Issue 688 - June, 26th 2025

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Headlines

Drupal Blog: Drupal 11.2.0 Is Now Available

Drupal Core News: Drupal Core Will Adopt Gin Admin Theme to Replace Claro

DrupalCon News & Updates: DrupalCon Vienna 2025: Where Business Meets Technology

Drupal AI Initiative: Introducing a Free Drupal AI Webinar Series in Partnership with the European Commission

Drupal AI Initiative: Welcome to the Drupal AI Initiative: Webinar with the AI Initiative Leadership Team

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Election

Evolving Web: Support Maya's Candidacy for the Drupal Association Board Elections

The Drop Times: Meet Alexander Varwijk — Candidate for the 2025 Drupal Association Board Election

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The Drop Times: Your Vote, Their Vision: 2025 Drupal Board Election Candidates

Core

System/base Split Into More Conditionally Loaded Libraries

Articles

ComputerMinds.co.uk: The New Autocreate Access Module

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DevCollaborative: Building Websites That Last: The Open Source Superhighway

Drupal Association Blog: Security Matters: Keeping Your Drupal 7 Site Safe Under Extended Support

Drupalize.Me: SEO for Drupal Users: What You Need to Know

Golems GABB: Drupal CMS Auto-Updates: How to Prepare? How to Enable?

How to Design a Better Academic Catalog

Pronovix: Make Your Developer Portal Ready for AI Agents

Salsa Digital: What Drupal AI Means for Government

Specbee: The 7 Most Installed Drupal Security Modules (And Why You Need Them)

The Drop Times: A Look Under the Hood of Lupus Decoupled Drupal

The Midpoint Shift: Navigating the Turning Point in Enterprise Web Projects

Tutorials

Drupal Life Hack's: Mastering OOP and SOLID Principles in PHP with Drupal Examples: A Complete Guide

eiriksm.dev: Drupal Deployment Confidence Part 2: Composer Validate

Recipe Unpack: This Blog Is No Longer on Drupal CMS, and That's a Good Thing | Joshuami

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Releases

Cms 1.2.0

Drupal 10.5.0

Drupal 11.2.0

drupal_cms_ai 1.2.0

drupal_cms_analytics 1.2.0

drupal_cms_seo_tools 1.2.0

drupal_cms_starter 1.2.0

Eca 2.0.18

Eca 2.1.9

environment_indicator 4.0.24

Gin 4.1.0

Gin 5.0.2

Gin 8.x-3.1

Klaro 3.0.6

Linkit 7.0.5

module_filter 5.0.4

S3fs 8.x-3.8

Tour 2.0.10

Workflow 2.1.1

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #508 - Drupal User Groups & Meetups