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Thu, 19/06/2025 - 15:05

New in Drupal 11.2

The second feature release of Drupal 11 improves backend and frontend performance and scalability, completes the introduction of OOP support of hooks, adds JSON Schema support, includes AVIF image format capability, supports SDC variants, and more.

Drupal 11.2.0 now available

Extension and site installation is three to four times as fast as Drupal 11.1.0

Thanks to various optimizations to container rebuilding and the installer, installing Drupal itself or extensions is now three to four times as fast. There are similar improvements when using the user interface, but it is more apparent when using Drush. In this video, we show Drupal 11.2 installing 60 modules in 5.7 seconds while Drupal 11.1 takes four times as much to do the same:

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Thu, 19/06/2025 - 14:24

Beneath a torn plastic sheet, Saif Al-Hibl lies on the sand. A displaced man from the Al-Manshiyah neighbourhood in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, he bought the shredded tent on credit after relentless Israeli bombardment left him and his family homeless. ‘The heat inside the tent is unbearable,’ he says bitterly. ‘What brought us here […]

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Thu, 19/06/2025 - 13:49

Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special” unit created for rich Big Tech mavens seeking military leadership roles. On June 13, the Army announced the creation of Detachment 201, otherwise known as the “Executive Innovation Corps,” which it describes as “a new initiative designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation.” Four ultra-wealthy executives from top tech companies were sworn in to […]

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Thu, 19/06/2025 - 03:00

It’s me, your body, the one you’ve inhabited for thirty-plus years. I refuse to say exactly how many, because, as of today, keeping a precise count for you is no longer in my purview. Due to your blatant disregard for my efforts, I won’t be performing any further Sisyphean score-tallying tasks on your behalf. In fact, at this point, I’d rather work for Sisyphus. At least if I gave him persistent back pain, he wouldn’t try to deny that it had something to do with the giant boulder. Nor would he expect to be magically cured by an overpriced magnesium supplement and a long weekend upstate.