Issue 749 - September, 17th 2026

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Headlines

Dries Buytaert: Acquia Rebrands Around Content and Drupal

"So alongside the new brand, we'll be investing more in helping the Drupal community evangelize Drupal, reaching developers and marketing leaders who may not have looked at it in years. I want more people to see what Drupal has become."

From Our Sponsor

AI

Freelock Blog: Using AI to Review AI-Generated Code: Astra vs. Opus vs. DeepSeek

How We Build with AI, and Where We Draw the Lines

Morpht: Sitewide Governance for AI Answers: The Context Control Center and Your Chatbot

Sitback Solutions: Vibe-Coding My Dream CMS (An Internal Monologue)

Core

All Update_* Functions in update.inc Are Deprecated

CSSLint and ESLint Configuration Files Are No Longer Scaffolded

Deprecated views_invalidate_cache, New Views Plugin postSave API Introduced

getModulesToInstall() and getThemesToInstall() Added to the Installer Interfaces

locale_get_plural() Is Deprecated, Replaced by PluralIndexInterface Service

The User Entity 'member_for' Extra Field Is Deprecated

Toolbar Is Deprecated

Articles

Berliners Blog: Rebuilding a Data-Driven Drupal Site: Separating Data Objects from Pages

Centarro: Centarro Bootstrap: A Centralized Design System for Drupal Commerce

Cheppers: ExperienceKit: How NGOs Can Launch Campaign Pages in Hours, Not Weeks

Dries Buytaert: The 60-Second Procurement Test

Drunomics: Building an Open Source Knowledge Base for the AI Era

Making Bot Traffic Cheap

Matt Glaman: Define the Capability Once; Call It from Anywhere

Specbee: Wondering Why Drupal Needs Another Page Builder? Here's What I Learned Installing Drupal Canvas, Exposing My SDCs, and Writing React Right in the Browser.

Très Bien Blog: Drupal Code Search Now Index Recipes

Tutorials

ImageX: How to Build Multi-Step Drupal Forms That Adapt to the User’s Choices

Putting Paths First: Views Support for Path Alias Entities | Joachim's Blog

Releases

Docker4drupal 6.2.10

Eca 3.1.8

Graphql 5.1.0

url_entity 1.1.0

Podcasts

Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #569 - Site Templates