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How we secured our clients’ Drupal sites with critical PHP security updates

On Tuesday 20 October (Wednesday morning in Australia), the PHP Foundation announced the pending release of fixes for two critical security vulnerabilities in PHP, the language Drupal is written in.

The release was scheduled for 14:00 UTC, which would be 1am for us. This post details how our team prepared and handled the rollout of this release to our clients' sites.

Griffyn HeelsHead of Partnerships

Ai accelerate drupal development blog post

AI accelerates Drupal development. Here's why human review still comes first

We've spent the last year building an AI-assisted development pipeline for daily use on client projects. Here's what that looks like in practice, and where humans stay firmly in control.

Kim PepperCo-Founder & Tech Director

Building for AI design tools: what Mixtape needed to become legible to Claude Design

When AI design tools started reading codebases to learn a design system, we wanted to know what Mixtape looked like through that lens.

Rikki BochowFront End Developer

Upgrading our frontend tooling blog post

Upgrading our frontend tooling: Vite 8, oxlint and oxfmt

In a previous post, Jack walked through our frontend tooling setup using Vite, Storybook and ESLint. Since then, we've been iterating on that stack.

Rikki BochowFront End Developer

Picking a Drupal service at runtime with Symfony tagged locators

Or in other words - collecting and accessing services from the container, without injecting the whole container.

Lee RowlandsLead Developer

If you're using Twig's raw filter with Drupal, you're doing it wrong

With some recent security advisories for Cross Site Scripting (XSS), it feels like an opportune time to remind those who author Twig templates for Drupal:
If you're using Twig's |raw filter, you're probably doing it wrong

Lee RowlandsLead Developer

How we implemented semantic search on GovCMS

We recently shipped semantic search on GovCMS for Cancer Australia, the national agency for cancer control. It's backed by OpenSearch and AWS Bedrock, with AI-generated answers layered on top of the results. Here's how we built it, and how it's hosted.

Adam BramleyLead Developer

Why PreviousNext signed Drupal's Manifesto for an Open Future

We recently added PreviousNext's name to "A Manifesto for an Open Future," joining 15 other Drupal agency founders and leaders in a public declaration that open source, not closed platforms, is the foundation for the future. Since founding PreviousNext in 2009, we've built our business on that premise, so signing felt less like adopting a new position and more like putting our name to something we've already been doing for 17 years.

Owen LansburyCo-Founder & Company Director

Drupal's certified partners unite for NSW government showcase

Last week, PreviousNext joined forces with fellow Drupal Certified Partners Annex, Morpht and Salsa Digital for a shared booth at the Public Sector Network's Government Innovation Showcase in NSW. We came together to show government agencies what Drupal has to offer, including Drupal CMS, AI, security, and content governance.

Griffyn HeelsHead of Partnerships