Drupal 8 is the next major version of the Drupal content management system. Some key facts about Drupal 8 include that it has over 12,000 commits from over 2,000 developers. Drupal 8 focuses on improved user experience, accessibility, and mobile capabilities. It also includes new configuration management and improved entity and field systems. Drupal 8 utilizes modern frameworks like Symfony and Twig and is designed with a responsive and mobile-first approach. The expected release date for the stable version is mid-2015.

1. Drupal 8
The next dimension

4. Facts
>12’000 commits
>200 new features
Global top 5: Sascha Grossenbacher - Berdir
>2137 developers
>795 companies
>3.5 years since D7

5. Event with >3000 Developers

6. Official key values 1
Mobile in its DNA
New Configuration Management
A Better User Experience
Effortless Authoring
Views, Out of the Box
Better Markup with HTML 5

7. Official key values 2
Multilingual Capabilities
Accessibility Integration
Built-in Web Services
Fun and Fast Theming
Field Power
Industry Standard Approach

8. Even worse
● Integrability with
hosting structures
Criticism of Drupal (7)
All important improved
● Usability
● Learning curve
● Backward compatibility
● Performance/scalability
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal

9. More than 20 of the
top 100 Modules no
more needed.
Already in Drupal 7: File Field,
Image API, ImageField,
ImageCache, Poormanscron
Contrib in Core
Views, ctools, Date, Webform,
Entity API, WYSIWYG, CKEditor,
Link, jQuery Update, Module
Filter, CCK, Features,
Transliteration, Localization
Update, Entity Reference,
Internationalization, Email
Field, Strongarm, jQuery UI
https://drupal.org/project/usage

10. When beta release
Expected:
~September 2014
Currently:
~13 blockers
(Status: 2014-06-18 14:00 CEST)

11. When release 8.0 stable
Expected:
~Mid 2015
NO blocker for us!

12. Demo

13. Core transition
True enterprise architecture
Still efficient for small
Top modern system
Abstraction
Modularity
Testability
Unified APIs
● Entities
● Plugins

14. Efficient data migration from
ANY CMS / source
Typo 3, Wordpress
Incremental updates
Migrate
Import data
Process data
http://www.unimitysolutions.com/blog/understand-drupal-8-mobile-initiative

15. Mobile first
Responsive
● Breakpoints
● Tables, Columns
● Images
HTML 5
Inputs
Accessibly from any
device
Always with the best
experience
http://www.unimitysolutions.com/blog/understand-drupal-8-mobile-initiative

16. Authoring
Modern editor
Clean UI
Write even mobile
WYSIWYG
● CKEditor 4
Quick edit
Action buttons
Metadata sidebar
Validation
Form modes

17. Configuration management
Config entities
YAML
Better Workflows!
⇔ Development
⇔ Staging
⇔ Production

18. Web services
Easier integration with
third party systems
Standard compliant data
source or data sink for
ANY application
REST services
(Validation)
UUIDs
JSON
XML-RPC
Guzzle client

19. Define lists without code
Adapt any list with a few
clicks to your needs
Views
● Query
● Display
● Field
● Filter
○ Exposed
● Sort

20. Entities + Fields
Entity
Field types in core
Validation
Efficient data
modelling based on
requirements
Consistent data
validation

21. Theming / Design
Twig
● Better separation
● no PHP Code
● simpler syntax
● Logic ⇔ Theming
● more security
● easier for designers

22. Admin
All views based
New toolbar
UX Research
Accessibility
Efficient navigation
through extensible
toolbar.
Improved usability
across all UIs.

23. Integrierte Frameworks
Leverage the best
frameworks available
Benefit from the
effort of worldwide
communities
Symfony 2: kernel, request
Twig Templates
HTTP Client
Composer
PHPUnit
CKEditor
jQuery / +UI, Backbone.js
HMTL 5 Sieve (IE), Modernizr
Picturefill
+ many more

24. Standards compliant
W3C HTML5
WAI-ARIA
HAL+JSON
RDF
OOP + PSR-0+4
SMACSS
REST
Compatible with
relevant top edge
standards
Adopts best practices
defined by global
communities

25. Contrib Module ready
● Mailsystem
● Monitoring
● Redirect
● Pathauto + Token
● TMGMT
● Behat
● ShareMessage
● Salsa API
● Redis
Huge momentum
High speed adoption
Simplification in code

26. ● Layout / Widget
● Media
● Search API + Facets
● CRM Core
More value than ever
available for free
Upcoming initiatives

27. Small projects
Starting september
Your requirements
are
● low complexity
● fast delivery
● minimalistic
You will get an...
+ modern
+ cheap
+ easily extensible
… exciting project

28. Grosse Projekte
Big projects
Big investments
Much development
Long running project
Golive in >3 months
Long lifetime
Do it agile
Think open source
Get rid off legacy

29. Drupal 7
When still use “the old one”

30. Complex medium size projects
Not yet there
in Drupal 8
● E-Commerce
● Media
Use Drupal 7 if you need a
● Shop
● Huge image collection
with metadata mgmt

31. Drupal 7 distributions
Kampatools
Open Atrium
● Complete products
● Huge functionality
● Out of the box
● Low cost
This is a...
different approach to custom development!

32. Thank you
Miro Dietiker, CTO