Thursday, June 4, 2026
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 11.3.11 release; 11.4.0-beta1
- Drupal Canvas 1.5.0 release
- Drupal AI 1.4.0 release; 1.4.1
- Drupal AI Agents 1.3.0 release
- Curated Colors contrib module
- "Manage display" now defaults to a display-builder agnostic overview page
- the check_markup() function is deprecated
- Drupal core security advisory SA-CORE-2026-004
- user_cookie_save() and user_cookie_delete() are deprecated
- block content attributes are moved to the content wrapper
- AI-generated Rector rules for Drupal
- ten years of Drupal code history
- skills that matter in the age of AI
- the gap between Drupal and its reputation
- why Drupal CMS matters
- Acquia builds Drupal funding into its partner program
- Drupal AI Playground: AI ate my work, and I need to be OK with that
- Drupal AI Playground: AIs are eating our websites, and we need to adapt
- ten months that changed everything: an ECA journey
- create your own AI agents for Drupal Canvas
- Drupal's next great hurdle: organizing competing contrib modules
- Drupal 12 readiness starts showing up in contrib
- higher education website best practices: a strategy guide
- getting comfortable with Gitlab and the Drupal issue queue
- Pantheon vs. Acquia: a head-to-head comparison (by Pantheon)
- grow the ecosystem, not just yourself
- Acquia vs. Pantheon
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- Twig 3.26.0 released
- new to the web platform in May
- streamline your AI coding workflow with Chrome DevTools for agents
- introducing Claude Opus 4.8
- Composer 2.9.8 and 2.2.28 fix token disclosure issue
- responsible use of artificial intelligence in government
- behind the scenes hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos preview
- OpenAI co-founder joins Anthropic's pre-training team
- State of AI 2026
- Google's modern web guidance
- maybe don't rely on Google's modern web guidance
- 15 updates from Google I/O 2026
- Claude Mythos audited Symfony and found 19 vulnerabilities
- Anthropic's coordinated vulnerability disclosure dashboard
- the night the internet tried to kill your website
- AI sticker shock hits corporate America
- when we stopped asking Stack Oveflow
- software developers say AI is rotting their brains
- AI is already shaping your reputation
- track how often you swear at AI
- browsers treat big sites differently
- better browser caching with no-vary-search
- gap decorations: now available in Chromium
- computing and displaying discounted prices in CSS
- moving away from Tailwind and learning to structure CSS
- a few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS
- when to use (and not use) CSS shorthand properties
- better fluid sizing with round()
- the state of CSS centering in 2026
- State of CSS 2026
- what's missing in CSS layout
- a CSS framework designed to make plain HTML modern and responsive
- how different hiding methods impact accessibility
- framework-agnostic design systems
- how the DMA is giving people browser choice
- Google accidentally exposed details of unfixed Chromium flaw
- tolerating inaccessibility
- colour, contrast, and creativity
- why McGill's websites can be hard to navigate, and what they're doing to fix that
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch "AI for Drupal Devs: Cutting Through the Hype" from DrupalCamp Ottawa.
Recommended video
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next session is currently scheduled for June 23rd, 2026.