What's New in DDEV for TYPO3 Folks (July 2026)

Here’s our latest TYPO3-with-DDEV news wrap-up, following up April’s roundup. What you need to know:

I think you’ve all seen the change AI has brought in interaction with software. It’s mighty effective in answering questions, often correctly, and it does a great job with DDEV and TYPO3 issues, because both are so widely and openly documented.

But remember what is happening here! We need to hear from you to understand your experience. We love to hear from you! All this is not just about you getting an answer to move forward, it’s about maintainers getting the feedback they need about frictions, missing features, and inadequate documentation. When you have a question or problem with DDEV, it’s OK to get an answer from AI, but please ask us and help us understand it as well. Join us in Discord or the issue queue. We delight in interacting with you.

Sharing Your TYPO3 Project with ddev share (Video) shows how you can share your local project for review or collaboration or discussion with anybody on the internet.

Git Worktree with TYPO3 (video) demonstrates how you can run multiple DDEV projects from the same Git repository at the same time, with separate code changes, databases and URLs. Even when projects hardcode a full URL in config/sites/*/config.yaml’s base, a simple set of post-start hooks can fix that. The fix there is elegant once you see it: a pre-share hook strips base down to just its path (dropping the scheme and hostname entirely), so it matches whatever hostname the request actually arrives on, and a post-share hook restores the original value afterward.

coder.ddev.com runs a full DDEV environment in the cloud, no local Docker required. TYPO3 Projects on Coder.ddev.com walks through using it with the freeform template.

Unlike ddev share’s temporary tunnel, coder.ddev.com gives each workspace a stable *.coder.ddev.com subdomain via Traefik host-header routing, which maps that stable external hostname to the right project every time.

Access to coder.ddev.com is a perk for organizations that sponsor DDEV at $100+/month (b13 is one partner in the TYPO3 space), but individuals can also request access directly.

DDEV v1.25.3 is out, with ddev start about 28% faster than v1.25.2, and a similar improvement to ddev stop, ddev restart, and ddev poweroff.

Podman and Docker Rootless, introduced as experimental in v1.25.0, are now stable. Other changes include a built-in Docker Compose SDK (no more separate docker-compose binary to manage), MariaDB 12.3 LTS support, and several Node.js fixes.

A few new ddev utility commands help track down environment problems:

• ddev utility port-diagnose checks whether another process is already occupying a port DDEV needs (HTTP, HTTPS, Mailpit, XHGui), including separately on WSL2’s Linux and Windows sides.
• ddev utility tls-diagnose checks mkcert installation, OS trust store setup, and live HTTPS connectivity — useful when a browser doesn’t trust your DDEV project’s certificate.
• ddev utility check-custom-config lists custom configuration files in your project, flagging ones that don’t look like they came from a recognized add-on, so you know what’s overriding DDEV’s defaults.
• ddev utility addon-update-checker, for anyone maintaining a DDEV add-on (like the TYPO3 ones below), checks that your add-on’s scripts and tooling are current with DDEV’s add-on template.

A few TYPO3-specific DDEV tools worth knowing about:

• ddev/ddev-typo3-solr — An add-on for the Apache Solr (standalone or SolrCloud) integration for the Apache Solr for TYPO3 (solr) TYPO3 extension, maintained in the official ddev GitHub organization.
• dkd-dobberkau/ddev-typo3-password — The add-on provides a ddev typo3-password command for resetting an existing backend user’s password without needing to use ddev mailpit to confirm it.
• Host Variants (host_variants) — TYPO3 extension to manage which hostnames TYPO3’s router accepts, an alternative to editing base for multisites or sites with explicit URL in base.

Two governance milestones landed recently. Upsun completed the transfer of the DDEV trademark to the DDEV Foundation, so DDEV’s name and identity are now fully owned by the community-governed foundation rather than any external entity. And the DDEV Foundation’s Board of Directors had its first meeting in June. The board includes TYPO3 Core Team Lead Benni Mack, alongside Drupal and Backdrop community members.

• ochorocho’s GitLab Runner DDEV executor runs GitLab CI/CD jobs inside isolated, rootless-Docker DDEV environments, one unprivileged Linux user and Docker daemon per project, for running untrusted code safely on shared runner infrastructure.

• Knecht (in German) is a third-party automation dashboard that boots up your existing DDEV projects and runs maintenance workflows, like security updates, bugfixes, and database migrations, against a real running environment, producing a pull request with a preview link at the end. It uses the DDEV configuration already in your project, with no extra tooling required. Knecht is looking for beta testers among agencies running multiple DDEV-based projects, offering free setup and OpenCode credit in exchange for feedback.

If you’re working on something DDEV-related in the TYPO3 space, or have run into a rough edge we should know about, reach out on the DDEV Discord or any of the other support channels — we’d like these updates to reflect what’s actually useful to you, not just what we happened to notice.

Thanks for nearly a decade of collaboration between DDEV and TYPO3 and for your continued support of DDEV.