DDEV June 2026: Upsun transfers DDEV trademarks, lots of community news,

Upsun Completes DDEV Trademark Transfer

Upsun has finished transferring the DDEV trademark to the DDEV Foundation — a milestone for the DDEV project’s long-term independence and health. This is a hugely generous and important step for DDEV. (At one time before Upsun/Platform’s involvement, we were ready to fork and rename the project due to trademark issues.) Read our announcement↗. And see Upsun’s generous explanation as well: DDEV is in Good Hands↗.

What’s New

coder.ddev.com: Drupal Contrib → The hosted Coder.ddev.com environment now supports Drupal contrib projects via the DDEV Drupal Contrib add-on workflow.
Joomla Explicit Support → Joomla users have loved DDEV for years, but in DDEV v1.25.2+ we have an explicit joomla project type. Community member renekreijveld also maintains the ddev-joomla↗ add-on for extended Joomla workflows.
mayfly.live → DDEV-based online preview environments, in open beta.
[Drupal AI Learner’s Club AI Safety Session] → Randy was co-host of AI Security ‘Opportunities’: Guardrails, Sandboxes, and Keeping Your Agents on a Leash and introduced a couple of the many add-ons.

New macOS DDEV GUIs

Two new community-built macOS GUI tools have appeared for DDEV:

ddevbar → A macOS menu bar app for managing DDEV projects with a single click — start, stop, and restart without touching the terminal. klemens.ee/ddevbar↗
DDEVUI → A native macOS app (Swift/SwiftUI) that puts a visual front-end on DDEV. github.com/dave-agilepixel/DDEV-Apple-GUI↗

Stanford WebCamp: Pre-Flight Checklist for Drupal Developers

Bob McDonald (UltraBob) presented “Pre-Flight Checklist: Local Code Quality for Drupal Developers” at Stanford WebCamp, covering the ddev-drupal-code-quality add-on for running Drupal.org CI checks locally before pushing. View session↗.

DrupalDevDays Athens — Video Now Available

Community member Bill Seremetis (bserem)‘s “From Chaos to Consistency” DevOps talk from DrupalDevDays Athens 2026 is now on YouTube. The talk covers how DDEV add-ons work as a file/feature delivery mechanism for standardizing team projects. Watch on YouTube↗ • Slides↗.

Community Highlights

DDEV Sponsorship Data Story — A new post on ddev.com tells the story of how a LinkedIn message from Anoop John at TheDropTimes turned into live, auto-updating sponsorship displays across DDEV properties and a public data feed. Read it↗

Open Source AI Contributions — Amber Matz wrote about the complexity AI-generated contributions are bringing to open source projects, using a conversation with Randy as a central example. Worth a read for all maintainers and contributors and AI users. Read↗

Community Tutorials from Around the Web

Getting Started with DDEV for Drupal Development → WebWash covers installation, project setup, commands, database management, and debugging with DDEV and Drupal. Read on WebWash↗
DDEV Linux Installation with WordPress → Step-by-step guide to installing DDEV on Ubuntu and setting up a WordPress project with WP-CLI. Read on rueegger.me in German↗
DDEV + a-blog cms (Japanese) → A guide to using DDEV as a local development environment for a-blog cms, covering multi-project management and Mailpit. Read on kazumich.com↗

Governance

The DDEV board and community are working on updated sponsorship tiers and improved communication around them. Discussion at ddev/sponsorship-data#42↗ and ddev.com#647↗.

The first-ever DDEV Foundation Board meeting will be June 17!

The next DDEV board and advisory group meeting is July 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM US Mountain / 10:00 AM US Eastern / 16:00 CEST. Add to Google Calendar • See the agenda.

Sponsorship Update

Sponsorship is at 84% of the goal! — thank you to everyone who has contributed!

April 2026: ~$9429/month (79% of goal)

June 2026: ~$10,075/month (84% of goal)

If DDEV has helped your team, consider sponsoring. → Become a sponsor↗

Statistical Tidbits of the Month

DDEV has exceeded 20,000 weekly users some weeks! — live graph.

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Compiled and edited with assistance from Claude Code.