OpenFed
OpenFed is a multilingual Drupal distribution designed for accessibility and compliance with European standards like GDPR. It provides pre-defined content types, an advanced text editor, enhanced search capabilities, and modules for layout customization and security.
OpenFed is a general-purpose, multilingual Drupal 7 to Drupal 10 distribution. It has a strong focus on accessibility and it follows European guidelines for several topics, like GDPR.
It is developed by the Belgian Federal Public Service Policy and Support (BOSA) as part of the Fast2Web offering.
Compatibility
Each Openfed release is pinned to a specific Drupal core version to assure that all the patches and modules work as expected.
Each major release of Openfed targets a major release of Drupal core and, on Openfed 8.x and above, each minor release targets a minor release of Drupal core.
See the following table for which Openfed versions are compatible with which versions of core:
Included in this distribution (7.x)
- Pre-defined content types for meetings, jobs etc (available as Feature)
- An advanced web text editor (CKEditor)
- Support for advanced search (Apache Solr, Autocomplete and Attachments modules)
- Several modules for customizing layout (Display Suite, Field Group, Weight)
- Modules for improving security (Secure Login, Security Kit, Username Enumeration Prevention)
Requirements (7.x)
- PHP 5.3.5 (or greater) is recommended
- A PHP memory_limit set to 192 - 320M (depending on the number of modules)
- An HTTPS-enabled webserver (e.g. Apache)
Security warning (7.x)
This release of Openfed uses an old version of workbench_moderation, which is not the one recommended by the module maintainers, but which is required due to retro-compatibility issues not fixed on most recent versions of the module.
More info at https://www.drupal.org/node/2824607
Installation
- Make sure HTTPS is enabled on your webserver (installation defaults to enabling HTTPS and will fail unless "disable HTTPS" is checked in the installer)
Recommended Installation (13.6.x)
We highly recommend using Composer to build and maintain your Openfed-based project’s codebase.
composer create-project openfed/openfed-project:~13.6.* MYPROJECT --no-interaction
For more information on creating and maintaining your Openfed project with composer, see our Openfed Project README.
You can also download and install Openfed from a tarball (links below), but this is no longer the recommended method and will likely be deprecated in the future.
Credits
Initially developed by Blue4You and currently maintained by Soprasteria and sponsored by FPS BOSA DG Digital Transformation.
Depends on
Dependencies of the latest stable release
- Admin Toolbar
- Admin Toolbar Content Languages
- Admin Toolbar admin_toolbar_tools
- Antibot
- Chaos Tool Suite (ctools)
- Decorative Image Widget
- Entity API
- External Links
- Honeypot
- Link Attributes widget
- Linkit
- 403 to 404
- Metatag
- Moderated Content Bulk Publish
- OpenFed openfed_administration
- Override Node Options
- Pathauto
- Redirect
- Role Delegation
- Super Login
- Token
- username_enumeration_prevention
- block Drupal core
- config Drupal core
- content_moderation Drupal core
- content_translation Drupal core
- contextual Drupal core
- datetime Drupal core
- dynamic_page_cache Drupal core
- editor Drupal core
- file Drupal core
- help Drupal core
- image Drupal core
- link Drupal core
- media Drupal core
- node Drupal core
- options Drupal core
- page_cache Drupal core
- path Drupal core
- role_delegation Drupal core
- taxonomy Drupal core
- toolbar Drupal core
- user Drupal core
- views Drupal core
Required by
1 tracked project depends on this one
- OpenFed 6 sites
Activity
Release Timeline
Releases
| Version | Type | Core | Notes | Release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13.6.6 | Stable | Jul 29, 2026 | |||
| 13.6.5 | Stable | Jun 9, 2026 | |||
| 12.6.4 | Stable | Jun 9, 2026 | |||
| 13.6.4 | Stable | Apr 9, 2026 | |||
| 12.6.3 | Stable | Apr 8, 2026 | |||
| 13.6.3 | Stable | Mar 12, 2026 | |||
| 13.6.2 | Stable | Feb 26, 2026 | |||
| 12.6.2 | Stable | Feb 25, 2026 | |||
| 13.6.1 | Stable | Feb 9, 2026 | |||
| 12.6.1 | Stable | Feb 3, 2026 | |||
| 13.6.0 | Stable | CKEditor5 support | Jan 21, 2026 | ||
| 12.6.0 | Stable | Jan 20, 2026 | |||
| 12.5.5 | Stable | Jan 20, 2026 | |||
| 12.5.4 | Stable | Jan 15, 2026 | |||
| 12.5.3 | Stable | Dec 10, 2025 | |||
| 12.3.7 | Stable | Dec 10, 2025 | |||
| 12.5.2 | Stable | Nov 13, 2025 | |||
| 12.3.6 | Stable | Nov 13, 2025 | |||
| 12.5.1 | Stable | Nov 7, 2025 | |||
| 12.5.0 | Stable | Nov 6, 2025 | |||
| 12.3.5 | Stable | Nov 6, 2025 | |||
| 12.3.4 | Stable | Oct 21, 2025 | |||
| 12.3.3 | Stable | Sep 10, 2025 | |||
| 12.3.2 | Stable | Sep 9, 2025 | |||
| 12.3.1 | Stable | Mar 13, 2025 | |||
| 12.3.0 | Stable | Feb 20, 2025 | |||
| 12.2.7 | Stable | 10 | Nov 29, 2024 | ||
| 12.2.5 | Stable | 10 | Security release | Oct 28, 2024 | |
| 12.2.4 | Stable | 10 | Oct 3, 2024 | ||
| 12.2.3 | Stable | 10 | Oct 3, 2024 |