Issue 722 - March, 12th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal AI Initiative: Drupal AI Summit NYC: Building AI That Lasts

Drupal AI Initiative: Upcoming Webinar: A Real-World Example of Responsible AI: World Cancer Day

DrupalCon News & Updates: Agency, Business & Marketing Track at DrupalCon Rotterdam

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Core

All Functions in locale.fetch.inc Are Deprecated

Disabled Links Are Now Ignored in Active Trail

Layout Builder Storage Plugins Must Implement SupportAwareSectionStorageInterface

The Node/form Library Is Deprecated

The Trusted Data Concept in Config and Config Entities Is Deprecated

Articles

#! Code: DrupalCamp England 2026

Announcement – Display Builder 1.0.0-Beta3 Is Out! | UI Suite Initiative Website

Building a Design System in WordPress Gutenberg: A Drupal Developer's Perspective

Cut Bot Traffic. Cut Costs by 40%

AI scrapers can quietly overload your Drupal infrastructure. Promet Source filters unwanted traffic before it hits your origin server—improving performance and reducing hosting expenses by up to 40%.

Debug Academy: Accelerating Drupal Core Development

Dries Buytaert: Open Source Infrastructure Deserves a Business Model

Jacob Rockowitz: Clauding at Symfony Within Drupal

Markdown, llms.txt and AI Crawlers

Tutorials

CodeLift: Making Drupal Config UUIDs Deterministic: Storage Decorators, UUIDv5, and Edge Cases

DDEV v1.25.1 Docker Buildx Requirement | DDEV

Gábor Hojtsy: My Experiment in Bringing Drupal Module Upgrader Back from the Dead in Less Than 24 Hours

ImageX: Accessibility and SEO in Drupal: Working Better Together

Matt Glaman: The Nightmare of Permissions and OAuth Scopes in Drupal

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Tag1 Insights: When Good Links Go Bad: How AI Cut Link Verification in Drupal’s Metatag Module from Hours to Minutes

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Releases

6.2.2 Docker4drupal

Cms 2.0.2

config_pages 8.x-2.20

Crop 8.x-2.6

crop_image 2.0.6

Drupal 10.6.4

Drupal 10.6.5

Drupal 11.3.4

Drupal 11.3.5

openid_connect 8.x-1.5

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #543 - Commerce 3.x