Issue 710 - December, 4th 2025

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Headlines

Dries Buytaert: Thank You, Drupal Security Team

"As Drupal's project lead, I'm barely involved in our security work. And you know what? That is a sign that things are working really well."

Drupal Advent Calendar 2025 - Call Out to Initiative Leads

Drupal Association Blog: DrupalCon Vienna 2025: A Celebration of Open Source and Community Impact

Drupal Association Blog: See Your Design in Print - Enter the DrupalCon Chicago T-Shirt Contest

Drupal Core News: Seeking Subsystem and Topic Maintainers for Open Positions

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Core

Block Content Entity Reference Fields Now Use the BlockContentSelection Plugin by Default

CSS Reset Added to Navigation Module's Toolbar and Top Bar

Doctrine/annotations Has Been Forked Into Core

Form API Callbacks Now Support Callables Supported by the CallableResolver

MemoryBackend::garbageCollection() Now Removes Invalid Items from Memory

Articles

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AI Workflows Will Reshape Development Organizations

Dries Buytaert: Infinite Scroll with Htmx

Drupal Blog: Drupal Goes to the U.N.

DrupalCon Nara Keynote Q&A

LostCarPark Drupal Blog: Advent Calendar Day 1 - Neurodiversity: An Underrated Superpower in Business

Specbee: Keywords vs. Search Intent: Still Stuffing Keywords or Optimizing for Relevance?

Tutorials

ImageX: Keep Your Drupal Site Secure: Managing All Keys Safely and Easily with the Key Module

Free Webinar: Mercury Editor 3.0: Aten’s Drag-and-Drop Drupal Publishing Module

Join Aten Design Group’s free webinar on Wednesday, December 10th at 2pm EDT for a demo and version update of Mercury Editor, our drag-and-drop Drupal publishing module.

Preventing a `drush Updb` from Clearing Your Caches

Specbee: How to Handle Soft Deletions with the Drupal Trash Module

ImageX: Managing Content-Rich Drupal Sites: Great Tools You Can Use

Web Wash: Build Content Workflows in Drupal

Releases

Htmx 1.5.1

Quickedit 2.0.0

Workflow 2.2.1

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #530 - Join the Community Working Group