Issue 744 - August, 13th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal Association Blog: The Work That Just Happens: The DA Insider for July 2026

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Core

Core Library Definitions Support Before/after Ordering

EntityDefinitionTestTrait Now Declares $entityDefinitionUpdateManager and $State Properties

jQuery().resetForm() Function Removed

PHPUnit Test Methods Can Be Set to Be Skipped by Applying Skip Attribute

Status Messages Now Use ARIA Live Region Roles Instead of the Contentinfo Landmark

Testing Profile No Longer Installs Page Cache and Dynamic Page Cache

The options_allowed_values() and _Options_values_in_use() Functions Have Been Deprecated

update_fetch_with_http_fallback Setting Is Deprecated

Articles

Cheppers: ExperienceKit: AI Landing Page Generation for Drupal - How It Actually Works

Drupal Association Blog: Responding to Drupal Enquiries with a Community-First Mindset

Drupal for Nonprofits: Is This the Right CMS for You?

Helping Agents Discover My Site Search with MCP

LakeDrops Drupal Consulting, Development and Hosting: Why I Use OpenCode as My AI Harness

PreviousNext: Why PreviousNext Signed Drupal's Manifesto for an Open Future

Replatform Radar: Drupal to Headless: The Reference-Integrity Traps

Responsibility Follows Control

Tutorials

Aten Design Group: A/B Testing in Drupal Without the Enterprise Price Tag: A Practical Guide Using the A/B Test JS Module

BloomIdea: Rendering Mermaid Diagrams in Drupal, and the highlight.js Trap Along the Way

Gábor Hojtsy: Introducing Language Audit and Configuration Language Lock for Drupal and Asking for Your Feedback

joshics.in: A Backend Engineer Guide to Single Directory Components in Drupal

Morpht: Customising the Drupal AI Chatbot: Settings, Buttons and the Deep Chat Widget

Morpht: One Click to a Better Page: Field Automation with Drupal AI Automators

Specbee: How to Build Accessible Drupal Themes with Twig and BEM

Tag1 Insights: Building Safer AI Workflows in Drupal with Tool Belt and Workspaces

Releases

admin_navigation 1.1.2

Ai 1.3.11

Ai 1.4.6

Canvas 1.10.0

config_pages 4.0.0

Drupal 10.6.15

Drupal 11.4.5

Eca 2.1.21

Eca 3.0.13

Eca 3.1.5

entity_browser 8.x-2.17

key_auth 2.2.3

Lando v3.26.8

Paragraphs 8.x-1.23

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #564 - Approachable Open Source

Events

Call for Papers Is Open for Mountain Camp 2027

Drupal Mountain Camp returns to Davos on March 2-4, 2027, and the call for papers is now open. Submit a session, a workshop or a panel to be part of it. This is our 10th anniversary, which makes the edition extra special, and we look forward to welcoming you.

The Drop Times: Drupal GovCon 2026 Speakers Preview AI Governance, Migrations, Performance, and Delivery