DDEV October 2025 Newsletter

🚀 October brings new tools, community contributions, and training opportunities! 🌟 Have ideas for DDEV in 2026? Contact us↗.

What’s New

Upsun/Platform.sh Add-on Released → Configure your local project to match its Upsun equivalent with the new official add-on Read more↗
DDEV on Linux in 10 Minutes → Quick-start guide for Linux users Read more↗
Contributing to ddev.com Training → Learn how to write and contribute blog posts Watch↗

Community Highlights

Metadrop Releases Aljibe: Quality and testing toolkit for Drupal development with DDEV Read more↗ • The Drop Times coverage↗
WordPress Development with ddev pull: Guide to using ddev pull for WordPress projects Read more↗
WebHaven Now Powered by DDEV: Development workflow success story Read more↗
DDEV and PHPStorm’s Node.js Remote Interpreter: Workflow guide for ESLint, Prettier, and more Read more↗

Community Video Tutorials

Eureka Tutoriales: Instala WordPress en local con DDEV en 10 minutos (Spanish) Watch↗
Eureka Tutoriales: Instala phpMyAdmin y Adminer en DDEV (Spanish) Watch↗
Setting up your local environment to work with the Mautic Documentation Watch↗

DDEV Training Continues

Join us for upcoming training sessions for contributors and users. Guest blog contributions are welcome—learn more in our October 9th training session recording!

November 20, 2025 at 10:00 US ET / 16:00 CET — Using DDEV in Windows WSL Add to Google Calendar • Download .ics

Zoom Join Info: Link: Join Zoom Meeting Passcode: 12345

Events & Community

CakeFest in Madrid — Randy presented a DDEV workshop at CakeFest in Madrid. Thanks to everyone who attended!
DrupalCon EU in Vienna — Randy will be at DrupalCon EU in Vienna thanks to sponsorship from Tag1 and Upsun. Catch me to chat about DDEV, join Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, or connect if you’re in the Vienna area. Make an appointment to make sure we see each other!

DDEV Training at TYPO3Camp RheinRuhr

Randy will be presenting DDEV training at TYPO3Camp RheinRuhr in Germany November 7-9. Join us to learn about DDEV or connect if you’re in the area!

Governance: We have a Board!

A Board for DDEV Foundation! — Join us for the November 5 Advisory Group Meeting for
- Final discussion of updated Articles of Incorporation.
- Introduction of new Board members.

Sponsorship Update

As of the v1.24.8 release the daily reminders of DDEV sponsorship status on ddev start have been successful, and we’ve had a number of new sponsors, thank you! Your contributions help us maintain and grow DDEV for the entire community. As of today, the monthly sponsorship commitment is up to 69% of our goal, at $8,231. Thank you! That’s up from 66% and $7,958 last month. → Become a sponsor↗

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Compiled and edited with assistance from Claude Code.