Module Development

Drupal 11.5 introduces Drupal 11.5 library ordering, a new feature that allows libraries to be loaded before or after another library without declaring a dependency. The new before and after keys make asset ordering cleaner, reduce unnecessary dependencies, and provide a more maintainable way to control JavaScript and CSS loading.

The Drupal 11.5 Route title property introduces a small but welcome improvement to the routing system. Route attributes now support a top-level title property, making route definitions cleaner and allowing simple dynamic page titles to be defined directly alongside the route.

Drupal 11.4 brings one of the most significant developer experience improvements in recent years: a built-in command-line interface that can discover commands provided by Drupal modules.

Until now, Drupal Core included a limited CLI (core/scripts/drupal) that only supported a handful of core commands. Most developers relied entirely on Drush for command-line workflows.

Drupal 11.5 introduces another significant step toward modern PHP development by allowing form routes to be defined directly on form classes using PHP attributes.

Until now, every custom form required a corresponding entry in a module's .routing.yml file. With this new feature, many of those YAML definitions can be eliminated, making code easier to maintain and keeping route configuration close to the class it belongs to.