Issue 670 - February, 20th 2025

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Headlines

Drupal Core - Critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CORE-2025-001

Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Access Bypass - SA-CORE-2025-002

Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Gadget Chain - SA-CORE-2025-003

Drupal Association Blog: Progress in Innovating and Sustaining Drupal, but More Needs to Be Done

Drupal Association Blog: A First Time Attendees Guide to DrupalCon Atlanta 2025

From Our Sponsor

Core

Added Methods to Add Dependencies to a Migration

New hook_entity_duplicate_alter() and hook_ENTITY_TYPE_duplicate_alter() Hooks

Passing NULL or an Empty String to Number::alphadecimalToInt() Is Deprecated

Plugins Converted from Annotations to Attributes in 11.2.0

RSS Descriptions No Longer Wrapped in CDATA Tags

Articles

57 Expert-Picked Modules Powering the All-New Drupal CMS

Evolving Web: AI-Assisted Translation Workflows in Drupal

Your Site Deserves Better—Get a Free Drupal 7 Migration Audit from OPTASY

Running an outdated website isn’t just risky—it could cost you business. Without security updates or ongoing support, your site is vulnerable. Don’t take chances! Get a FREE Drupal 7 upgrade audit and find out what it takes to upgrade safely and efficiently.

Gizra.com: Test Refactoring with AI - Efficient and Fun

ImageX: CRON-Ological Perfection: How Drupal’s Cron Runs Scheduled Tasks on Your Website Automatically

joshics.in: Drupal CMS 1.0: Simplifying Content Management for Non-Technical Users

LN Webworks: The Future of Content Editors in Drupal with AI in 2025

Mandclu: Artisan Theme: On the Workbench

Wim Leers: XB Week 25: The "XB Stark" Theme

Tutorials

Golems GABB: Drupal and WebSocket for Real-Time Data Rendering

AI-Assisted Translation Workflows for Drupal

Join Evolving Web for a webinar on February 28th at noon ET to learn how to speed up the process of translating your content within Drupal. Automating translation makes it easy to maintain quality translations, while keeping human translators or editors in the loop. Register today.

joshics.in: Building Multilingual Sites in Drupal: Best Practices and Pitfalls

joshics.in: Top Drupal Security Tips to Protect Your Website

Specbee: Take Full Control of Your Styles with CSS Specificity

The Drop Times: Drupal Trash Module: The Ultimate Solution for Managing Deleted Content

Releases

admin_toolbar 3.5.2

config_split 2.0.2

Datafield 2.0.10

Honeypot 2.2.2

Message 8.x-1.7

Social 12.3.11

Social 12.4.10

Spammaster 8.x-2.58

Trash 3.0.12

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #489 - IXP Community Initiative