Get Hands-On with the Drupal CMS – No Technical Skills Needed!

The Drupal community is making their final refinements to Drupal CMS ahead of the much anticipated official launch on January 15th 2025. Since Dries announced the ambitious plans for project Starshot only in May, astounding progress has been made. 

A Drupal CMS Release Candidate is now available to download and install now. This allows those with technical skills to test and provide valuable feedback to the teams behind Drupal CMS.

What about those with non-technical skills?

To help marketers, content creators, designers curious about Drupal CMS, we’re happy to announce we have made freely available an online version. It’s just a few clicks away.

Anyone wishing to test drive the Drupal CMS release candidate can now do so within seconds by completing this short form requesting an instance. You will then have 1 hour to explore at your own pace the host of new features Drupal CMS has to offer, and are welcome to try as many times as you wish.

Trial Drupal CMS your way

We've prepared three versions for you to choose from so you can experience Drupal CMS your preferred way:

1. Full Demo - Drupal CMS with all recipes plus example content via a new recipe we have released on Drupal.org.
2. Drupal CMS with all official recipes installed.
3. Drupal CMS via the installer - choose the recipes you want to try.

We want as many people to test out Drupal CMS as possible. Your feedback will help make sure by day of release it truly is the most user-friendly version of Drupal yet!

We will update the codebases on a daily basis to ensure you always have access to a trial experience on the latest version of DrupalCMS. This service will remain available after the January 15th launch date so you can continue to try out new features as they become available throughout 2025 and beyond. So go ahead and try Drupal CMS for yourself today!