Issue 628 - April, 11th 2024

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~ Bob Kepford - Editor

Headlines

Support Ryan's Brain Cancer Battle

Ryan Weaver is a core team member on the Symfony project, founder of SymfonyCasts, and trained many of us Drupalers when Drupal adopted the Symfony framework. If you can, support him and his family in this fight.

Upgrade Your Drupalcon: Register for DrupalCon's Higher Education Summit

From Our Sponsor

Core

Development Settings Toggles Moved from State to Raw Key/value Storage

EntityTypeRepository Constructor Adds a $entity_type_bundle_info Argument

Super User Access Policy Can Be Turned Off

The Book Module Is Deprecated

The Site Configure Form No Longer Asks the User for the Default Country of the Site.

user_validate_name() Is Deprecated and Replaced with a UserNameValidator Service

Articles

Dries Buytaert: Sydney Opera House Using Drupal

The Drop Times: Crafting the Future of Web Development: A Conversation with Adrian Ababei

The Drop Times: Inspiring Inclusion: Celebrating the Women in Drupal | #3

Integrating Drupal, Ecommerce and ERP Capabilities for B2B Manufacturers

Introducing Gesso — a headless commerce accelerator that reduces time-to-market for technology and architecture upgrades, unlocking ecommerce, ERP and CMS integrations for B2B Manufacturing. Featuring native integrations with Drupal, Storyblok, BigCommerce, Drupal Commerce, Shopify and Acumatica.

Théodore 'nod_' Biadala: Drupal Needs Infrastructure Innovation

Tutorials

ComputerMinds.co.uk: Format Drush Output for Easy Wins!

Drupixels: Slow Drupal Permissions Page? Use Better Permissions Page Module!

How to Configure the SMTP Module in Drupal 10 with Gmail, Since Google Removed Less Secure Apps

Node.js Development with DDEV

Specbee: How to Create Custom Tokens in Drupal

Don't Miss LagoonCon 2024 in Portland

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Releases

Drupal 10.2.5

automatic_updates 3.0.4

custom_field 2.0.2

entity_embed 8.x-1.6

jsonapi_pathauto_breadcrumbs 1.0.1

search_api 8.x-1.34

Spammaster 8.x-2.43

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #445 - Drupal Bounty Program

Talking Drupal: Skills Upgrade #5

5 Drupal Podcasts You Must Follow in 2024 - Drupixels