Issue 714 - January, 15th 2026

Happy 25th birthday Drupal!

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Headlines

Drupal's 25th Birthday Celebration

Drupal turns 25 on 15 January 2026! That’s 25 years of open source, innovation, collaboration, and the incredible global community that keeps Drupal thriving. This is a celebration for everyone who’s ever contributed, shared, or built something with Drupal, and that means you!

The Drop Times: Celebrate Drupal’s 25th Anniversary: Host or Join a Local Event Starting January 8

News

Kanopi Acquires Chapter Three to Expand Drupal Services

From Our Sponsor

Articles

AI Is a Business Model Stress Test

ComputerMinds.co.uk: Drupal Turns 25: A Quarter-Century of Open-Source Innovation

ImageX: Smarter SEO with Drupal: Harnessing AI for Better Results

Measuring Drupal Core Code Complexity

Not All Traffic Is Good Traffic—And You’re Paying for All of It

AI crawlers, scrapers, and automated bots can generate massive Drupal traffic spikes with zero business value—yet still count against hosting entitlements. Promet Source delivers a turnkey Cloudflare implementation that filters bad traffic before it reaches Drupal, reducing overages and keeping performance predictable.

The Migrate Drupal Module Is Deprecated

When Backward Compatibility Became an Advantage

Tutorials

Have 5 Minutes to See How to Enhance Your Skills in Code Quality, Automated Testing and Sustainable Development Practices?

Watch a clip from DrupalEasy’s Professional Module Development course! Next session starts January 27th and fits nicely into the work week.

The Floating-Point Divide: A Drupal Migration That Wraps Values in Paragraphs

Smartbees: How to Build Landing Pages in Drupal Quickly? from Paragraphs to Drupal Canvas

Releases

advanced_search 2.2.2

Ai 1.1.8

Ai 1.2.5

alert_message 1.1.0

backup_migrate 5.1.3

Canvas 1.0.2

Canvas 1.0.3

Dashboard 2.2.0

Drupal 10.6.2

Drupal 11.3.2

entity_manager 1.0.6

field_permissions 8.x-1.5

Markdown 3.1.0

Messages 2.4.0

S3fs 8.x-3.10

Token 8.x-1.17

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #535 - Podcast Recording

Talking Drupal: TD Cafe #012 - Johanna Bates & Jess Snyder