Issue 743 - August, 6th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal Association Blog: Drupal Association 2025 Audit and Financial Overview

From Our Sponsor

AI

Cheppers: Introducing ExperienceKit: AI-Generated Drupal Pages, Built on a Governed Design System

Dries Buytaert: Responsibility Follows Control

Drupal AI Initiative: Empowering Creators and Governing Agents: The Next Phase of the Drupal AI Initiative

Drupal AI Initiative: Move Fast, Stay on-Brand: How Drupal AI Delivers Both

Jacob Rockowitz: Vibing Drupal: Choosing a Model for Drupal Development

Tag1 Insights: Teaching AI to Speed Up Accessibility Testing

Core

All Transactions in Core Are Converted to Use Explicit ::commitOrRelease(), Implicit Commit-on-Destruct Is Deprecated

Archive, Glossary and Recent Content Block Views Were Removed

Database Schema Definitions Added to Replace Array-Based Structure

Drupal's .htaccess Now Blocks HTTP Access to Package-lock.json

Drupal/core-Recommended Allows Minor Updates for Guzzle and Twig

Library Definitions Support Specifying Aggregate Targets

MenuSettingsConstraint Is Deprecated

Route Attributes Support a Top Level "title" Property

Upsert Can Specify Custom Expressions for the Update Case

Articles

Electric Citizen: What’s the Deal with Schema

Freelock Blog: Zero to New Drupal Site in 133 Seconds

Mike Herchel's Blog: A First Look at the DrupalCon Orlando Venue

Tutorials

#! Code: Drupal 11: Migrating from Jadu Into LocalGov Drupal: Part 1

BloomIdea: When Two Terms Called Food Are Not the Same Term

Metadrop: How to Audit Internal Linking and Crawl Traps in Drupal with Entity Mesh

Metadrop: How to Automate WordPress-to-Drupal Content Migration with WordPress Migrate SQL

Morpht: Building a Semantic Search Chatbot with Drupal AI

Stuart Clark (Deciphered): Custom Formatters 4.1.0

Releases

Charts 5.2.3

Docker4drupal 6.2.9

edit_in_place_field 2.1.1

Emulsify 7.2.0

entity_browser 8.x-2.16

Kint 2.3.4

Maxlength 3.2.0

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #563 - Drupito: More Than a Marketplace

Talking Drupal: TD Cafe #020 - AI & Development Teams