We are excited to announce that the main branch is now the official Drupal core development branch. Using a main branch aligns Drupal core with the best practices of industry and major open-source projects. This move is the final step of infrastructure changes that began in 2023.
Going forward, main is the new, primary development trunk for Drupal core. Most active work and outstanding issues currently filed against 11.x should now be targeted at main. The 11.x branch will remain for Drupal-11-specific issues, while Drupal 12 development will happen in the main branch.

How do you capture something invisible? A blustery short revels in the sights and sounds of a windswept day on the coast
- by Aeon Video

You can’t stop life from throwing changes your way, big and small. But you can get a lot better at dealing with them
- by David A Clark

In 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions
- by Catherine Nichols
The ancient institution shaped education as we know it today
The post The Accidental Discovery of Aristotle’s Paradigm-Shifting School appeared first on Nautilus.
Five Republican senators had voted to advance a war powers resolution on Venezuela. After Trump went berserk, the final vote narrowly failed.
The post Trump Bullies Flip-Flopping Senators Into Defeating Vote to Block Venezuela War appeared first on The Intercept.
A new technology could help scientists answer an old question
The post The Search for Where Consciousness Lives in the Brain appeared first on Nautilus.
And their meaning has shifted over millennia
The post C-Sections Have a Surprisingly Ancient History appeared first on Nautilus.
Europa’s seafloor might be “too quiet” to support life
The post Why Europa Might Not Have Life After All appeared first on Nautilus.
“President Trump called on Iranians on Tuesday to keep protesting against their government and warned that those responsible for killing demonstrators would ‘pay a big price.’” — New York Times
“Donald Trump branded anti-ICE protests in Minnesota ‘fake riots,’ aired a crass and evidence-free theory about the people involved, and spouted a racist slogan during a lengthy, unhinged speech in Detroit.” — Daily Mirror
In the wake of the violent crackdown against protestors in Iran, the United States stands firmly on the side of the Iranian people rising up against their authoritarian government. Our administration supports protesting against any government except our own.
Drupal 12 development has reached a point where the system requirements may be raised in the development branch. To prepare core developers for this and to inform the community at large, we are announcing the following requirements for Drupal 12.
Webserver
The webserver requirements have not changed since Drupal 11. They are Apache 2.4.7 or nginx 1.1 minimum. IIS is not supported.
PHP
Drupal 12 will require PHP 8.5. Older versions of PHP are not supported.
Database
The minimum database requirements for backends supported by Drupal 12 core are MySQL 8.0, MariaDB 10.11, PostgreSQL 18, and SQLite 3.45.
The MySQL and SQLite requirements have not changed since Drupal 11.0. MariaDB is raised from 10.6 and PostgreSQL from 16.
Composer
Drupal recommends the latest secure release of Composer, 2.9.3.
Trump says Greenland is defended by dog sleds (true). But under royal decree, Denmark’s small military presence must put up a fight if attacked.
The post Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland appeared first on The Intercept.
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”
I sent an Instagram post to my daughter recently, an apology for some of the ways I’d mothered her before I knew she was autistic. I’d already run the reel of regret in my head many times, remembering flickers of moments when I’d sidestepped her distress or pushed the “ignore” button on her cries. She’s our firstborn, and her dad and I had been advised that toddlers, then preschoolers, and even some school-aged children who threw “tantrums” needed to learn their caregivers would not cave to every desire or demand. Okay, that seemed to make sense. People were always warning us that a kid who hears five “no’s” and then an exhausted “yes” has your number. You’re cooked.