Issue 748 - September, 10th 2026

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Headlines

Drupal Association Blog: Take Part in the 2026 Drupal Business Survey

Drupal AI Initiative: Yesterday's CMS Published Pages. Tomorrow's CMS Publishes Capabilities

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Core

ConfigEntityBase Now Has Static Helpers for loadOverrideFree and loadMultipleOverrideFree

Database Schema Definition API Now Supports Creation of Generated Columns

DrupalCoreRecipeRecipeRunner::isApplying()

Functions in update.compare.inc Are Deprecated

Htmx Now Uses Version 4

MarkFutureUpdateEquivalent Attribute Added to Register Equivalent Updates on Site Install

Performance Tests Can Now Store Expected Metrics and Queries in Separate Files and Update Them

PostgreSQL Merge Query Executes as a Single Native Merge Query

PostgreSQL Type-Casting of Fields in Raw SQL with LIKE and Regex Operators Is Deprecated

user_role_grant_permissions(), user_role_revoke_permissions() and user_role_change_permissions() Are Deprecated

View Mode Dependencies Are Recalculated

Articles

Aten Design Group: Who Owns the Icon? Building Author-Friendly Icon Systems in Drupal

Berliners Blog: Rebuilding a Data-Driven Drupal Site: Page Templates with Layout Builder

ImageX: Rollback Ready: Why Drupal Content Revisions Are an Underrated Backup Tool

Jacob Rockowitz: Vibing Drupal: Switching from "Brat Mode" to "Drupal Mode"

Matt Glaman: Making the Phpstan-Drupal Playground Work for Agents

Matt Glaman: simplytest.me Should Be Good Enough to Sell Drupal With

The Drop Times: Your Client Is Not a Ticket

Tutorials

Metadrop: Fixing Missing Image Alt Attributes in Drupal Without Development

PreviousNext: If You're Using Twig's Raw Filter with Drupal, You're Doing It Wrong

Specbee: Drupal Canvas Hides Most Metatag Fields Behind One SEO Title Box. Check Out How Canvas Page Metatag Restores Them and Fixes a Robots Checkbox Bug.

Très Bien Blog: Composer Drupal-Patch-Check

Releases

advanced_search 2.4.5

Ai 1.3.13

Ai 1.4.8

Canvas 1.11.0

Commerce 3.3.9

commerce_shipping 3.0.4

component_blocks 1.2.7

Ddev v1.25.4

DDEV v1.25.4: Database Seeding and Reset, MySQL 9.7 LTS, Global Configuration, New Project Types | DDEV