Drupal 9 - What's coming up for site owners?

Drupal Roundtable June 2019
https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Drupal-Meetup/events/261736594/

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1. Drupal 9 Josef Dabernig, Senior Consultant
2. Agenda § What‘s happening in Drupal 8 § What‘s coming up for Drupal 9 § How you can get ready for Drupal 9
3. Drupal 8.7 Release: May 2019
4. Drupal 9 and beyond Drupal 8’s innovation model 8 . 7 . 3 (major.minor.patch) Every 6 months, with new features Every 2-3 weeks, no new features Every few years
5. Drupal 8 Reusable media Stable Images + video Stable Drag and drop Stable Media Library Experimental WYSIWYG integration In progress, targeted for 8.8 Media module in Drupal 8.7
6. Drupal 8 Layout Builder 1-off pages Templates and more! Workflows Accessible STABLE
7. Drupal 8 Coupled / traditional Decoupled Headless JSON:API extends Drupal’s leadership 
 in API-first
8. Drupal 8.8 Feature freeze: Oct14, 2019 Release: Dec4, 2019
9. Drupal Ecosystem Keep Drupal relevant
 and impactful Make Drupal easy to
 evaluate and adopt Make Drupal easy for content creators and site builders Reduce total cost of ownership 
 for developers and site owners Easy upgrade to Drupal 9 Automatic updates Extended security support Composer Configuration management Workflow Layout Media Administration UI Out of the box Migrate API-first / Decoupled / Headless Six-month feature releases
10. Drupal 8 Modern look + feel Better use of space Better accessibility Proposed
11. 8.8 Admin UI & JavaScript Modernisation § Admin theme refresh stable [needs volunteer coordinator] § React Component Library, implementing the new design system § Add editor role to Drupal core § Implement Autosave in Drupal core § Inline entity form widget for entity references in JS Admin UI
12. 8.8 API-First § Extend JSON API capabilities with schema information. § Full config entity support. § TBD: OAuth2? OpenAPI? GraphQL?
13. 8.8 Automatic Updates § Various foundational work to prepare for automatic updates
14. 8.8 Composer Support § Add composer build support to core § Prepare core and Drupal.org to handle semantic versioning for contrib extensions (modules, themes, etc) § Improve the quality of our exported components
15. 8.8 Configuration Management 2.0 § Environment specific config module stable/beta § Distribution/product management improvement allowing to select changes from upstream/distro updates, (akin to config_distro) possibly transformer api, and/or optional update hooks. Maybe 8.9 § Managing of optional unitsnts
16. 8.8 Documentation § Topic-based help system § One-pagers for configuration management and composer
17. 8.8 Layout § Support customization (overrides) of layouts for other view modes (e.g., teaser) § Block visibility § Integrate into Standard profile? § Mass reverting of overrides § Allow for “wrappers” (instead of infinitely nestable layouts
18. 8.8 Media § Make media library stable § UI improvements to allow deprecating File/Image, Thumbnails on videos/user pictures § WYSIWYG integration § Add External Media From Content Form § Migration support and upgrade path § Deprecate Drupal 6 migration sources in Drupal 8 and… § Metadata: Improve mapping UI and Complext type support § Webpack for media?
19. 8.8 Migrate § Stabilize Multilingual Migrations § Deprecate d6 migrations for 9.0 [needs issue] § Allow modules to declare their migration status in Migrate UI § Migrate support for deleting items no longer in source data § Improve Contrib Developer Experience § Continue stabilizing the migration path
20. 8.8 Out of the box § Improving installation experience § Reduce installation time § SimplyTest improvements § Remove warning messages § Language Switcher improvement § Adding Tour content to many more pages
21. 8.8 Workflow § Convert path aliases to full featured entities § Introduce a basic version of Inline Entity Form in core and use it in entity forms with entity reference fields
22. Drupal 9 and beyond
23. Drupal 9 and beyond
24. Drupal 9 and beyond Drupal 8 Drupal 9 Drupal 7 Once you are on the Drupal 8 track, 
 you will never have to change tracks again Drupal 6 Drupal 9 station
25. Drupal 9 and beyond 9.0 Symfony 4/5 8.8 Symfony 3 8.6 Symfony 3 8.7 Symfony 3 Deprecated code New code Third-party dependencies
26. Drupal 9 and beyond Drupal 9 will ship in just over one year from today Targeted for June 2020 
 (Fallback is December 2020) %
27. Drupal 9 and beyond Latest Drupal 8
28. Drupal 9 Goals § Evolution instead of revolution § All features from 8.x will be available. Drupal 8.9.0 becomes Drupal 9.0.0 § Clean-up our own code base § All deprecated code or functionality from Drupal 8 will be removed § Update third party dependencies § Drupal 9 will be based on Symfony 4/5. Similarly: CKEditor, jQuery, Twig
29. Getting Ready for Drupal 9
30. The closer you are to 8.x the closer you are to 9.x
31. Drupal 9 Goals § Evolution instead of revolution § All features from 8.x will be available. Drupal 8.9.0 becomes Drupal 9.0.0 § Clean-up our own code base § All deprecated code or functionality from Drupal 8 will be removed § Update third party dependencies § Drupal 9 will be based on Symfony 4/5. Similarly: CKEditor, jQuery, Twig Use Upgrade Status module (Drupal 7 version) to estimate upgradability. Contrib Use Drupal Module Upgrader to get a head start on updating your custom code. Custom Use the core Migrate module suite with contrib extensions as needed. Content
32. Drupal 9 Goals § Evolution instead of revolution § All features from 8.x will be available. Drupal 8.9.0 becomes Drupal 9.0.0 § Clean-up our own code base § All deprecated code or functionality from Drupal 8 will be removed § Update third party dependencies § Drupal 9 will be based on Symfony 4/5. Similarly: CKEditor, jQuery, Twig None 1 to 5 6 or more Drupal 9 compatibility issues found in 7000+ modules in March 2019
33. Upgrade Status module 7.x Availability information on Drupal 8 8.x Readyness for Drupal 9
34. Drupal 9 Readyness § Start planning ahead today § Drupal 9 is just a year away
35. Thank you.
36. Resources § https://www.drupal.org/docs/9 § http://bit.ly/state-of-drupal-9 § https://dri.es/state-of-drupal-presentation-april-2019 § https://www.drupal.org/core/roadmap
37. SENIOR CONSULTANT josef.dabernig@unic.com twitter.com/dasjo Josef Dabernig