Summary

We have reviewed the upcoming Drupal 8 release and the changes it is introducing. Many of those changes are architecture and software design related changes such as configuration management, core framework refactoring, better layout, and general mobile-ready with built-in support for HTML5.

As we’ve noted previously, it will take some time for Drupal 8 to be adopted by developers and site builders. While the media initiative group (https://groups.drupal.org/media/media-initiative) has been working hard on providing better media support for Drupal, as we’ve seen with the Media module throughout this book, there are currently no products to work with for Drupal 8, nor is there any built-in support for proper media handling as we covered in this book. Moreover, there are currently no media management related modules on Drupal’s modules ecosystem (to be exact there are only six modules in the media category and none of them is of relation to the topics in our book).