Issue 690 - July, 10th 2025

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Headlines

DrupalCon News & Updates: DrupalCon North America 2026: Evolving for the Community

Drupal AI Initiative: AI Initiative Marketing, June Update

Drupal AI Initiative: Welcome to the Drupal AI Initiative: What We Learned from Our June 26 Webinar

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Core

Passing NULL as the $Elements Value in RendererInterface::render() Is Deprecated

Recipe Input Now Accepts Environment Variables

ViewsConfigUpdater Is Now a Service

Articles

Colan Schwartz: From DevOps Headaches to Seamless Onboarding: How Dropping Chocolatey Made DDEV the Perfect Fit for a Client's Drupal Team

Colan Schwartz: Want to Run Drupal in Kubernetes? Try Our New Terraform Module

DrupalCon News & Updates: DrupalCon Vienna 2025: A Journey Through Drupal’s Past, Present, and Future

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PreviousNext: Experience Builder Has Pushed the Boundaries of What Drupal Can Do. Here's How We Can Push It Further.

Specbee: What Is a DXP, and Does Your Business Really Need One?

The Drop Times: What Noah’s Page Builder Just Quietly Solved in Drupal—And Why It Matters

Using FrankenPHP with DDEV | DDEV

Tutorials

Drupal Life Hack's: Object-Oriented Form API in Drupal 11

joshics.in: Drupal 11 Dev Environments: DDEV, LAMP, and Beyond

joshics.in: Upgrade from Drupal 10 to Drupal 11: A Step-by-Step Guide

Nuvole: Implementing Fast End-to-End Tests on Drupal with Docker and JSON-RPC

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The Drop Times: Advanced Features of the Automated Testing Kit - Part 3

Releases

Commerce 3.1.0

config_pages_viewer 1.0.4

Devel 5.4.0

Docker4drupal 6.1.6

Eca 2.1.10

Linkit 7.0.6

Lms 1.0.8

Openintranet 1.2.0

Tfa 8.x-1.11

Timepicker 8.x-1.12

Workflow 2.1.4

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #510 - Drupal Hooks: Drop 'Em Like They're Hot