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Issue 689 of TheWeeklyDrop, curated by Bob Kepford, offers a thorough weekly roundup for the Drupal community. This edition highlights major developments such as the Drupal AI Initiative and early momentum for DrupalCon North America 2026. It includes essential Core updates on deprecations and technical refinements, a curated list of articles on security, enterprise workflows, and AI trends, plus hands-on tutorials to deepen practical knowledge. The newsletter rounds out with recent module and core releases, podcast episodes for continued learning, and job postings to support professional growth within the Drupal ecosystem.

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This episode of Talking Drupal explores UI Suite 2.0—a powerful suite of modules aimed at integrating modern design systems into Drupal workflows. The conversation unpacks how UI Suite simplifies front-end development by abstracting complex theming into YAML, supporting reusable themes, and aligning Drupal with common design practices. The hosts also highlight the new Icon API and its role in standardizing icon usage across themes. Additionally, the “Module of the Week,” Field Formatter Range, is introduced as a handy tool for rendering specific values from multi-value fields. Overall, this episode showcases UI Suite’s mission to make Drupal a design-system-native CMS.

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This podcast episode of Talking Drupal features a deep dive with Drupal core contributors into the transformation of Drupal’s foundational “hooks” system from procedural code to an object-oriented programming (OOP) model. The discussion explains what hooks are, why they’ve been central to Drupal’s extensibility, and what challenges led to this architectural evolution. Listeners will gain insight into the role of dependency injection, improved PHP tooling, and the complexities of maintaining backward compatibility while modernizing core. The episode also explores the community-driven nature of this change and what it means for Drupal's future development.

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