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title: "Drupal 8 Release"
description: "Drupal 8 Has Arrived! The wait is over! After a long and tedious process, Drupal 8 is finally completed. The folks in the Drupal community have worked long and hard to bring you the biggest, bestest..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/drupal/drupal-8-release/
date: 2015-11-19
modified: 2023-10-12
author: "Scott Mitchell"
categories: ["Drupal"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Drupal 8 Release

## Drupal 8 Has Arrived!

The wait is over! After a long and tedious process, Drupal 8 is finally completed. The folks in the Drupal community have worked long and hard to bring you the biggest, bestest Drupal ever. With **hundreds** of improvements and new features, you can get started by upgrading your site today! Get more information on [Drupal 8 here](https://www.drupal.org/8)!

Straight from the [Drupal 8 release updates](https://www.drupal.org/news/drupal-8.0.0-released) page, here is a list of features Drupal 8 brings to you.

- In-context, what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editing and previews
- Comprehensive content modeling out of the box with entities, fields, and views
- Customization of content pages and even forms and administrative pages via the administrative interface
- Full translatability and localization out of the box
- Reliable configuration management for safe and straightforward deployment of changes between environments
- Mobile-first, responsive, HTML5 output
- REST-first native web services
- Enhanced accessibility and WAI-ARIA compliance
- Modern PHP standards and practices, with integration of popular libraries such as Composer, Symfony2, Guzzle, and Twig
- Significantly improved front-end performance out of the box
- Enhanced caching and best-of-class integration with CDNs and reverse proxies
- Full compatibility with PHP7, and the PostgreSQL and SQLite databases
- …And much more!