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Thu, 15/01/2026 - 22:29

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.

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Thu, 15/01/2026 - 10:32
COLD BEER SOUP ½ cup currants½ cup white raisinsHot water1 quart beer or ale⅔ cup sugar½ cup pumpernickel bread crumbs1 lemon, sliced1 orange, sliced1 stick cinnamon12 cloves Cover currants and raisins with hot water and let stand until plump and soft; drain. Add beer and stir in remaining ingredients. Refrigerate 3-5 hours, stirring occasionally. Remove […]
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Thu, 15/01/2026 - 05:25

“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

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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.

Created
Thu, 15/01/2026 - 04:27

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.

Created
Thu, 15/01/2026 - 01:00

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.”

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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.