This document provides an overview of Drupal 8, including improvements for end users, site builders, designers, developers, and the timeline for its release. Key points include new mobile-first responsive features, improved authoring tools, stronger multilingual support, use of Symfony components, and a planned release date of November 19, 2015. It encourages contributors to help with documentation, examples, testing and porting existing modules to Drupal 8.

1. Make something amazing, for anyone

2. What is Drupal?
Drupal is open source content management
software maintained and developed by a
community of more than 35,000 developers around
the world who have contributed to the project.
It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License (or "GPL"), which means anyone is
free to download it and share it with others.

3. What is Open Source?
The defining principle of open source is that
anyone can sell services and products created
with the software, but not the software itself.

4. Who uses Drupal?
...and more than a million other organizations

5. Why is Drupal so widely used?
Put simply, it’s the quality of the software and the
community behind it: hundreds of thousands of
people around the world work on developing and
maintaining the Drupal platform and ecosystem
every second of every day.
This makes for an incredibly powerful, cutting-
edge content management system (CMS).

6. What is Drupal 8?
Drupal 8 is the latest release on the Drupal
journey, and one that is substantially more
powerful than previous versions.
Drupal 8 provides new ways to tailor and deploy
content that looks great on any device. However
you work with Drupal, there is something in
Drupal 8 for you to love.

7. In this presentation, you will learn:
What's coming in Drupal 8 for…
End users and clients
Site builders
Designers and themers
Developers
When can I use it?

8. Drupal 8
improvements
for end-users &
clients

9. Authoring experience

10. Authoring improvement:
WYSIWYG in Core

11. Authoring improvement:
In-place editing

12. Authoring improvement:
In-place editing

13. Authoring improvement:
New content creation page

14. Authoring improvement:
Preview on the frontend

15. It’s mobile-first

16. Responsive themes, images, breakpoints

17. Mobile-friendly administration

18. Represent this with a video. Maybe
from Dries’ Prague slides? :)
AB: Submitted to the DA via their
webform, since unfortunately it has
to be on YouTube in order to
reference from here. Bleh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipOc1km2uEc
Improved accessibility

19. Mobile-first “overlay”

20. Drupal 8
improvements for
site builders

21. Improved page building:
Everything is in blocks

22. Improved page building:
Place multiple copies of any block

23. Improved Data Modeling Tools:
New field types like Entity Reference

24. …plus, Link, Phone, Email, Comments!
Improved Data Modeling Tools:
New field types
Date/Datetime

25. Fieldable blocks
Improved Data Modeling Tools:
New entity types

26. Form displays: customize the look and
feel of data entry forms

27. Views in Core

28. Views = fully customizable...
With the Drupal 8 views, you can customize:
Admin listings
Sidebar content
Image galleries
Slideshows
REST output
...with 0 lines of code!

29. Restyled administration interface

30. Multilingual
improvements in
Drupal 8

31. Community translation downloads

32. Language data tracking expanded

33. Translation on (almost) everything

34. Drupal 8
improvements for
designers and themers

36. HTML5 Form Elements

37. New front-end libraries

38. Twig Example: node.html.twig
<article{{ attributes }}>
{{ title_prefix }}
{% if not page %}
<h2{{ title_attributes }}>
<a href="{{ url }}" rel="bookmark">{{ label }}</a>
</h2>
{% endif %}
{{ title_suffix }}
{% if display_submitted %}
<footer class="node__meta">
{{ author_picture }}
<div class="node__submitted {{ author_attributes.class }}"{{
author_attributes|without('class') }}>
{% trans %}Submitted by {{ author_name|passthrough }} on {{ date }}{%
endtrans %}
{{ metadata }}
</div>
</footer>
{% endif %}
<div class="node__content {{ content_attributes.class }}"{{
content_attributes|without('class') }}>
{{ content|without('links') }}
</div>
{% if content.links %}
<div class="node__links">
{{ content.links }}
</div>
{% endif %}
</article>
1. HTML5 tags
2. {{ print a variable }}
3. {% logic(stuff) %}

39. Native Schema.org Output

40. Killed support for IE 6 & 7
(and most of 8)

41. Drupal 8
improvements
for developers

42. Configuration management
dev stage production

45. Let’s see it in action.
https://github.com/webchickenator/drupal8-demo

46. Drush integration for automation

47. Web services
other systems or frameworks
desktop
Android applications
other Drupal sites
Flash components
iPhone applications
kiosk applications

48. HttpFoundation
HttpKernel
Dependency
Injection
EventDispatcher
Routing
Yaml
Symfony framework

49. GETting data out of Drupal:
RESTful Web Services module

50. GETting data into Drupal: Guzzle
$client = Drupal::httpClient();
$config = Drupal::config('3rdparty.settings');
// Format arguments for passing in URL.
$arg = urlencode($argument);
// Pull data from 3rd party's REST API.
$api_key = $config->get('api_key');
$request =
$client-
>get("http://3rdparty.com/$arg/?key=$api_key");
// Get the response and do something with it.
$response = $request->send();
$json = $response->json();
...

51. Getting off the island

52. Not invented here
"Proudly Found Elsewhere"
Much more modern, object-oriented code
(classes, inheritance, interfaces, etc.)
Embracing latest PHP standards (e.g. PSR-0,
namespaces, traits)
Using many “best of breed” external libraries:
Composer, PHPUnit, Guzzle, Zend Feed
Component...

53. Catch all of the improvements!
https://drupal.org/list-changes

55. When will Drupal 8 be released?
November
19th, 2015

56. Drupal 8 Timeline
ReleaseAPI completionFeature development
Development
opens
March 2011
Feature freeze
Dec 2012
Feature
complete
Feb 2013
API freeze
July 2013
Drupal 8.0.0
Nov 19 2015
Alphas
Development
snapshots
Betas
Major APIs
locked down
RCs
API and feature
complete
We are here
RC1
Oct 2015

57. https://drupal.org/contribute
Where do we need help?
Migration path
Port contributed modules/themes
Translate Drupal 8
DOCUMENTATION!
EXAMPLES!
TOOLS!
TESTING, TESTING, TESTING!

58. Alphas, (still have time to
fix APIs!)
Betas/RCs
(~late 2015)
Once these lines
cross
(~2016)
Platform’s proven,
but community’s
looking forward to
Drupal 8.x/9.
Module / Theme
Developer
Early Adopter / Launch
in late-2015+
Late Adopter / Launch
in 2016+
Conservative
When should I use Drupal 8?
Keep your eyes on https://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal
Usage

59. What’s this 8.0.0 talk?
Drupal 8 will use semantic versioning
Drupal 8.1.0 will include new features and/or
APIs
New releases will be (mostly) backwards
compatible
New 8.x releases every 6 months (planned)
No need to wait years for new things
Bugfixes in minor releases, eg. 8.1.5

60. What about the upgrade path?
Instead of an upgrade path, Drupal 8 will have
a migration path!
Some Drupal 6 migrations already in core,
more in the works, see
https://groups.drupal.org/imp

61. What about contributed modules?
Check status of contrib module upgrades at:
drupal.org/project/contrib_tracker
To avoid upgrade pain, stick to well-vetted
contributed modules over custom code.
Other tips: www.acquia.com/blog/getting-
your-
site-ready-drupal-8

62. And my own modules?
To start the upgrade of you own code, use
drupal.org/project/drupalmoduleupgrader
If you need to or want to start your module
fresh, see drupal.org/project/console