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Drupal 8 Made Everything Better

From the beginning of Drupal 8, everything in the lifecycle just got better - including moving to Drupal 9 and beyond.

Design and research have not really changed, but once you begin to build, you start to see the changes. Drupal 8 and 9 are far more feature-complete, requiring far fewer contributed modules. With an elegant configuration management system built-in, it is straightforward to keep all settings in version control.

Beginning with Drupal 8, there is now a planned and continuous improvement release cycle for new versions of Drupal. This means that new features don’t have to wait for a full new major release: instead, they are incrementally included in new software releases every 6 months.

From a typical release page, they say “This minor release provides new improvements and functionality without breaking backward compatibility for public APIs”. Some examples of new functionality which have come online through this process include, media handling, content workflow, layout builder, to name but three.

As before, minor upgrades are straightforward, but the most significant change is that major upgrades no longer require a complete rebuild of your site. As only deprecated APIs are removed in each major upgrade, upgrades can now be completed in a fraction of the time. In fact, most are completed in a matter of days, and not months as before, and usually with only minimal effort on the part of the site owner.

A site redesign can also be performed at a time dictated by business needs, and does not need to be coordinated with a 3rd party release cycle. 

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About Drupal Sun

Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:

  • Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
  • Facet based on tags, author, or feed
  • Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
  • View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created

See the blog post at Evolving Web

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