Issue 632 - May, 9th 2024

Its DrupalCon Portland week so there will be news that I probably don't get into this week's issue but rest assured it will be covered next week.

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~ Bob Kepford - Editor

Headlines

Drupal Lead Dries Buytaert Announces the Guiding Star for a New Version of the Drupal CMS 23 Years After Its Creation | Drupal.org

Drupal Starshot will be a separate project on Drupal.org focused on the best out of the box experience. Drupal core will remain side by side as a separate download.

Driesnote: DrupalCon Portland 2024 (Video)

Drupal Core News: Announcing the Inaugural Project Update Working Group Members

DrupalCon Atlanta Announced for 24-27 March 2025

From Our Sponsor

Core

Drupal 11 Database Requirements

Drupal Custom PHPStan Rules

JSON:API Test Failures Now Print Document Errors When Data Is Missing

More Helpful Links Added to Block Layout Page

The Book Module Is Removed

Articles

Acquia Developer Portal Blog: DrupalCon Portland Day 1 Recap

De-Jargoning Drupal – Working with the Community to Open Up Drupal’s Terminology

Drupal Core News: The New Navigation Module and Layout Builder

Enhance UX with Effective Multilingual CMS Practices

Simplify the challenge of building a multilingual CMS that delights users worldwide. Discover strategies to maintain consistency, reduce user friction, and boost engagement across diverse linguistic landscapes.

Four Kitchens: Aligning Diverging Websites with an Upstream Platform Through Drupal

ImageX: Top 10 Most Installed Drupal Modules: How These Giants Can Transform Your Website

LostCarPark Drupal Blog: Drupal Advent Calendar 2024 - Call for Ideas

Mike Herchel's Blog: Polishing Drupal’s Admin UI

Tag1 Consulting: 4 Important Improvements to Drupal Core Performance

Tag1 Consulting: Migrating Your Data from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10: Source Site Audit - an in Depth Analysis

The Drop Times: Best of Both Worlds: Thor Andre Gretland on Gutenberg and Drupal's Synergy

The Drop Times: Detailed Overview of the 2024 Drupal Developer Survey Results

The Drop Times: Introducing Drupal Starshot and Charting a New Course for the Future

Understanding What Drupal Editors and Authors Need

Tutorials

Frontend Performance Optimization for Drupal Websites: Part 2

Horizontal Digital Blog: Try This One Weird Trick with the Migrate API

How to Create a Content Strategy in 30 Minutes

Integrating Drupal, Ecommerce and ERP Capabilities for B2B Manufacturers

Introducing Gesso — a headless commerce accelerator that reduces time-to-market for technology and architecture upgrades, unlocking ecommerce, ERP and CMS integrations for B2B Manufacturing. Featuring native integrations with Drupal, Storyblok, BigCommerce, Drupal Commerce, Shopify and Acumatica.

Joachim's Blog: Refactoring with Rector

Mario Hernandez: Integrating Drupal with Storybook Components

Specbee: Using Drupal 10’s Asset Library to Streamline Asset Handling

Releases

Datafield 2.0.3

Drupal 10.2.6

Drupal 11.0.0-Alpha1

jQuery 4.0.0

jsonapi_menu_items 1.2.5

jsonapi_resources 8.x-1.0

smart_date 4.1.2

Statistics 1.0.0

Podcasts

Beyond Blocks Episode 16 - Health, Fitness and Weight Loss for Software Developers (And Everyone Else) with Simon Graham

Skills Upgrade #9

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #449 - Agile Methodologies