Issue 735 - June, 11th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal Core News: The Project Update Bot Is Refreshed for Drupal 12 Readiness

AI

Dries Buytaert: Do AI Coding Agents Recommend Drupal?

Drupal AI Initiative: The Stable Triangle: Why AI Is the Ultimate Stress Test for Your Business

Jacob Rockowitz: Drupal (AI) Playground: AI Is Making Great Programmers Even Greater, and Not-So-Great Programmers, Well, Not-So-Great

Core

'Promoted to Front Page' Terminology Changed to 'Promoted'

Changes to How Translations Are Downloaded and Imported During the Installer

Dr - Drupal CLI Capable of Running Commands from Modules

ExtensionList ::getList() Now Has an Optional $skip_cache Argument

JavaScript Translation Files Are Now Stored in the Assets:// Path Location

Locale Translation Status Functions Deprecated in Favor of the LocaleSource Service

New cache.file_parsing Bin and File Parsing Cache Collector

New Permission Available to View Unpublished Block Content

user_pass_rehash(), user_cancel_url(), user_mail_tokens(), and user_pass_reset_url() Are Deprecated

Articles

Centarro: Recurring Payments: When to Own the Subscription and When to Hand It Off

Dries Buytaert: Speculation Rules Changed My Mind About Prefetching

Europe Turns to Open Source for Independence

Friction, Abstraction and Verification

Picozzi.com: Drupal 11: The Upgrade Experience I've Been Waiting For

The New Workflow Modeler: Revolutionary, Not Just Improved

Tutorials

#! Code: Drupal 11: Building a Link Directory: Part 2

ImageX: A Simple Guide to Creating Company Contact Details with a Map in Drupal

Specbee: How to Optimize Render Cache in Drupal for Better Performance

Releases

Ai 1.4.1

Canvas 1.5.1

Cas 3.1.0

Cleantalk 9.7.1

Commerce 3.3.6

Docker4drupal 6.2.6

Emulsify 7.0.0

Fences 3.0.8

Graphql 5.0.0

inline_entity_form 3.0.0

inline_entity_form 8.x-1.0

Scheduler 2.3.0

search_api 8.x-1.41

Tacjs 8.x-6.8

title_html 2.1.3

Trash 3.0.28

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #556 - a Chat with Moshe

TD Cafe #017 - Drupal Beginners with Mike and Rod