DDEV July 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to the July 2025 DDEV Newsletter
This month: Downgrading Terminus for old PHP, FrankenPHP, Advisory Group meeting and Governance proposal, Shopware Storefront and Admin Watchers, Writing your first Drupal 10 Functional Test, and more.
What’s New
- How to Downgrade Terminus in DDEV’s Web Container and Customize Other Bundled Tools
A guest blog by Bill Seremetis explaining the problem with an old PHP version and Pantheon’s Terminus, and how to fix it. → Read more↗ - Experimenting with FrankenPHP in DDEV
Stas Zhuk explains two ways to use FrankenPHP in DDEV. → Read more↗ - July 2025 DDEV Advisory Group Meeting meeting notes and recording! → Read more↗.
Community Tutorials
- From DevOps Headaches to Seamless Onboarding: How Dropping Chocolatey Made DDEV the Perfect Fit for a Client’s Drupal Team → Read more↗
- Shopware Storefront and Admin Watchers with DDEV → Read more↗
- How to Write Your First Functional Test in Drupal 10 → Read more↗
Governance & Roadmap
- Apache Foundation-inspired Project Management Committee Exploration
See a proposed early update to the DDEV Foundation’s Articles of Incorporation, aiming us at governance like the Backdrop CMS folks have → Details↗
Sponsorship Status
- Monthly average income down slightly from $7,809 to $7,759 (65% of $12,000 goal). Every contribution helps sustain our work—thank you! → Become a sponsor↗
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