Issue 725 - April, 2nd 2026

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Headlines

Community Working Group Posts: April Sides Wins the 2026 Aaron Winborn Award

Dries Buytaert: State of Drupal Presentation (March 2026)

Drupal 12 Switches to Argon2id

DrupalCon News & Updates: Your Drupal CMS Track at DrupalCon Europe Rotterdam 2026

From Our Sponsor

Core

Default Password Hashing Algorithm Is Now Argon2id

Fallback to sendmail_from Ini Setting Removed

Kernel Tests Can Make HTTP Requests with drupalGet()

locale.settings:translation.path Config Is Deprecated in Favor of locale_translation_path Setting

User and Media Document and Image Create Links Removed from Navigation

Articles

1xINTERNET Blog: Driving Drupal AI: 1xINTERNET at DrupalCon Chicago 2026

A Drupal Couple: My DrupalCon Chicago Retrospective

Agaric Collective: Publish Once in Drupal, Syndicate Everywhere Presentation Resource Page

Dripyard Premium Drupal Themes: Dripyard’s DrupalCon Chicago Wrapup

Drupal AI Initiative: Beyond the "AI Average": How Drupal Is the Future of ‘Quality at Scale’

Drupal AI Initiative: Six Months Following DrupalCon Vienna: The Drupal AI Initiative Arrives in Chicago, Showing Significant Progress and Major Releases

Drupal Blog: Not Just a Starting Point. a Head Start. Drupal's New Site Templates Are Built for Your World.

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Jacob Rockowitz: Drupal (AI) Playground: Balancing with Skills

Jacob Rockowitz: Drupal (AI) Playground: Building a Module

Matt Glaman: How Drupal's Chained Fast Backend Keeps APCu Cache Consistent Across Your Web Servers

Matthew Tift: The Quiet Room at DrupalCon

The Drop Times: Debate Grows Around Open Source Funding After Drupal Infrastructure Analysis

The Drop Times: Dries Buytaert Reframes Drupal’s Role as AI Reshapes the CMS Ecosystem

Tutorials

#! Code: Drupal 11: Building a "Load More" Feature for Paginating Nodes Using HTMX

Contributor Training: `git Worktree` for Multiple DDEV Projects | DDEV

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Releases

Canvas 1.3.2

Commerce 3.3.4

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #546 - DrupalCon Chicago