Issue 723 - March, 19th 2026

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Headlines

Dries Buytaert: What It Costs to Run Drupal's Infrastructure

Drupal Powering Digital Ecosystems: Showcase Your Case Study at the DrupalCon Europe 2026 Success Stories and Innovation Track

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Core

Automated Cron Is No Longer Triggered for CLI Requests

Cache Metadata for Computed Fields Is Now Bubbled for JSON:API Responses

robots.txt Blocks Search Pages with Query Parameters

Tests Will Report Missing Return Types in Drupal Code

text_summary() Is Deprecated and Moved to New TextSummary Service

Url::createFromRequest Does Not Ignore Query Parameters Anymore

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.

Dries Buytaert: Never Submit Code You Don't Understand

Drupal AI Initiative: Announcing Drupal AI 1.3.0: Largest Feature Update Ever!

Introducing coder.ddev.com: DDEV in the Cloud | DDEV

"coder.ddev.com is a free, experimental cloud DDEV service. You log in with GitHub, create a workspace, and get a full DDEV environment in the cloud — no local Docker, no local installation needed."

Jacob Rockowitz: Drupal (AI) Playground: Crawling with Recipes

Pivale: Why Drupal Commerce

Undpaul.de: Drupal AI 1.3.0: Why This Update Matters for Editorial Teams, IT, and Compliance

When the People Who Run the Platform Aren’t the People Who Run the Content

Tutorials

#! Code: Drupal 11: Making Interactive Elements with HTMX

Specbee: How to Add Taxonomy Term References to Canvas (Experience Builder) Components in Drupal

Video Series - #02 Display Builder Config Profiles Feature Walkthrough | UI Suite Initiative Website

Releases

Ai 1.1.11

Ai 1.2.12

Ai 1.3.0

Coder 9.0.0

module_builder 4.2.2

sitewide_alert 3.1.0

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #544 - World Cancer Day