Issue 729 - April, 30th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal AI Initiative: Webinar: How Southwark Council Is Using AI to Transform PDF Publishing in Drupal

Drupal.org Blog: GitLab Issue Migration: A Contributor's Perspective

From Our Sponsor

Core

Brotli Compression Support Added for CSS and JavaScript Aggregates

CKEditor 5 Uses UMD Builds Instead of DLL Builds

HTML5 Validation Will Be Disabled in Drupal 12

Library Definitions Now Support a Fonts Key for Preloading

New LocaleFile and LocaleFileManager

SDC Components Can Now Be Used as Form Elements

Upsert Queries Can Now Use Unique / Primary Key Constraints Composed of Multiple Fields

UUIDs Are Now Validated

Articles

1xINTERNET Blog: Search Behaviour Is Changing, Your Marketing Strategy Should Too

AI Rewards Strict APIs

Centarro: How to Know if Your eCommerce Developer Is Failing You

Drupal AI Initiative: From Leuven to Athens: Celebrating One Year Since the Drupal AI Initiative Took Shape

Governance Without Authority: How to Align Agencies Across a Statewide Digital Platform

ImageX: Keeping Your Content Yours: Intellectual Property Protection in Drupal

Specbee: Zero-Effort Schema Markup: AI Schema Markup Generator for Drupal

What ‘Better Search’ Actually Means (And How to Get There)

Tutorials

#! Code: Drupal 11: Cascading Select Forms with HTMX

Releases

Audit 1.0.6

Ddev v1.25.2

Drupal 11.3.8

Lando v3.26.4

Masquerade 8.x-2.2

Obfuscate 2.0.2

Redirect 8.x-1.13

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #550 - the Future of Site Builders