Bye bye drupalisms! Propelling Drupal into a modern PHP ecosystem

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Drupal claims a concrete modernization: core now uses Symfony 6.2 and supports PHP 8.2, Drupal 10 ships December and powers ~1.8% of the web, and upgrades follow Symfony release cycles so Drupal 11 is predictable in two years. Community tools actually change: migrated issue queue and CI to GitLab with live previews and faster runners, composer one‑liners, DDEV and Gitpod for local/dev environments, automated checks like Upgrade Status and Drupal Rector find incompatibilities, and event subscribers and Twig replace many legacy hooks and PHP templates.

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1. 0:00Modernizing Drupal
2. 2:30Drupal’s history
3. 13:50Drupalisms defined
4. 24:06Modernizing community tools
5. 31:37Modern PHP in Drupal
6. 41:13Drupal security cycles
7. 45:50Usability for site builders
8. 54:39Drupal’s future
9. 56:50Q&A

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