Drupal is a powerful new suite of tools, and the strongest link in your new content supply chain.
Interact with countless applications, thanks to REST-first native web services.
Use progressive decoupling to break free from back-end restrictions without sacrificing security and accessibility.
Deliver faster, with enhanced entity caching and better integration with CDNs and reverse proxies.
With Drupal, you could build almost any integrated experience you could imagine.
Features
Simplicity for editors
Turn great ideas into great experiences.
Leave your desktop behind and create compelling content on more modern devices than ever.
Work efficiently with better previews and drag-and-drop image uploads.
And when you gotta make quick changes, choose in-context editing and use only the tools you need.
Control how data is displayed without using a single line of code.
Structure content with more field types, and add SEO-friendly meaning with native Schema.org markup.
Make creating and managing content a great experience too.
Semantic HTML5 helps you create interactions—even ones with dynamic content—that are more usable.
Plus, Drupal now adopts more WAI-ARIA practices.
you’ve got the option to make content structures easier to understand for people with disabilities.
Harmony in deployment
Fine-tune your configuration management with an all-new system.
It’s now much easier to move configuration changes between environments.
That means better deployments and more sophisticated maintenance are at your fingertips.
Build with precise control over the integrity of views, content types, user roles, and more.
Store configuration data consistently, in a central place.
The power to unleash it all is now a standard Drupal feature.
Proudly found elsewhere
Maximize Drupal’s flexibility with object-oriented code and the latest PHP standards.
Some of the best-known technologies are now part of Drupal.
Say goodbye to PHPTemplate; rely on much more readable code when theming with Twig.
And use simpler, more unified APIs to add power to your modules and themes.
Recipe system improvements
The Recipe system allows packages to be configured with dependencies in a repeatable way.
Drupal 11.1 now allows recipes to take user input (for example, API keys for remote services).
This will also make Drupal’s code easier to understand for PHP developers familiar with other projects.
All runtime core hooks have been converted to object-oriented implementations.
With this new functionality, magic global functions like the following will no longer be needed.
New icon management API
A dedicated API has been added to allow modules and themes to define icon packs.
Within each pack is a series of icons each with a unique identifier that the system can then use.
Modules and themes can alter icon packs.
In this release, date formats were made easier to read.
This may now be used by contributed modules and will be enabled for core entity types in future releases.
PHP 8.4 was released in November, and Drupal 11.1 fully supports it.
Many of the underlying improvements introduced in Drupal core will help compose an improved user experience in Drupal CMS.
The first release candidate of Drupal CMS was already based on Drupal 11.1 RC.
