Issue 739 - July, 9th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal Blog: Drupal 11.4.0 Is Now Available

Drupal Core News: Use Rector on Your Drupal Site Easier Than Ever with New Composer-Based Sets

Drupal Starshot Blog: Drupal CMS Product Strategy: Version 2.0

DrupalCon News & Updates: Digital Sovereignty Starts with Technical Choices

From Our Sponsor

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Drupal Association Blog: Board Election 2026 Candidate: James Abrahams

Drupal Association Blog: Board Election 2026 Candidate: Janna Malikova

Drupal Association Blog: Board Election 2026 Candidate: Matthew Saunders

Drupal Association Blog: Board Election 2026 Candidate: Scott Falconer

Core

Hook Discovery Now Respects file_scan_ignore_directories Setting

Install Profiles Can Opt Into Being Automatically Uninstalled

It Is Possible That Entity Field Info Alter Hooks Are Invoked with Incomplete Set of Fields

PHP Attributes Can Be Used for Form Route Definition and Discovery

The Telephone Module Is Removed

Truncate Implements QueryExecutionVoidInterface

Articles

Acquia.com - Drupal Blog: Pick Your Starting Point: A Complete Guide to the Drupal Site Templates Marketplace

Canvas Internals - JSON Data Types in Different Databases: It Works on My Machine! | Penyaskito Blog

DDEV v1.25.3: Faster Start and Stop, Built-in Docker Compose, Stable Podman, MariaDB 12.3 LTS | DDEV

Drupal AI Initiative: The UN Spent a Week Describing Drupal

The Drop Times: Drupal 11.4.0 Delay Shows Dependency Patch Pressure on Core Releases

The Drop Times: Drupal 11.4.0, AI Workflows, and Orchestration

[Webinar] Secure at Speed with Fastly: Edge Delivery Without Compromise

Spoiler alert: speed vs. security is a fake trade-off. Drupal teams, join amazee.io and Fastly on July 22/23 for a live webinar, "Secure at Speed." Learn how to automate edge WAF, block malicious bots, and protect high-traffic Drupal architectures without slowing down your release cycles. Sign up today! Can't make it live? Register anyway to grab the recording later!

Tutorials

ImageX: Managing Colour in Drupal: Practical Tools for Modern Websites

Mandclu: Alias Your Local DDEV Commands

Mario Hernandez: Two Drupal Core Issues in Responsive Images You May Be Experiencing and Not Know It

No Data, No Problem: Computed Fields Made Simple | Joachim's Blog

PreviousNext: Our Contributions to Drupal 11.4 - and the 11.x Journey So Far

Specbee: How to Add an AI Assistant to CKEditor in Drupal (And Keep It Under Control)

Undpaul.de: Drupal Tip: How to Change Field Length with Existing Data

Releases

Canvas 1.4.2

Canvas 1.5.2

Canvas 1.6.1

Canvas 1.7.1

Colorbox 2.1.5

Colorbox 2.2.1

Ddev v1.25.3

Drupal 11.4.0

Drupal 11.4.1

Eca 2.1.19

file_entity 8.x-2.5

Iframe 3.0.2

Lando v3.26.7

Quicktabs 4.3.0

Trash 3.0.29