Issue 722 - March, 12th 2026
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Drupal AI Initiative: Drupal AI Summit NYC: Building AI That Lasts
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Core
All Functions in locale.fetch.inc Are Deprecated
Disabled Links Are Now Ignored in Active Trail
Layout Builder Storage Plugins Must Implement SupportAwareSectionStorageInterface
The Node/form Library Is Deprecated
The Trusted Data Concept in Config and Config Entities Is Deprecated
Articles
#! Code: DrupalCamp England 2026
Announcement – Display Builder 1.0.0-Beta3 Is Out! | UI Suite Initiative Website
Building a Design System in WordPress Gutenberg: A Drupal Developer's Perspective
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%.
Debug Academy: Accelerating Drupal Core Development
Dries Buytaert: Open Source Infrastructure Deserves a Business Model
Jacob Rockowitz: Clauding at Symfony Within Drupal
Markdown, llms.txt and AI Crawlers
Tutorials
CodeLift: Making Drupal Config UUIDs Deterministic: Storage Decorators, UUIDv5, and Edge Cases
DDEV v1.25.1 Docker Buildx Requirement | DDEV
Gábor Hojtsy: My Experiment in Bringing Drupal Module Upgrader Back from the Dead in Less Than 24 Hours
ImageX: Accessibility and SEO in Drupal: Working Better Together
Matt Glaman: The Nightmare of Permissions and OAuth Scopes in Drupal
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