Issue 738 - July, 2nd 2026

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Headlines

Dries Buytaert - Launching Drupal's Outside AI Workstream

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AI

Dries Buytaert - the Privilege of AI in Open Source

Drupal AI Initiative: Drupal AI Initiative: Introducing inside AI and Outside AI

Drupal AI Initiative: Which AI Summit Is Right for You at DrupalCon Rotterdam?

Jacob Rockowitz: Vibing Drupal: New Kids on the Block

Tag1 Insights: Building a Production-Ready Drupal Module in a Weekend with AI: The LinkStash Story

The Drop Times: Drupal Aims to Reduce AI Agent Friction

Core

Commenting Is Not Enabled in Drupal by Default Anymore

CssOptimizer loadFile() Is Now a Protected Function

Drupal/core-Recommended Allows Minor Updates of Dependencies

Locale Submit Callbacks Have Been Deprecated

Route Preloading/caching Changes

RowPluginBase::render() Only Accepts DrupalviewsResultRow

Telephone Module Is Deprecated

The Standard Install Profile and Recipe Does Not Include the Tags Vocabulary Anymore

Articles

A Drupal Couple: We Used Our Own Plugins and Skills to Rebuild Our Site, Here Is the Story

Acquia.com - Drupal Blog: Vibe Coding Drupal: A Force Multiplier for Contrib

Aten Design Group: Drupal Metatag Module Basics for Content Editors

Centarro: How Centarro Handles Critical Drupal Security Releases

Dripyard: Why CSS Style Queries Are a Bigger Deal Than You Think

LakeDrops: Three Players, One Direction: ECA, FlowDrop, and Maestro

The Drop Times: Andy Marquis Outlines Custom Field’s Role Alongside Paragraphs in Drupal

The Drop Times: Drupal Orchestration Spec Maps ECA, FlowDrop and Maestro

Tutorials

Specbee: Build and Publish Pages with Drupal Canvas AI Without Waiting on Developers

Releases

Ai 1.2.17

Ai 1.3.8

Ai 1.4.3

Canvas 1.7.0

Paragraphs 8.x-1.21

stage_file_proxy 4.0.0

Tour 3.0.0

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #559 - Marketing Drupal