Advice We would like to inform you of the tentative dates for the upcoming GovCMS Drupal 11 (D11) release and deployment
Thank you to everyone that has completed testing. The official preview period ended on 7 October 2026. However, will keep the preview environments available for you to continue reviewing next week. In parallel we will completing our final regression testing on the release.
The final release date is subject to change, as it will be determined by the testing outcomes. The date will be confirmed when the distribution is released and the release notes are expected to be sent on Monday 19 October 2026.
As a reminder, a SaaS deployment block is in place ONLY while we update the production branches. During this time, you will still be able to develop and deploy to non-production feature branches. We are wanting to give you as much lead time as possible, should you need to adjust your timeframes. PaaS deployments schedules are not impacted.
Deployment schedule: - Deployment to commence from 6am Tuesday 20 October 2026 and will be conducted throughout the daytime. - Production branches completed by 10am Wednesday 21 October 2026 - Non-Production branches completed by 10am Thursday 22 October 2026
Posted Oct 09, 2026 - 10:16 AEDT
This scheduled maintenance affects: GovCMS Projects (Individual websites).