Issue 674 - March, 20th 2025

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Headlines

Security Advisories: Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CORE-2025-004

Dries Buytaert: How AI Could Reshape CMS Platforms

Drupal Association Blog: Kicking Off Your Drupal Adventure: Top DrupalCon Sessions for Those New to Drupal

From Our Sponsor

Core

AJAX Responses from Views May Now Be Cached

Default Content Can Now Be Assigned to a Specific Fallback User

jQuery Is No Longer Included in JavaScript Aggregates

New BlockPluginInterface::createPlaceholder() Method

Uninstalled Extensions Will Be Checked by Update Status by Default

Articles

Does Drupal Have a Future? an Open Letter to My Peers

eiriksm.dev: 9768 Times Yes to Auto-Updates

James Oakley: Using Radix as a Drupal Base Theme

The Drop Times: Building Community-Driven Drupal Solutions: JD Leonard on Member Platform and Open Source

Time to Break Up with Drupal 7—We’ll Help You Move on (Free Audit Available at OPTASY)

Sticking with an outdated site is like staying in a bad relationship—it’s only going to get worse. Let’s upgrade. Claim your FREE Drupal 7 migration audit and move forward with confidence.

Tutorials

Dries Buytaert: Installing Drupal CMS (Or Drupal Starshot) Using DDEV

Drupal Faceted Search with Typesense and InstantSearch | Colorfield

Experience the Power of Drupal AI

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Specbee: Writing Smarter Drupal Code Starts with package.json

Releases

Cms 1.0.3

domain_role_access 2.1.0

Drupal 10.3.14

Drupal 10.4.5

Drupal 11.0.13

Drupal 11.1.5

drupal_cms_starter 1.1.0

Eca 2.0.15

Eca 2.1.6

Graphql 8.x-4.11

Lando v3.24.2

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #493 - Drupal Developer Survey