July 9, 2025

The YMCA Website Services Community Call from July 9th, 2025 featured updates from the IT Care team and Y-USA leadership on distribution maintenance, security updates, and the roadmap ahead.

Agenda items include:

  • Drupal 10.5 Core Upgrade (Completed)
  • Drupal 11 Progress Update
  • Improvements to Schedules
  • Security Patches & Bug Fixes
  • Future AI Integration Discussion
  • Q&A with Community

Key Highlights

Y-USA Commitment (Tom, Y-USA)

  • IT Care retained to maintain the code distribution through 2025
  • Commitment to keeping distribution patched, secure, and stable
  • Focus on security and functionality updates from the community
  • Pause on new functionality in 2025, with plans for 2026 still in development

Drupal 10.5 Core Upgrade (Dmytro, IT Care)

Completed this week - key improvements include:

  • Enhanced core functionality and latest CKEditor features
  • Membership Calculator: Excludes unpublished branch locations from display
  • Media Library: Improved content workflow for editors
  • Content Manager Permissions: Enhanced security for bulk operations
  • Schedules (PEF): Support for classes with special symbols

Security Patches:

  • Unauthorized code injection prevention
  • Improper access control fixes
  • Malicious code execution vulnerability closed

New Features:

  • Expanding menu on mouse hover option
  • Display-only hours option for branch pages
  • Branch hours overlay showing all holidays (not just upcoming)
  • Mobile burger menu fixes for sub-pages

Drupal 11 Progress (Andrii, IT Care)

  • Alpha release: Expected in 1-2 weeks for early adopters
  • Focus: Small Y Template + Standard installation (covers 80-90% of sites)
  • No upgrade path in alpha - for testing and development sandboxes only
  • Stable release: Planned for Q3-Q4 2025 after community feedback
  • CKEditor 5 integration means many custom features now covered by Drupal core
  • Performance improvements visible in Drupal 11

Important: Lily and Rose themes officially deprecated in 10.5 and removed from Drupal 11 distribution. Still available for use, but no longer supported by core team.

Preparing for the Future

  • Drupal 11 baseline opens doors for future AI integrations
  • Feedback requested: Share AI ideas and requirements to ycloud@ymca.net
  • Future workshops and demos planned for later in 2025/2026
  • No commitments yet, but community input welcomed

Sandboxes Update (Andrii)

  • Production sandboxes temporarily down due to 10.5 release (will be fixed within 1-2 days)
  • Development sandboxes for Drupal 11 coming in next couple of weeks
  • Production sandboxes intended to stay up permanently for community testing

Recording

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