Drupal 8 updates were discussed including over 15,000 new Drupal 8 sites being launched each month. Drupal 8 has become the de facto release with most contributed modules now being ready. The committer team for Drupal 8 has also been growing to include more contributors. New features in Drupal 8.3 were highlighted including improvements for site builders, content authors, and end users. The presentation discussed Drupal continuing to move beyond the traditional page and having options open for traditional, headless, and conversational interfaces.

1. #DRIESNOTE
DrupalCon Baltimore

2. BEFORE I BEGIN

3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Drupal 8 updates
II. New & Improved in Drupal 8.3
III. Q&A

4. I . D R U P A L 8
U P D AT E S

5. AL JAZEERA
JURASSIC WORLD
NBA NASDAQ BURDA
WWF YMCA
HABITAT JACK DANIEL’S
15,000 Drupal 8 sites launched each month

6. YMCA
Ambitious digital experiences

7. AMBITIOUS
DIGITAL EXPERIENCES

8. Drupal 8 has become
the de facto release

10. In final
testing
(rc)
Obsolete
Stable
Release In Core
Under
Development
(dev/alpha/beta)
Drupal 8 readiness of Top 50 Drupal 7 contributed modules
More & more
contributed modules are ready

11. 1 million Drupal 7 sites need to be migrated

12. 6-month
releases are
working well

13. 6-month
releases are
working well
8.1 8.3
Minor releases
8.2

14. Making major
Drupal upgrades
easier forever
8 9
Major releases

15. 8.4
Deprecated
New subsystem

16. 8.4
Deprecated
New subsystem

17. 8.58.4
Deprecated
New subsystem

18. 8.58.4
Module
Deprecated
New subsystem

19. 9
etc…
8.x8.58.4
Deprecated
New subsystem

20. 9
Drupal 8 Module x
9
Drupal 8 Module

22. #🌈🌈…major 🔑

23. We’re adding more committers
effulgentsia webchick catch xjm alexpott cottser
cilefen lauriii Gábor Hojtsy yoroy
We’ve been growing the
Drupal 8 committer team…
WHY?

24. effulgentsiawebchickcatch xjmalexpott Cottser
1. New features
2. More users
3. Mature release process
4. Committers taking leave

26. effulgentsiawebchickcatch xjmalexpott Cottser

27. effulgentsiawebchickcatch xjmalexpott Cottser
cilefen lauriii Gábor Hojtsy yoroy
NEW NEW NEW NEW

28. Committer team added
across Drupal 8's history
effulgentsiawebchickcatch
2013
xjmalexpott
Cottser
2016 2017
cilefen lauriii Gábor Hojtsy yoroy
2011 2012 2015

29. Chris
McCafferty
Core Mentoring
coordinator
4 core
releases
Lauri
Eskola
Drupal 8 Theme
API maintainer
Drupal Top 30
contributor
< >
Aaron Winborn
Award Winner
Drupal 6
Maintainer
Gábor
Hojtsy
UX
maintainer
Drupal 7 Top
30 contributor
UX
Roy
Scholten
cilefen lauriii Gábor Hojtsy yoroy

30. His 1st core
commit was
10 years ago!
Gábor Hojtsy

31. Chris
McCafferty
Core Mentoring
coordinator
4 core
releases
Lauri
Eskola
Drupal 8 Theme
API maintainer
Drupal Top 30
contributor
< >
Aaron Winborn
Award Winner
Drupal 6
Maintainer
Gábor
Hojtsy
UX
maintainer
Drupal 7 Top
30 contributor
UX
Roy
Scholten
cilefen lauriii Gábor Hojtsy yoroy

32. SPOTLIGHTS
Keith
Cristina
Sean
Mateu
Daniel
Preston

33. kjay
S P O T L I G H T
Keith Jay
Better Out-of-the-Box experience

34. Keith J. Video

35. ckrina
S P O T L I G H T
Cristina Chumillas
New admin status page in Drupal 8.3

36. Cristina Video

37. seanB
S P O T L I G H T
Sean Blommaert
Working on Media initiative

38. Sean B. Video

39. dmsmidt
S P O T L I G H T
Daniël Smidt
Inline Form Errors in Drupal 8.3

40. Daniel Video

41. e0ipso
S P O T L I G H T
Mateu Aguiló Bosch
RESTful in Drupal 7 & JSON API in
Drupal 8; creates video documentation

42. Mateu Video

45. I I . NEW & IMPROVED
IN DRUPAL 8.3

46. FEATURING THE LOUVRE

48. DON’T USE IN PRODUCTION
ADVISORY
EXPERIMENTAL MODULE

49. Site Builder
Improvements
Jamie

52. Content Author
Improvements
Henri

54. End User
Improvements
Dries

56. Drupal continues to move
BEYOND THE PAGE

58. API-FIRST, NOT API-ONLY
We have our options open
TRADITIONAL
(COUPLED)
HEADLESS
(DECOUPLED)

59. prestonso
S P O T L I G H T
Preston So
API-first, Drupal Evangelist

60. Preston Video

61. New user experience &
distribution platforms like
CONVERSATIONAL
USER INTERFACES
only come along every 10 years

62. CKEditor 4 Stable
BigPipe Stable
Drag & drop image upload Stable
Workflows & Content Moderation Experimental
Field Layout Experimental
Datetime Range Experimental
Inline Form Errors Experimental
Chatbot (API-first demo) 3rd party (GitHub)
Summary of demoed features

63. Q&A