Friday, October 17, 2025
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal releases 11.2.5; 10.5.4
- Canvas releases 1.0.0-beta1; 1.0.0-beta2; 1.0.0-rc1
- Drupal CMS releases 1.2.8; 2.0.0-alpha1
- Drupal 11.3.x alpha phase begins October 29
- Drupal AI 1.2.0-beta1 and AI Agents 1.2.0-beta1 are out
- Drupal AI and AI Agents 1.2.0 stable release is out
- migrate source plugins for legacy upgrade are deprecated (and being removed in Drupal 12)
- page cache middleware uses services closure to speed up serving cached pages
- the path alias preload cache has been removed
- broken RSS-related items are removed
- legacy hook functions are now attributed to the current module
- Drupal running toward to AI storm
- Drupal AI development progress week 39-40
- Drupal AI use cases
- Drupal for Education landing page updated
- how AI accelerates test-driven development in Drupal
- how to build a scalable design system in Drupal projects
- introducing the AI Context module
- AI-driven testing in Drupal
- introducing DrupalEasy Show & Tell
- Drupal Deprecation Status Dashboard relaunched
- Canvas, SDC, and the future of Drupal
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- why Pantheon is deploying a new PHP runtime
- new to the web platform in August; September
- August 2025 Baseline monthly digest; September 2025
- what's new in Lighthouse 13
- W3C logo refresh
- what developers are saying after testing Claude Sonnet 4.5
- Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, now he wants to save it
- JSON is not JSON across languages
- code reviews using AI
- brainstorming terrible ideas in a group
- the grayscale problem
- how much do you really know about media queries?
- a pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours
- the new progress() function in CSS
- watching CSS masonry evolve
- the llms.txt file
- Copilot coding agent now supports AGENTS.md
- what is AGENTS.md?
- Junie support for AGENTS.md coming
- the design systems of higher education
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the "DriesNote" from DrupalCon Vienna 2025.
Recommended video
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks; the next session is scheduled for November 7th.