Following on from my recent article about How To Patch Drupal, this article will explore some more useful commands and additional functionality.

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Overall SummaryOur May 2025 UI Suite community meeting brought together 20 passionate developers and contributors to discuss the exciting progress we're making toward transforming Drupal into the first design system native CMS. We celebrated significant milestones, including Pierre's promotion to provisional front-end framework manager, and showcased groundbreaking work on form API integration with Single Directory Components (SDC). The meeting highlighted our ambitious two-year roadmap and demonstrated how we're revolutionizing the way developers build and manage design systems in Drupal.With major releases on the horizon and innovative features like component-driven form elements becoming reality, we're witnessing a pivotal moment in Drupal's evolution. Our community continues to grow, and the momentum behind our initiatives shows no signs of slowing down.

Overall SummaryOur September monthly meeting marked a pivotal moment for the UI Suite Initiative, with Display Builder reaching its final alpha release (Alpha 5) and preparing to transition into the beta phase. The community-driven project, now supported by 11+ contributors from different agencies, showcased significant progress toward making Drupal the first design system native CMS.

Overall SummaryOur June monthly meeting brought exciting transformational news for the UI Suite ecosystem. We're implementing a major reorganization strategy that will introduce a meta package while maintaining all existing modules as separate, optional components. This change aims to provide both flexibility for individual module users and convenience for those wanting the complete UI Suite experience through a single installation command.

Overall SummaryOur latest monthly meeting showcased the incredible momentum we're building across the UI Suite ecosystem. With 18-20 participants from both sides of the Atlantic, we celebrated Jean's promotion to core maintainer for SDC and Icon APIs while diving deep into groundbreaking developments that are reshaping how we approach design systems in Drupal.The session highlighted two years and a half of consistent progress, featuring live demonstrations of revolutionary tools like UI Patterns UI for simplified component management, UI Patterns Field for content entity integration, and our ambitious new Display Builder that promises to transform how we create layouts. From experimental form API integrations to major theme releases reaching beta status, we're seeing our vision of a unified design system approach becoming reality.

Overall SummaryWe're thrilled to share the exciting developments from our latest UI Suite monthly meeting, where we celebrated major milestones and outlined our ambitious roadmap ahead. After eight years of dedicated work and five years since UI Suite 1, we're finally witnessing UI Suite 2 taking concrete shape with the imminent release of UI Patterns 2.0.0 stable.

Overall SummaryOur 22nd monthly UI Suite meeting brought together community members for an exciting update on the ecosystem's evolution. This session focused heavily on transitions and new developments, with UI Patterns 2 taking center stage as the official version while layout options are being phased out. We're experiencing significant momentum across our entire suite of tools, with multiple modules preparing new branches compatible with UI Patterns 2 and the upcoming UI Icons integration into Drupal core.

Overall SummaryOur 20th monthly meeting marked a significant milestone for the UI Suite Initiative - celebrating two full years of consistent community engagement and progress. This meeting showcased substantial achievements across our entire ecosystem, with major releases and exciting new developments that demonstrate our maturation as a comprehensive design system solution for Drupal.

Overall SummaryOur 21st monthly meeting marked a significant milestone in the UI Suite Initiative's journey. After two years since starting in October 2022, we've officially transitioned from the legacy UI Suite module to promoting UI Patterns 2 as our flagship solution. This meeting highlighted our growing momentum with around 50 UI Patterns 2 users and our position as the second most popular SDC module on Drupal.org.

Overall SummaryOur final monthly meeting of 2024 marked the end of what can only be described as a transformative year for the UI Suite initiative. We've reached significant milestones across all five modules that comprise our complete design system implementation for Drupal, with UI Patterns 2.0 approaching its stable release and the entire ecosystem evolving toward a more mature, component-based architecture.