central visibility into available AI features and configured providers
Plus all of these proven goodies from Drupal CMS 1 (January 2025):
- Streamlined installer with smart defaults
- Project Browser for discovering and installing modules
- Automatic updates for security patches
- Recipes system for packaging and sharing configurations
- Modern admin UI with Gin theme
- SEO tools out-of-the-box
- Accessibility checking built-in
- Data privacy compliance features
Thank you to the community
Drupal CMS 2.0 would not have been possible without the innovations in Drupal core and the visual tools and components built specifically for this release. Thanks to the hundreds of contributors across dozens of organizations. Special thanks to the AI initiative partners, and everyone who tested, filed issues, and pushed boundaries outward.
This is community-driven development at scale.
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