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drupal/core-recommended
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Locked core dependencies; require this project INSTEAD OF drupal/core.

11.3.5(2mo ago)6939.5M—7.2%31[2 issues](https://github.com/drupal/core-recommended/issues)20GPL-2.0-or-later

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drupal/core-recommended
=======================

[](#drupalcore-recommended)

This project is for use with a Composer-managed Drupal site. It is recommended that all Composer-managed Drupal sites use this project.

Require this project *instead of* the [drupal/core](https://github.com/drupal/core)subtree split in order to guarantee that all of the dependencies from `drupal/core` will be included in your Drupal site at exactly the same version that was tested with the version of Drupal you are currently using.

The consequences of *not* using this project is that Drupal's dependencies may "float up" to more recent versions than were tested with Drupal when you use Composer to upgrade your Drupal site. Occasionally, new dependency versions introduce bugs in Drupal. While these sorts of errors are usually corrected fairly quickly, it can still be quite disruptive to be one of the first people encountering one of these bugs. Using the recommended dependencies avoids this problem by only using dependency versions that have already been tested with Drupal.

Upgrading
---------

[](#upgrading)

When using this project, upgrade your Drupal site as follows:

```
$ composer update drupal/core-recommended --with-dependencies

```

This will update `drupal/core` and any needed dependencies.

Running a simple `composer update` will also update `drupal/core`, all of Drupal's dependencies (to the correct tested versions), and all of your contrib modules and other dependencies.

References
----------

[](#references)

This project is derived from the original community project [webflo/drupal-core-strict](https://github.com/webflo/drupal-core-strict). It was generated from tools derived from [webflo/package-generator-drupal](https://github.com/webflo/package-generator-drupal)and [webflo/package-generator](https://github.com/webflo/package-generator).

###  Health Score

72

—

ExcellentBetter than 100% of packages

Maintenance93

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity65

Solid adoption and visibility

Community41

Growing community involvement

Maturity78

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 50% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~5 days

Total

500

Last Release

55d ago

Major Versions

10.6.1 → 11.3.12025-12-18

10.6.2 → 11.3.32026-02-05

10.6.3 → 11.3.42026-03-05

10.6.4 → 11.3.x-dev2026-03-06

10.6.x-dev → 11.x-dev2026-03-24

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/27288432?v=4)[Drupal Infrastructure](/maintainers/Drupal-Infrastructure)[@Drupal-Infrastructure](https://github.com/Drupal-Infrastructure)

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Top Contributors

[![greg-1-anderson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/612191?v=4)](https://github.com/greg-1-anderson "greg-1-anderson (4 commits)")[![Drupal-Infrastructure](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/27288432?v=4)](https://github.com/Drupal-Infrastructure "Drupal-Infrastructure (2 commits)")[![Rade333](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/922901?v=4)](https://github.com/Rade333 "Rade333 (1 commits)")[![ryanaslett](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/101536?v=4)](https://github.com/ryanaslett "ryanaslett (1 commits)")

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