Issue 716 - January, 29th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal AI Initiative: The Future of AI-Powered Web Creation Is People-First, Not-Prompt First

Drupal Association Blog: Join Drupal for a Week of Innovation at EU Open Source Week 2026

Drupal.org Blog: GitLab Issue Migration: The New Workflow for Migrated Projects

From Our Sponsor

Core

ImageToolkit and ImageToolkitOperation Plugins Are Autowirable

New Method getSummary() Added to DrupalCoreFieldFieldTypeCategoryInterface

The comment_preview() Function Is Deprecated and the Logic Has Moved to CommentForm

The History Module Is Deprecated

Articles

AI Scrapers Are Driving Up Drupal Hosting Costs by 40%+—Here's How to Stop It

Major hosting platforms are raising prices as AI bots and scrapers consume massive resources. Promet Source's turnkey Cloudflare implementation blocks unwanted traffic at the edge—cutting hosting costs by up to 40% while improving performance and security. Stop paying for traffic you don't want.

Announcement - Display Builder Beta 1 Has Been Released | UI Suite Initiative Website

Automatically Exporting My Drupal Content to GitHub

Centarro: How API Extensibility Future-Proofs B2B Commerce

CKEditor: What’s New in CKEditor Drupal Modules: Footnotes, Restricted Editing and More

DDEV January 2026: Year in Review, Looking Ahead, and Community Momentum | DDEV

Dries Buytaert: Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty

How an Unclosed Broke Drupal’s JavaScript

Pivale: Introducing Commerce Referral

Pivale: Who Really Owns Your Digital Platforms?

Tag1 Insights: Speed Up Your Testing with Deuteros

Tutorials

Converting Hooks to OO Methods Made Easy | Joachim's Blog

Four Kitchens: Don’t Let SimpleSAMLphp Block Your Drupal Upgrade

ImageX: A Step-by-Step Guide to the OpenAI Module Integration on Your Drupal Website

ImageX: Mastering Robots.txt: An Essential SEO Tool for Your Drupal Site

Web Wash: Getting Started with DDEV for Drupal Development

Releases

Ai 1.1.9

Ai 1.2.6

Kint 2.3.3

module_builder 4.2.1

security_review 3.1.3

user_bulk_delete 1.0.2

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #537 - Orchestration

Talking Drupal: TD Cafe #013 - Hilmar & Martin - Drupal in a Day