Issue 731 - May, 14th 2026

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Headlines

Dries Buytaert: AI-Generated Rector Rules for Drupal

Drupal AI Initiative: Call for Papers: Enterprise AI Summit Europe 2026

From Our Sponsor

Core

Accessing the Autoload Global Is Deprecated

Block Content Attributes Are Moved to the Content Wrapper

Drupal Now Uses Symfony/runtime for Bootstrap Separation

New 'resolvable_uri' Property Is Added to Link Field

Run-tests.sh --Types Argument Requires PHPUnit Test Suites Names

TestRequirementsTrait Is Deprecated

user_cookie_save() and user_cookie_delete() Are Deprecated

Articles

Dominique De Cooman: From Athens to Rotterdam: Why Drupal AI Needs an "Athena" Release

Drupal AI Initiative: The Skills That Matter for Leaders, Builders and Doers in the Age of AI

Gear for Developers - FortheDev

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Jacob Rockowitz: Drupal (AI) Playground: AI Ate My Work, and I Need to Be Okay with That.

LakeDrops Drupal Consulting, Development and Hosting: Ten Months That Changed Everything: An ECA Journey

Stability & Innovation: Web Acceleration with Drupal Core and Drupal CMS - Session Recording

Très Bien Blog: Ten Years of Drupal Code History

Tutorials

#! Code: Drupal 11: Node Display Mode Preview Form

ImageX: Drupal’s Flag Module: Flexible Bookmarking, Following, Reporting, and More

Specbee: How to Automate SEO Metadata in Drupal at Scale with the Bulk Metatag AI Generator Module

Releases

Canvas 1.4.0

Domain 3.0.1

Drupal 10.6.8

Drupal 11.3.9

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #552 - MOSA

TD Cafe #016 - Understanding Drupal Caching with Matt and Nic

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