Issue 727 - April, 16th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal Association Blog: DrupalCon Chicago 2026: Where Innovation Meets the Open Web

Drupal Blog: Drupal CMS Leadership Changes

Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Cross-Site Scripting - SA-CORE-2026-003

DrupalCon News & Updates: Measuring What Matters: Building More Sustainable DrupalConEur

DrupalCon News & Updates: Why You Should Speak at DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026

Security Advisories: Drupal Core - Critical - Cross-Site Scripting - SA-CORE-2026-001

Security Advisories: Drupal Core - Moderately Critical - Gadget Chain - SA-CORE-2026-002

From Our Sponsor

Core

Entity Bundle Classes Can Be Defined and Discovered Using the DrupalCoreEntityAttributeBundle Attribute

Functions in menu_ui.module Are Deprecated and Move to Hooks

image_path_flush(), image_style_options() and IMAGE_DERIVATIVE_TOKEN Have Been Deprecated

InstallerRouteBuilder Is No Longer Needed

Migration Plugins link_options, link_uri, Timezone, and user_langcode Are Moved to the Migrate Module

PHP Attributes Can Be Used for Route Definition and Discovery

RouteBuilder No Longer Needs the Module Handler and Controller Resolver Injected

Uninstalling Themes in the UI Now Have a Confirmation Step

X-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache Response Header Updated for 4xx and 5xx Responses

Articles

1xINTERNET Blog: When AI Meets Humanity: A Driesnote That Left a Lasting Mark

Annertech: Editorial Workflows in LocalGov Drupal: Secure, Scalable and Council-Ready

Gábor Hojtsy: Solving a Small Drupal Issue with Plenty Added Tests: Most Basic Claude Code Setup, Without Writing a Single Line of Code, Issue Commentary or Commit Message Myself

Jacob Rockowitz: Drupal (AI) Playground: Adding More Structures to My Playground

You Can’t Govern What You Can’t See: Visibility Challenges with State Government Websites

Tutorials

#! Code: Drupal 11: Creating a Tabbed Interface with HTMX

HOOK_DEV_ALTER(): Building a Page Layout: Canvas vs Display Builder (Part 1)

HOOK_DEV_ALTER(): Finally: Explicit #[TwigAllowed] Method Access (W/o the Hallucinations)

Specbee: Introducing Node Cleanup - Your Solution to Managing & Deleting Unpublished Nodes in Drupal 10/11

Releases

Ai 1.2.14

Ai 1.3.3

Cms 2.1.1

custom_elements 3.3.7

Drupal 10.5.9

Drupal 10.6.6

Drupal 10.6.7

Drupal 11.2.11

Drupal 11.3.6

Drupal 11.3.7

Examples 4.0.5

Lando v3.26.3

Memcache 8.x-2.8

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #548 - How to Build Your Own CRM