Issue 709 - November, 20th 2025

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Headlines

Community Working Group Posts: Who Will You Nominate? the 2026 Aaron Winborn Award Opens Today

Security Advisories: Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Defacement - SA-CORE-2025-007

Security Advisories: Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Denial of Service - SA-CORE-2025-005

Security Advisories: Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Gadget Chain - SA-CORE-2025-006

Security Advisories: Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Information Disclosure - SA-CORE-2025-008

From Our Sponsor

Core

"Created" Fields Are Excluded from Default Content by Default

ArchiverManager and Other Archive Management Code Is Deprecated

Classes Used in Entity Form Handlers Must Implement DrupalCoreEntityEntityFormInterface

Do Not Call DrupalCoreEntityEntityTypeBundleInfo::getBundleInfo() with a NULL Value

DrupalmigratePluginmigrateprocessStaticMap::transform() Cannot Map NULL Values Unless There Is a Default Value or Bypass Is Set

Field Layout Module Is Deprecated

Loading Revisions Now Uses the Static and Persistent Cache Like

Migrate Drupal UI Is Deprecated

New Sequentially Constraint Added to Core

New TwigAllowed Method Attribute

Articles

1xINTERNET Blog: Key Takeaways from DrupalCamp Scotland 2025

A Drupal Couple: Why Web Development Simplicity Beats AI-Generated Complexity

Centarro: How to Plan Your Enterprise eCommerce Project

DDEV Blog: Fritz!Box Routers and DDEV

Drupal AI Initiative: Drupal AI Summit, Paris | Creating AI Systems That Belong to Everyone

Drupal Association Blog: An Invitation to Support DrupalCamp Burkina Faso

Drupal Association Blog: DrupalCon Lands in Japan: Historic Momentum as Drupal Eyes Its Next Chapter

ImageX: One Module, Many Layers of Defense: How to Protect Your Drupal Site with Security Kit

The Drop Times: Heading to DrupalCon Asia 2025? Don't Miss the Magic of Nara

The Product We Should Not Have Killed

Webinar + Q&A: Private AI Assistant

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What to Look for When Evaluating a Drupal Theme

Tutorials

Specbee: 8 Ways to Fully Optimize Images in Drupal (And Boost Your Core Web Vitals!)

Releases

Ai 1.2.3

Crop 8.x-2.5

custom_field 4.0.1

Drupal 10.4.9

Drupal 10.5.6

Drupal 11.1.9

Drupal 11.2.8

Lando v3.26.0

mail_redirect 4.2.5

Mcp 1.2.2

Profile 8.x-1.13

Sitemap 8.x-2.5

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #529 - MCP, Automators, and Agents

Talking Drupal: TD Cafe #011 - Adam Boros & Martin Anderson-Clutz