Friday, October 2, 2026
We started with Drupal-related notes:
- Drupal 11.4.8 released; also Drupal 12.0.0-beta1
- Drupal CMS 2.2.0 released
- Drupal Canvas 1.12.0 released
- Drupal CMS 2.2: multilingual out of the box
- Toolbar module being deprecated in core
- Toolbar module being removed in later core
- Claro theme being deprecated in core
- Claro theme being removed in later core
- Olivero theme being deprecated in core
- Olivero theme being removed in later core
- Search module being removed in core
- the .module extension is being deprecated
- deprecating views_invalidate_cache; new Views plugin postSave API introduced
- deprecating drupal_attach_tabledrag()
- CKEditor 5 AddItemToToolbar now supports adding multiple items
- dangerous characters in filenames being replaced
- Drupal Jobs (jobs.drupal.org) has closed
- building the next chapter of Drupal's infrastructure
- introducing an official Drupal AI Initiative training program
- advanced warning for critical contributed project security release on September 23rd
- webform 6.3.1 releases with 20 security issues fixed
- vibing Drupal: using AI to hammer at the Webform module's security issues
- Acquia rebrands around content and Drupal
- DriesNote Rotterdam: Drupal is light-years ahead of its reputation
- DrupalCon Rotterdam DriesNote launches advocacy program and proposes Rosetta sprint
- Acquia redirects DrupalCon Rotterdam booth spend into $50,000 Drupal donation
- the public record Drupal deserves
- the Drupal advocacy program
- 15 of 28 Drupal core maintainer vacancies from 2025 remain unassigned
- ECA 1.0.0 reaches stable release, replaces earlier AI integrations
- introducing AI Automators Agent
- what EU digital identity wallets could mean for Drupal
- optimizing Drupal Core CI
- a great leap backwards: fixed configuration
- making an AI harness build a killer feature in Drupal
- 13 Drupal AI features at a glance
- using AI webform generator to build Drupal webforms from a single sentence
- vibing Drupal: using AI to build and contribute a module
- vibing Drupal: what's your take on the /grill-me skill?
- Drupal's Got Talent at DrupalCon Orlando 2027
Next, general web (and other) notes:
- August 2026 Baseline monthly digest
- ready for developer testing: single-axis scroll containers
- highlight from Git 2.56
- State of Devs 2026 survey results
- Cloudflare moves their blog to EmDash
- WCAG 3 update - conformance
- WCAG 3's road to hell is paved with supplemental requirements
- sources say Automattic's board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg
- Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster
- Trump seeks to rename artificial intelligence as "super intelligence" in UN speech
- GSA's web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer
- Iran strikes on Amazon data centres caused permanent loss of customer data
- the front-end community is still alive and beautiful
- the case against JPEG-XL
- how to address organizational debt in state government
- OpenAI's frameworks for reporting model misalignment
- what are code reviews even for?
- maybe we shouldn't be reviewing all this code
- making bot traffic cheap
- audit your agent files
- the death of web development education - rescuing a field from disappearing
- props are not a design system
- blurry before beautiful: image previews for the web
- stop buttons triggering zoom when they're double tapped
- sidenotes, created with CSS anchor positioning
- stop treating CSS container queries like traditional media queries
- Interop 2027 and beyond
- SF Symbols font from Apple's developer site
- Petdex - animated pets for your coding agents
- destroy any website
At the end of the meeting, we recommended people watch the "DriesNote" from DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026.
Recommended video
These "regular" Web Dev Rev meetings generally happen once every 3 weeks. The next session is scheduled for October 27th, 2026.