Metadrop: Drupal CLI in core finally landed in 11.4, how and why we got here

Drush is part of almost every serious Drupal project: it rebuilds caches, runs database updates, imports configuration and drives deployments. With Drupal 11.4, core ships its own command-line tool, dr , and the initiative behind it openly aims to replace Drush over time . The tool is still experimental, but the transition has started, and the parts of daily work that depend on Drush, especially CI/CD pipelines and remote operations, will not all move at the same pace.