Introduction to Drupal 8

If you are familiar with Drupal’s release lifecycle, then you should know that there are always two versions. The officially released and stable version, in our case this is Drupal 7, which is kept up to date with any bugs or security patches required so it is fully supported. Once Drupal 7 was officially released, developers were able to start focusing their efforts on implementing their next version of a brand new and shining Drupal.

This upcoming version of Drupal 8 is as revolutionary as any of the earlier major releases.

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If you would like to get your copy of the latest version of Drupal 8 then you’d need to set up git (http://git-scm.com), the distributed version control system, and get a copy of the Drupal repository. From command line, you can simply run git clone http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git, which will create a drupal/ directory in the current directory tree. As it is with git, you’d be getting the entire repository with all branches that were...