Issue 717 - February, 5th 2026

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Headlines

Dries Buytaert: Drupal CMS 2.0 Released

Drupal CMS 2.0 Is Here: Visual Building, AI, and Site Templates Transform Drupal

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Core

'View Linked Label' Operation Added to User Entity

AJAX Page State Is Now a Request Attribute

Batch Api Callbacks Now Support Callables Supported by the CallableResolver

New MappingCollection Constraint to Validate Sets of Required and Optional Fields

New Serialized Constraint to Validate if a Field Is a Serialized Value

Standard Profile and Recipes No Longer Use text_with_summary Widget

Underscore Prefixed Functions from editor.module Are Deprecated

Undocumented User::$Password Property Is Deprecated

Articles

AI Document Processing in Drupal: Case Study - Droptica

AI Scrapers Are Driving Up Drupal Hosting Costs by 40%+—Here's How to Stop It

Major hosting platforms are raising prices as AI bots and scrapers consume massive resources. Promet Source's turnkey Cloudflare implementation blocks unwanted traffic at the edge—cutting hosting costs by up to 40% while improving performance and security. Stop paying for traffic you don't want.

DDEV v1.25.0: Improved Windows Support, Faster Debugging, and Modern Defaults

Dries Buytaert: AI Creates Asymmetric Pressure on Open Source

Drupal AI Initiative: The Drupal AI Hackathon: Play to Impact 2026

Drupal Association Blog: Drupal Powers Global Action for World Cancer Day

DrupalCon News & Updates: Your First DrupalCon: Chicago 2026 Sessions You Can’t Miss

Factorial.io: 25 Years of Drupal: From an Open Source Project to the Backbone of Digital Ecosystems

Morpht: Introducing the Drupal AI Views Agent

Podman and Docker Rootless in DDEV

Self-Improving AI Skills

The Drop Times: Drupal Pivot in Ghent Marks Turning Point for CMS, AI, and Sovereignty

Tutorials

Automated Content Creation in Drupal: Field Widget Actions - Droptica

Extending Drupal Canvas with Canvas Full HTML - Specbee

Smartbees: How to Set Up and Use Workflows and Content Moderation Modules in Drupal?

Releases

Acl 2.0.2

Canvas 1.0.4

Cms 2.0.0

Ddev v1.25.0

Docker4drupal 6.2.1

drupal_cms_starter 2.0.0

Imagemagick 5.0.1

Onetimelogin 1.0.5

simplesamlphp_auth 4.1.0

Tour 2.0.17

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #538 - Agentic Development Workflows