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Drupal CMS roadmap
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A Now/Next/Later view of what's shipping and what's coming. "Now" includes estimated delivery dates.

Now • Next • Later
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Items and dates may shift based on user feedback.

Now
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In flight / Delivering soon

Product operations### Product Analytics

Collect anonymous data on usage from end users of Drupal CMS.

ETA: Oct 30, 2026

Developer experience### Use Canvas Brand Kit in site templates

Update Mercury to leverage Canvas Brand Kit, for uploading custom fonts and defining color variables using Canvas CLI and the UI.

ETA: Nov 30, 2026

Developer experience### Updated Design System

Create a modified design system for Drupal CMS using code components first.

ETA: Dec 20, 2026

Developer experience### Launch on command

Add support for deploying Drupal CMS to cloud hosting providers with a single command.

ETA: Dec 20, 2026

Next
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Queued / Under discovery

Developer experience### Documentation improvements

Revisit the Drupal CMS User Guide and improve the documentation and link to further information.

AI### Align Drupal CMS with outside-in AI tooling

When the Tool API is stable, update the Drupal CMS AI implementation to align with the outside-in approach.

Enterprise adoption### Improvements in multilingual

Continue to improve support for mulitlingual sites.

Developer experience### Better support for JavaScript frontends

Easily set up a site using code components or headless, including choosing which frontend technology to use.

Enterprise adoption### Editing CMS content in Canvas

Leverage editable slots on content types as soon as it is available in Canvas.

Later
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Exploring / Longer horizon

Product operations### Ship updates to default configuration

Work with core to provide a mechanism to update a module's default config

Developer experience### Promote new features on existing sites

Implement a method to promote new features and add-ons to users on existing sites.

Enterprise adoption### Advanced Content Workflows

Adopt the Canvas workspace-based moderation for advanced workflows.

AI### Ensure AI onboarding is simple

Whatever the AI tools that are available are obvious, easy to set up and use.

Developer experience### Onboarding checklist

Add a dynamic checklist to the dashboard to assist new users.

Strategic outcomes
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Based on the product strategy, these short- and medium-term outcomes to drive prioritization of the roadmap items.

Builders choose Drupal CMS
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The Drupal CMS product strategy is to set a new standard for what a CMS can do. Developers and AI agents should build with Drupal by preference, because it's the best platform for turning great ideas into great digital experiences.

Onboarding with ease

Builders new to the platform can use Drupal CMS to get started quickly, with time to value measured in hours, not days.

AI-first tooling

Every workflow and action that a user can take in Drupal CMS can also be completed by an AI agent, with a human in the loop.

Launch anywhere

Drupal CMS is easy to provision and run on a modern hosting platform with a robust, generous, and production-ready free or low cost tier (e.g. Vercel, Fly.io, or Render).

Updates that uplift

When you choose Drupal CMS, updates mean more than just maintenance. You get product improvements and innovations delivered regularly.

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