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ยก Drupal 8 PHPSW - April 2015 By / Oliver Davies @opdavies

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Who? Drupal Developer and Linux Systems Administrator Work for Core contributor and contrib maintainer Drupal Bristol, SWDUG, DrupalCamp Bristol Drupal Association

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What is Drupal? Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization. https://www.drupal.org/about

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Where are we now?

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Drupal 6 Released in February 2008 1 year of development Supported for 3 months after Drupal 8 release

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Drupal 7 Released in January 2011 ~3 years of development Supported until Drupal 9 release

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Drupal 8 In active development Beta 1 released October 2014 55 51 critical issues remaining Hopefully released in 2015 (Q3?)

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Some cool things about D8

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Culture Change " " Not invented here -> Proudly found elsewhere Getting off the island

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For Site Builders in core Revamped node forms WYSIWYG (CKEditor) in core Inline editing (quickedit) More fields! Entity reference Telephone Email Date Link More accessibility improvements Multilingual Configuration management Views module

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For Developers Leveraging of Symfony components Higher PHP requirement PHPUnit Rest API in core Less assumptions made Simpler, more re-usable code

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For Themers Twig Modernizr in core Newer jQuery (2.1.3) HTML5 SMACSS Responsive everything No more IE8 support

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Other Good Stuff Introduction of semantic versioning Cross-community contribution Widens the Drupal talent pool

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When? It will be ready when it's ready, but it will be worth the wait!

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Questions? http://opdavies.github.io/phpsw-drupal8 https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0