DKAN version 3.x, drupal.org updates

[dafeder]

Wanted to give the community a heads-up that we are actively working on a 3.x release of DKAN. This will not introduce any major new features or code paradigms, but will be a major refactor aimed at getting the modules more in line with Drupal standards in their naming and organization. A number of adopters have experienced challenges due to the lack of submodule namespacing and the fact that DKAN is not packaged on Drupal.org.

We are hoping in Q4 of 2025 to release DKAN 3.0 via Drupal.org and Drupal packagist (rather than the central PHP packagist repository), with the following (breaking) changes:

• All DKAN submodules re-named with the dkan_ namespace (datastore becomes dkan_datastore, etc.)
• JSON Form Widget module released separately on Drupal.org, and now a hard requirement for DKAN

Refactoring custom code or contrib modules should be straightforward, for the most part it would just be find/replace of Drupal\datastore with Drupal\dkan_datastore and so forth. Services will keep their same names, at least for now, as they have already been prefixed with dkan..