Drupal 8 introduces significant enhancements, including a new mobile-first design, improved configuration management, and built-in web services, making it easier for users to create and manage content. Key features also include an upgraded authoring experience with CKEditor, multilingual capabilities, and robust accessibility support. Additionally, tools like Drush and the Drupal Console streamline development and administration, while the Twig template engine allows for flexible theming.

1. 4+ Years. 200+ Improvements. 3,000+ Core Contributors.
The Biggest Drupal Release Ever.
Drupal 8

2. Drupal 8 sets a new standard for ease of use, and
allows users to create and deploy content in a
whole new way.
• Mobile-first
• Content looks beautiful on all devices, out
of the box.
• New configuration management
• Manage site configuration via version
control: export, import, share and merge.
What’s New in Drupal 8?

3. • A better authoring experience
• Manage your content easily with the
bundled CKEditor WYSIWYG editor and the
ability to edit in-place.
• Views in Core
• Customize all your views—the front page,
listing blocks, admin pages, filters, and
create your own custom listings without
installing any additional code.
• Multilingual capabilities
• Reach a global audience through
translating with built-in user interfaces
What’s New in Drupal 8?

4. • HTML 5 based-markup
• Apply core updates quickly and with
confidence.
• Built-in web services
• Use Drupal as a REST API for mobile apps,
decoupled frontends, and more.
• Flexible and fast theming
• Use the Twig template engine to build
beautiful sites easily and quickly.
• Object-oriented programming
• Welcoming non-Drupal developers with
an industry standard approach.
What’s New in Drupal 8?

5. • Strong accessibility features
• Support for standard accessibility
technologies means optimal user
experience.
Learn more about the Drupal 8 features at
drupal.org/drupal-8.0.
What’s New in Drupal 8?

6. Drush and the Drupal Console
Drush and the Drupal Console are both
command line tools that make administration
and development tasks for Drupal websites
much faster. In Drupal 8, these tools will
improve your workflow by providing a wide
arsenal of commands to speed up your ability
to build and maintain sites.
Learn how to install Drupal 8 and write a
module in this Introduction to Drush and
Drupal Console by Greg Anderson.

7. The Latest in Configuration
Management
Drupal 8

8. Configuration Management
Managing configuration is an important part of
any multi-person website project. The tools
available for Drupal 7 didn’t provide complete
coverage of all configuration settings, but
Drupal 8 has changed all of that.
Drupal 8’s new configuration management
system provides complete and consistent
import and export of all config settings.

9. Configuration Management
Git already provides facilities for managing
parallel work on different branches. When
conflicts occur, you can back out the
conflicting changes, take just the version
provided in the central repository, or if neither
of these alternatives are appropriate, use
three-way merge tools to examine and
manually resolve each difference.
A new Drush project, config-extra, includes a
config-merge command that streamlines the
use of these tools.

10. Twig replaced PHPTemplate in
Drupal 8 as its default template
engine. Twig provides a lot of new
functionality. It’s flexible and fast,
allowing developers to create their
own custom tags and filters and
reduces the majority of overhead
related to regular PHP code by
compiling templates down to plain
optimized PHP.
New Options for Frontend
TWIG Templating More Staff Time
Decoupled architecture has never
been easier than with Drupal 8,
which ships with a RESTful API built
into Core. It lets frontend
developers experiment with various
javascript frameworks, iOS apps, or
even other content management
systems to be innovative with the
UI but rely on Drupal’s powerful
backend.
Decoupled Architecture

11. Panels and Page Manager
Drupal 8 core is great for managing lots and
lots of content. Users can choose new
Content types, add arbitrary Fields, and then
create endless pieces of content of that type.
However, when it comes to creating one-off
landing pages or applying custom layouts,
Panels and Page Manager are still the way to
go.

12. Panels and Page Manager
The Panels module gives Drupal site
administrators the ability to create customized
layouts for various uses. Its drag and drop
interface allows users to visually design a page
layout and organize content within it. The
architecture of Panels in Drupal 8 is largely the
same as in Drupal 7, with some shifting in
certain functionality and module responsibility.

13. Drupal 8 on Pantheon
Drupal 8

14. The Latest Stack + The Latest Drupal
Pantheon provides the complete Drupal 8 experience:
• We have extensive experience with PHP 5.6.
• Run Drupal 8 alongside all your other sites from a single dashboard—toggling
between environments to keep your old projects. Our container-based platform will
ensure you’re running the right versions of PHP for any Drupal site.
• Drupal 8 was designed with workflow-centric platforms in mind. We designed
Pantheon with workflow and best practices built in.
• Our export configuration button will make site building more accessible than ever,
welcoming developers of all backgrounds and levels of experience to the Drupal
world.
• We support Drush 8, the only Drush version that works with the latest Drupal.

15. Start your Drupal projects on
Pantheon today.
You’ve seen the platform designed for
Drupal, now see Drupal designed for the
platform.
Click here to learn more.