Issue 715 - January, 22nd 2026

Last week was the 25th birthday of Drupal! This we highlight some reflections on this milestone.

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Headlines

Dries Buytaert: 25 Years of Drupal: What I've Learned

Drupal Association Blog: Drupal Turns 25 Today

Drupal Core News: Announcing Drupal 12.0.0 Platform Requirements

Drupal Core News: Introducing the Main Branch for Drupal Core

From Our Sponsor

Core

Deprecation of DrupalCoreThemeRegistry::getBaseHook()

The History Module Has Been Removed from the Standard Profile and Recipe

Views Table Alignment Style Options Now Relies on Core Alignment Classes

Articles

Cameron Eagans: 25 Years of Drupal

Drupal Site Templates – Launch Websites in Minutes - Droptica

mark.ie: AI Single Page Importer: Fast, Flexible Single-Page Imports for Drupal

> AI Single Page Importer is a Drupal contributed module designed to help bring content into a Drupal site from a single URL or source page in a streamlined way.

Planning for Another Great DDEV Year in 2026 | DDEV

Protect Your Drupal Site V.2026

Start the year off right by releasing your Drupal site from costly malicious traffic. Promet Source stops bad traffic at the edge before it impacts performance or drives up costs—so you can ship faster, stay secure, and keep your budget intact.

Software as Clay on the Wheel

The Third Audience - Dries Buytaert

> For two decades, we built sites for two audiences: humans and search engines. AI agents are now the third audience, and most websites aren't optimized for them yet.

Twenty Years of Lullabot

Undpaul.de: Drupal and AI: Real Success Stories from Real Projects

What to Expect from Trivia Night in Chicago - Drupal Events

Tutorials

#! Code: Drupal 11: Finding a Better Way to Display Code Examples

AGENTS.md Tool: How AI Speeds Up Drupal Development | Droptica

Aten Design Group: Simplified Drupal Views Styling with Custom Style Plugins

ImageX: Canonical Tags in Drupal: Preventing Duplicate Content Issues and Boosting SEO

Specbee: Understanding Entity Reference Revisions in Drupal

Undpaul.de: Converting PHP Class Annotations to PHP Attributes

Web Wash: Basic Tailwind CSS Theme Setup for Drupal Canvas

Releases

automatic_updates 4.1.0

Diff 8.x-1.10

Eca 2.1.18

Eca 3.0.10

Gin 4.1.3

Gin 5.0.12

Key 8.x-1.22

node_edit_action 1.1.1

role_delegation 8.x-1.5

Safedelete 1.0.79

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #536 - Composer Patches 2.0