Issue 742 - July, 30th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal Association Blog: How Drupal Has Protected Millions of Sites

Security Public Service Announcements: Security Advisory Coverage Removed - QA Accounts - PSA-2026-07-22

From Our Sponsor

AI

Drupal AI Initiative: Inside AI Is Building What Our Partners Asked For

Drupal AI Initiative: Outside AI - the State of Agent Experience in Drupal.

Drupal Association Blog: Introducing the Drupal AI Security Initiative: The First Six Weeks

Salsa Digital: Drupal AI Context — Beta 3 Released

Tag1 Insights: Ten Minutes, Not an Hour: What Efficient AI-Assisted Development Actually Looks Like

Webpro Company Blog: AI Agents Do Not Only Read Web Pages: How to Make a Drupal Site Understandable and Safe for Machines

Core

BatchStorageInterface::getId() Has Been Added

DrupalCoreConfigFileStorageFactory Is Deprecated

Kernel Test Classes Can Define Their Own Routes Using the Route Attribute

module.inc, module_set_weight and module_config_sort Are Deprecated

pdoToFetchAs, clientFetchColumn, clientFetchObject, clientQueryString, $fetchModeLiterals from PdoTrait Are Deprecated

setQuery() and getQuery() Added to ConditionAggregateInterface

StubPDO Is Deprecated

Support for Enums and PHP Constants Constants in YAML Files

The Base Class Implementation of Insert::execute() Is Deprecated

The Default Homepage in the Standard Profile Is Now /user

The Frontpage (Promoted Content) View Is Disabled by Default

User Search Plugin user_search Has Been Moved to Sub-Module Search User in Search

Articles

A Love Letter to the DDEV Community

Centarro: Minimizing Downtime During eCommerce Migrations

Dries Buytaert: From Personal AI Experiments to Shared Tools

Dries Buytaert: Helping Agents Discover My Site Search with Agentic Resource Discovery

Dries Buytaert: Helping Agents Discover My Site Search with an API Catalog

Drupal Association Blog: Why We Contribute: The Philosophy Behind 1xINTERNET's Top-Tier Drupal Status

Drupal Ships the Web's Best Security Defaults — And One Big Gap | Replatform Radar

ImageX: Building a Multi‑Layered Defense with Drupal: Top Security Tools and Practices

Talish Khan: Layout Builder Is Over-Applied: A Decision Framework for When It Actually Fits

The Drop Times: Tiffany Farriss Proposes Cost Accounting and Usage-Based Enterprise Funding

Tutorials

Specbee: Understanding Drupal's Service Container and Dependency Injection

The Floating-Point Divide: Inserting Boilerplate Text Into CKEditor in Drupal

Releases

Ai 1.3.10

Ai 1.4.5

Canvas 1.9.0

Ctools 4.1.1

custom_field 4.0.10

Drupal 10.6.14

Drupal 11.3.16

drupal_helpers 2.1.0

file_entity 8.x-2.7

mail_redirect 4.2.6

Tca 3.1.2

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #562 - Acquia Fair Trade Initiative