Drupal 8.8.0 is now available. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) platform, is mainly used to construct a variety of features and services to provide dynamic website, these features include user management (UserAdministration), publication workflow (Publishing Workflow), discussions, news aggregator (NewsAggregation ), metadata (metadata) operations and XML publishing for content sharing.
As a normal Drupal last feature release 8, Drupal 8.8.0 includes stability improvements to the library and some work areas and migration. At the same time, new experimental Claro management theme also makes site management a new look. Moreover, 8.8.0 is the first version of this machine Composer supports.
This version of some of the updates as follows:
Stable media library
- Media Library module allows easy reuse of images, documents, video and other assets across the entire site. It is integrated into the form and content seamlessly adapted CKEditor. Users can upload media directly from the library, you can even re-use existing combination uploaded media and the media. Library was previously included as a Beta test module in Drupal core.
The new experiment management topics
- Claro management topics have been added to Drupal core, and has a beta test stability . The new theme and clean, easy to use and powerful. Management page easier to touch, and the combination of colors and contrast more accessible.
A significant improvement over the work area
- This version now can define workspace stratification. At the same time, the work area can be used with "content review", and can also change the path alias in stages.
Including support for Native Composer
- Drupal 8.8.0 is the first to include native support for the Composer version, without the need to rely on third parties to set up the project with its dependencies Drupal. You can create a new site using one-line command .
Improved migration
- Multi-language migration path is still in the experimental stage, but have been various updates. This includes setting word language, terminology and language information localization process. Modules can now specify whether they provide complete migration to help review the integrity of the available migration.
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It is worth mentioning that, Drupal 8.8 Drupal is the last minor release 8, includes important new features prior to 9.0.0 or not recommended. The next (and last) minor version 8.9 program is a long-term support version, it will contain the same all changes with Drupal 9.0. Compared with 8.8.0, it does not contain significant new features, although the existing experimental module may become stable, and can still add some small API and UX improvements.
Drupal 8.9.0 release date is planned in 2020 on June 3, and Drupal 9.0.0 target release date is the same day.