Issue 721 - March, 5th 2026

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Headlines

DrupalCon News & Updates: The “Hallway Track” Is Where It’s Going on at DrupalCon!

Dries Buytaert: Drupal 25th Anniversary Gala at DrupalCon Chicago

Mike Herchel's Blog: Buy Your Tickets Now to the DrupalCon Gala!

From Our Sponsor

Core

A New Alpha Experimental "Admin" Theme Just Landed in Drupal 12 Dev

hasRole() Has Moved from UserInterface to AccountInterface

JSON:API No Longer Validates Every Response Against Schema by Default

JSON:API Normalisation Not Skips Cacheing if a ResourceObject Has Max-Age 0

Link Field Widget Supports Route:{$route_name}

Navigation Module Just Replaced Toolbar as the Default Navigation Experience

The Contact Module Is Removed

The Migrate Drupal Module Is Removed

[12.x] [Meta] Deprecate Dependencies, Libraries, Modules, and Themes That Will Be Removed from Drupal 12 Core [#3466088] | Drupal.org

Articles

Centarro: Commerce Core 3.3.0 Significantly Improves Order Management

Cut Bot Traffic. Cut Costs by 40%

AI scrapers can quietly overload your Drupal infrastructure. Promet Source filters unwanted traffic before it hits your origin server—improving performance and reducing hosting expenses by up to 40%.

ImageX: Faster Than Ever: Drupal’s Latest Performance Boost

Matt Glaman: Drupalorg-Cli 0.8.0: GitLab Issue Fork and Merge Request Commands

Release More Code: The Technical Stuff | Joachim's Blog

Tag1 Insights: What I Learned Using AI for Drupal Development

Tutorials

Specbee: Lazy Loading in Drupal - a Simple Trick That Makes Your Site Feel Instantly Faster

Releases

Canvas 1.1.1

Canvas 1.2.0

Captcha 2.0.10

Captcha 8.x-1.17

Cleantalk 9.7.0

Commerce 3.3.3

file_permissions 2.1.1

Jwt 2.3.1

node_export 8.x-1.5

Registration 3.4.9

Safedelete 1.0.83

Tagify 1.2.50

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #542 - Another AI Show