Drupal 10.2: Discover New Features and Improvements

By tamnguyen Category: Drupal Version

Drupal 10.2 brings exciting upgrades that make your website management easier and more intuitive.  Here's a breakdown of what's new:

Content Creation Made Simple

  • Visual Field Selection: Choose new field types with a user-friendly visual list instead of a dropdown.
  • One-Step Field Settings: Manage all your field settings from a single, streamlined form.
  • Effortless Menu & Taxonomy Organization: Add child items to menus and taxonomies in a click.
  • Media Revision Control: Access a dedicated interface for managing and reviewing past media revisions.
  • Language-Specific CKEditor: Configure the text editor to display only the languages your site supports.


Flexible Blocks and File Names

  • Customizable Blocks: Show or hide blocks based on website errors (like 404 or 403).
  • Clean File Names: Sanitize uploaded file names with options for whitespace removal, transliteration, and more.


Plus, Enjoy These Benefits

  • Optimized Permissions: Find the right permission quickly with a new filter on the permissions page.
  • Powerful Performance: Experience faster content rendering and better caching.
  • PHP 8.3 Ready: Drupal 10.2 seamlessly works with the latest PHP version.
  • Modern Development Tools: Benefit from PHP attributes for improved plugin creation.
  • Project News at Your Fingertips: Stay informed with the built-in Announcements Feed.


Developer-Friendly Enhancements

  • Performance Testing: Automate performance metric testing with the new PerformanceTestBase.
  • Cross-Version Compatibility: Write code compatible with multiple Drupal versions using DeprecationHelper::backwardsCompatibleCall().
  • More to Explore: Discover improvements in BigPipe, the Renderer, configuration validation, service creation, and HTML handling.


Ready to Upgrade?


We think you'll love the new features and improvements in Drupal 10.2. Let us know if you'd like assistance with the upgrade!