Issue 712 - December, 18th 2025

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Headlines

Drupal Blog: Drupal 11.3.0 Is Now Available

Drupal Core News: Drupal 11.3.0: Biggest Performance Boost in a Decade

Drupal Blog: Drupal Security Advisories Are Now Available in OSV Database

Drupal Core News: Native HTMX in Drupal 11.3.0: Rich UX with Up to 71% Less JavaScript

Drupal.org Blog: GitLab CI: Drupal's Strategy to Empower a Whole Ecosystem

DrupalCon Chicago 2026: Early Bird Tickets, T-Shirt Contest, and a Full Day of Drupal Learning You Don’t Want to Miss

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Drupal AI Initiative: DrupalCon Nara 2025: The AI Sessions You Should Watch

Drupal AI Initiative: Reflections from the Drupal AI Summit in Paris

Drupal Advent

Advent Calendar Day 10 – EditTogether: Real-Time Collaborative Editing Comes to Drupal

Advent Calendar Day 11 – Drupal Canvas Unleashed: The Future of Drupal Is Here

Advent Calendar Day 12 - Queue, Our Esteemed Utility

Advent Calendar Day 13 – If You Give a Member Platform a Cookie...

Advent Calendar Day 14 – Brilliant, but Doubting

Advent Calendar Day 15 – Drupal CMS Launch Party

Advent Calendar Day 16 – Drupal CMS Now and Beyond

Advent Calendar Day 9 – How to Land an EPIC Contribution in Drupal (Without Losing Your Mind)

Can Everyone Hear You? Captions and Sign Language

Can You Turn Your Phone? Orientation and Reflow

Catching Accessibility Issues While You Edit: Editoria11y

Does Your Code Mean What It Says? Info and Relationships

The Accessibility Overlay Trap: Why "One Line of Code" Won't Save You

What Does That Image Say? Non-Text Content

What's Happening on Screen? Audio Description for Videos

Core

Justinrainbow/json-Schema Moved to a Production Dependency of Drupal Core

Single Cardinality Entity Fields Are Now Loaded from the Database at Once

Static Calls to Overridden Entity Type Will Still Work if the Entity Type Is Overridden Another Time

Articles

A Blog Is a Biography

Can AI Clean Up Its Own Mess?

I Open-Sourced My Blog Content

Mind Over Malfunction: Emotional Intelligence in Debugging

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Tutorials

Drunomics: Lupus Decoupled 1.4: Component Previews, Canvas-Ready, and a Better JSON API Enabling Native Vue Slots

ImageX: Everything You Need to Know About Organizing Content with Drupal

Specbee: Drupal Paragraphs or Layout Builder? When to Use What

Releases

Belgrade 3.0.3

Drupal 10.6.0

Drupal 11.2.10

Drupal 11.3.0

Htmx 1.5.2

Lando v3.26.2

Pdf 8.x-1.3

Podcasts

Talking Drupal #532 - AI Marketing and Stuff