Issue 746 - August, 27th 2026

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News

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AI

Acquia.com - Drupal Blog: From Headless CMS to AI Harness: What I Took to Decoupled Days

Drupal AI Initiative: Your Next Website Visitor Might Not Be Human

How AI Is Redefining Agency Value

Core

Drupal Core Releases Will No Longer Include Tests

Drupal No Longer Collects Legacy Hooks Outside of the Main Extension File

Filters Now Store the allowed_html Setting as a Sorted String for Better Diffs

FunctionalTestSetupTrait::installModulesFromClassProperty() Is Deprecated

Install Profiles Can Opt Out of Being Installed

Link Field Validation Constraints Are More Specific and Provides Enough Detail to Editors

Roles Can Now Have Descriptions

RouteSubscriberBase Can Define Routes as Well as Alter Them

Several Locale Functions Have Been Deprecated

The 'testing' Profile No Longer Includes Configuration for Locale Modules or 'body_field'

The Shortcut Module Is Deprecated

DrupalCon

DrupalCon News & Updates: DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 T-Shirt Design Contest

DrupalCon News & Updates: Migrating to Drupal CMS: From Classic Drupal & Other Platforms

Articles

The Drop Times: Drupal Security Team Marks 16 Contributed Projects Unsupported in Ten Weeks

The Drop Times: Eight DAM Decisions for Drupal Teams

Très Bien Blog: Drupal Code Query MCP Server

Will Your Digital Platform Outlast Your Administration?

Tutorials

Drupal 12 and HTMX 4 | Drupal Patterns

Rendering Content for HTMX | Drupal Patterns

Specbee: Are You Building a Drupal Module That Already Exists? Meet Module Scout

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