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Jan 26, 22:44 UTC
Resolved - From 20:45 UTC to 21:06 UTC, users may have experienced issue affecting the Cloud Control Panel, API, and related services.
Our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue is fully resolved, and all systems are now operating normally.
If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Jan 26, 21:27 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the issue affecting the Cloud Control Panel, API, and related services.
We are observing recovery, and users should now be able to access their accounts and use the API without errors.
We are continuing to monitor the situation closely and will provide an update once full resolution is confirmed.
Jan 26, 21:06 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue impacting multiple services including the Cloud Control Panel and API.
Users may encounter errors when accessing their accounts or using the API.
We are actively working to resolve this issue and will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available.

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Hi all. I've been playing with 11.3.2 and am curious why Gin is not the default admin theme, wasn't it supposed to be default for 11.3?
Also I tried to get namespaces working as I'm using storybook and want to use the components in my templates but I can't seem to get the namespaces to resolve.
i.e. atoms: src/components/atoms
Anyone have any ideas what could be causing them not to work?
This is a release focussing on bug fixing, in particular regressions from the release 1.28.0.
Selected new features ✨:
Improved performance 🏎️:
Many bug fixes 🐛
This release has been made by @Alkarex, @Frenzie, @Inverle and newcomers @ciro-mota, @eveiscoull, @hackerman70000, @Hufschmidt, @johan456789, @martgnz, @mmeier86, @netsho, @neuhaus, @RobLoach, @rupakbajgain.
Full changelog:
transliterator_transliterate fallback (when the php-intl extension is unavailable) #8427lastUserModified database column also during mark-as-read action #8346session.cookie-lifetime #8446CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING #8376, simplepie#960, simplepie#962<template> element #8443.gitignore to ignore installed extensions #8372
Jan 27, 13:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jan 27, 09:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jan 25, 09:28 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2026-01-27 09:00 UTC
End: 2026-01-27 12:00 UTC
During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the NYC3 region.
Expected impact:
We do not anticipate any downtime for Droplets or Droplet-related services, including Managed Databases, Load Balancers, App Platform, and Managed Kubernetes, as this maintenance has been carefully designed and tested to be seamless. In the unlikely event that an undetected misconfiguration occurs, a subset of customers could experience temporary network disruption. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.
If you have any questions related to this maintenance, please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket
I've recently took on a new client, who has a 10+ year old Drupal 7 site, with 10+ years of ... decisions...
The file system is radio active disaster zone of files that I am 100% sure are mostly unused...
We just migrated the site to D11, and moved everything in to the media library, but theres still 12+GB of files that, as I said, are probably mostly not needed anymore.
Does anyone have a process, or documentation, or a guide of any kind on how to go about progromatically analyzing the content model, the actual usage in the database, with some sort of process to look for each file, and process them in some way to know which files are safe to delete?
Thanks!
Drupal version is 10.6.1. The site gives this WSOD:
The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later.
It was a test site with about a month of work done. No backups, never thought this could be a problem with Drupal in 2026.
Un-installed rules module with composer but error remains.
Is there any chance of recovery?

I'm trying to help a colleague find a local developer or agency in Ottawa that can help her update the Drupal version on a website which is on an older version that is no longer supported.
In addition to this immidiate update and perhaps some immediate reconfiguration of the website, she wants someone available for occasional updates or support on a per task basis without having to pay a monthly retainer or fee.
Does anyone have any advice on local independent contractors or agencies that would do this sort of work?
| | When I started learning Drupal as a WordPress developer, I quickly realized it is not just a different admin panel. Drupal does not let you build pages quickly. It makes you think in structured content, reusable components, and system-level design. The first challenge was my local setup. I used Laragon like I do for WordPress, but image uploads and file handling kept failing. Switching to XAMPP finally made things stable and let me focus on Drupal itself. Creating a Programs listing page was another eye-opener. Views gave me the data, but rendering it correctly required understanding how Views, Twig, and layout work together. At first it felt frustrating. Once I accepted the workflow, structure first and layout later, it started to click. Learning Layout Builder was similar. Unlike WordPress page builders, Drupal made me think in reusable blocks and layout regions instead of designing sections visually. By the end I understood that Drupal does not aim for speed. It is built for consistency and structure. It took time, but the process taught me to think differently about building websites. [link] [comments] |
| | When I started learning Drupal as a WordPress developer, I quickly realized it is not just a different admin panel. Drupal does not let you build pages quickly. It makes you think in structured content, reusable components, and system-level design. The first challenge was my local setup. I used Laragon like I do for WordPress, but image uploads and file handling kept failing. Switching to XAMPP finally made things stable and let me focus on Drupal itself. Creating a Programs listing page was another eye-opener. Views gave me the data, but rendering it correctly required understanding how Views, Twig, and layout work together. At first it felt frustrating. Once I accepted the workflow, structure first and layout later, it started to click. Learning Layout Builder was similar. Unlike WordPress page builders, Drupal made me think in reusable blocks and layout regions instead of designing sections visually. By the end I understood that Drupal does not aim for speed. It is built for consistency and structure. It took time, but the process taught me to think differently about building websites. [link] [comments] |

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Happy birthday to Drupal! On January 14th, Drupal turned 25. Dries wrote up a nice reflection on those 25 years. In that, he wrote this
6. Nobody fully understands Drupal anymore, including me
After 25 years and tens of thousands of contributors, Drupal has grown beyond any single person's understanding. I also google Drupal's documentation. I'm strangely proud of that, because it's how I know it has become something bigger than any one of us.
Don't feel like you need to know it all. Grasp the fundamentals, Google the rest.
I a using chatgpt and gemini to help with upgrading some very complicated drupal7 to drupal10, and it works, but it takes lots conversations, am wondering anyone has experience by using ai agent to help with site/module upgrade automatically ? Thnks

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