Issue 718 - February, 12th 2026

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Headlines

Dries Buytaert: Drupal's AI Roadmap for 2026

Drupal.org Blog: The Old Version of the Drupal.org Automatic Updates API Will Be Discontinued on May 4th, 2026

DrupalCon News & Updates: What’s Going on in Chicago?

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Core

Manual User Creation Now Emails Users by Default

page_top and page_bottom Can Now Be Added Using Attachments on a Page's Main Content

Site Information Form Now Stores Unresolved Path Aliases for Front, 403, and 404 Pages

The Field Layout Module Is Removed

The History Module Is Removed

W3C Compliant Testing

Drupal core now tests using selenium/standalone-chrome:latest via a W3C compliant webdriver.

Articles

AI Automators: Build Multi-Step Workflows in Drupal | Droptica

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.

Centarro: Any Drupal Commerce Site Can Have a B2B Portal

ComputerMinds.co.uk: Drupal Pivot EU

ComputerMinds.co.uk: Upgrading Legacy Solr Servers

Content Management Trends: What Changed in 2025 and What Comes Next

Dries Buytaert: The Software Sovereignty Scale

Dripyard Premium Drupal Themes: Dripyard Release 1.1.0 for All Themes 🚀

Drupal AI Initiative: From Strategy to Execution: How the Drupal AI Initiative Is Scaling Delivery for 2026

Drupal Blog: Inside Drupal CMS 2.0: Q&A with Product Owner Pam Barone

Jacob Rockowitz: Should Drupal Core Include an AGENTS.md File?

Picozzi.com: Drupal Configuration Management & Config Split: Still a Winning Combination

Tag1 Insights: Contributing to Drupal's Future at Drupal Pivot

Tag1 Insights: Using AI to Move a 10-Year-Old Drupal Core Issue Forward

Très Bien Blog: The Algorithmic Bias Against Drupal Community Values

UI Suite Monthly #33 - Ushering in the Era of AI-Powered Design Systems | UI Suite Initiative Website

Undpaul.de: Maintainable Code Is a Question of Responsibility, Not of AI

Tutorials

Drupalize.Me: Using Composer Path Repositories to Handle Module Dependencies During Development

Gbyte Blog: Mail Composer: Sending Multilingual HTML Emails with Drupal

Multisite, Domain Access, or Headless in Drupal | Droptica

Specbee: Semantic Search vs Keyword Search: What’s the Difference?

Releases

Ai 1.2.8

Canvas 1.1.0

Captcha 2.0.10

Drupal 10.6.3

Drupal 11.3.3

login_disable 2.1.3

Quickedit 1.0.5

Quickedit 2.0.1

Tagify 1.2.48

Trash 3.0.25

uI_icons 1.0.1

uI_icons 1.1.1

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #539 - EvolveDigital

Events

Drupal AI Initiative: Get Hands-on with AI in Drupal: "Responsible Drupal AI Basics" Workshop Coming to Florida and New Jersey

DrupalCon Chicago 2026 Health and Safety

Have questions or concerns about DrupalCon Chicago? Feel free to drop by the Community Working Group's public office hours this Friday, February 13 at 10am ET / 1200 UTC.