All notable changes to the AdminLTE 4 Drupal theme are documented here. The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
1.0.0-beta1 - 2026-06-29
First public release. Official AdminLTE 4 admin theme for Drupal 10.3+ / 11 — Bootstrap 5.3, vanilla JS (no jQuery), light & dark modes, fully self-contained (no CDN). Verified on a clean Drupal 11.3.13 install (standard profile, PHP 8.5): every core admin screen renders with the AdminLTE shell in both colour modes, with no errors or warnings in the log.
- AdminLTE 4 application shell (
html.html.twig,page.html.twig) mapping Drupal regions onto the navbar, sidebar, content header, content and footer. - Self-contained, locally bundled assets:
adminlte.css(Bootstrap 5.3 included),adminlte.js,bootstrap.bundle.min.jsand Bootstrap Icons — no CDN required. - Sidebar shows Drupal's Administration menu as a collapsible AdminLTE treeview
with per-section icons, shipped as a default block placement. The active section
is highlighted and auto-expanded. Clicking a parent item's label navigates to
its section page; clicking the chevron expands/collapses the submenu in place
(a real toggle button with
aria-expanded). "Main navigation" renders below it. - Navbar user dropdown (user picture/icon + name, a header, and icon-prefixed account links); anonymous users get an inline "Log in" link.
- Admin components bridged to Bootstrap/AdminLTE: operations dropbuttons
(floating, opaque menu), tabledrag handles, vertical tabs, pagers,
jQuery-UI modal dialogs, admin tabs (nav-tabs/pills) and status
messages (dismissible alerts), plus
.form-actions,.action-links, inline containers and the AJAX throbber. Full module descriptions on the Extend page. - Light / dark colour modes with a navbar toggle, OS-preference auto mode, and a flash-free inline theme initialiser (mirrors AdminLTE core #6043).
- Theme settings: default colour mode and dark sidebar.
- Default block placement in
config/install(and an optional Help block inconfig/optional) so the theme renders immediately on enable. - Bridge CSS mapping Drupal's admin form/button/table markup onto Bootstrap, and a displacement offset so the shell coexists with the core admin toolbar.
- Passes Drupal coding standards (PHPCS
Drupal+DrupalPractice).
- Deeper admin screens (Views UI drag-and-drop, Field UI, Media Library) may benefit from additional bridge styles.
- Gin-style toolbar coexistence is not specifically tuned (the core toolbar is).