Issue 696 - August, 21st 2025

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Headlines

Drupal AI Initiative: Drupal AI 1.2.0-Alpha2 Is Out and Comes with Stability Fixes and New Features

Drupal Association Blog: Take Part in the 2025 Drupal Business Survey

From Our Sponsor

Articles

Acquia Appoints Chris Tranquill as CEO

Centarro: Exploring AI to Accelerate Drupal Commerce Development

Drupal AI Initiative: Exclusive First Look: 200 Business Leaders on AI Priorities - Global Survey Analysis and Roadmap Reveal

Drupal AI Initiative: From Strategy to Delivery: Key Outcomes of the Drupal AI Initiative Off-Site

Personalization Pitfalls: Why Your “Smart” Content Feels Dumb

Picozzi.com: Recap: My Return to Drupal GovCon 2025!

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The Drop Times: Colan Schwartz on Open Source and the Realities of Scaling with Drupal

The Drop Times: Confronting Change Through Openness

Tutorials

AI Bot Abuse: Our Evolving Strategy for Taming Performance Nightmares on Drupal Faceted Search Pages | Capellic

Component-Based Design in Drupal: A Comprehensive Guide | Vardot Blog | US - English

ImageX: Drupal Content Categorization, #2: Scale Your Vocabularies with Ease Using Taxonomy Manager

Jofitz: Drush Generate Plugin:manager Walk-Through

Private Drupal AI Provider: From Demo to Launch - Webinar + Q&A

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Releases

Docker4drupal 6.1.8

Eca 2.1.13

Eca 3.0.2

layout_builder_perms 2.2.1

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #516 - Drupal CMS & Recipes

Talking Drupal: TD Cafe #008 - Martin Anderson-Clutz & Jürgen Haas

Events

6th Longhorn PHP Conference Oct 23-35 in Austin, TX

Longhorn PHP is a community-run, regionally focused conference brought to you by members of the PHP (and Drupal!) communities in Texas. Level up at the optional tutorial day on Thursday, October 23, with main conference days on Friday and Saturday, October 24-25. Speaker lineup was just announced, but you still have a brief opportunity to grab tickets at the Blind Bird discount price through August 24!