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- Membership Calculator: Excludes unpublished branch locations from display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
Resources
- Feedback & Ideas: ycloud@ymca.net
- Documentation: ds-docs.y.org
- Website: ds.ymca.org
- GitHub: YCloudYUSA/yusaopeny
- Slack: Community support channels (monitored by Tom Scarboro and team)