Issue 724 - March, 26th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal Blog: Drupal at 25: Built to Last. Ready for What's Next.

Drupal Core News: Help Us Reach Drupal 12's Second Release Window in August

Josh Koenig on Drupal Adoption Decline

Worth reading if you are in the Drupal ecosystem. Probably not shocking to anyone, but Josh makes many good points.

From Our Sponsor

Core

Class Variance Authority (CVA) Support Added to Twig

Functions Providing a Widget to Enable Content Translation on Bundle Form Are Moved to a Service

user_load_by_mail() and user_load_by_name() Are Deprecated

Articles

Announcement – Display Builder 1.0.0-Beta4 Is Released | UI Suite Initiative Website

CKEditor: New in CKEditor Drupal Modules: CKEditor AI and More

CodeLift: Building a Drupal Contrib Module with AI-Assisted TDD

Four Kitchens: The Browser Has Grown Up. Have We?

ImageX: Top Drupal Modules: How These Giants Can Transform Your Website

Jacob Rockowitz: Drupal (AI) Playground: Walking with AGENTS.md

New Module Builder Documentation Site | Joachim's Blog

Tag1 Insights: Preparing File Upload Secure Validator for Drupal 12 with AI

Wim Leers: Validation-First

Tutorials

Catch @todo Comments Referencing the Current Issue

Darren Oh: Undocumented Trick to Make Composer Copy a Local Package Repository

Deploying to Private Servers via WireGuard from GitHub Actions

ImageX: Take Control of Links in Drupal with Modules Like Linkit and Editor Advanced Link

Pronovix: How to Serve Markdown to AI Agents Without Breaking Your SEO

Smartbees: Integrating Forms with an External Database

Releases

Ai 1.3.1

Autologout 2.0.2

Autologout 8.x-1.7

Canvas 1.3.1

Cms 2.1.0

Webform 6.2.10

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #545 - DKAN