The New Drupal 8 is Coming Out Later This Year
Every major release of Drupal brings new features, and improvements. Drupal 8 will be no different. According to developers, Drupal 8 will be the most significant update in Drupal history. The improvements will include new usability tools to manage layouts and views, a great deal more mobile support, new templates, enhancements to the language translator and a really improved CMS that aims to support a robust out-of-the-box configuration system. Once this is rolled out and all bugs are fixed, we believe this will be a wonderful improvement to the Drupal platform.
The newest version of Drupal is scheduled to be released in August, but will not be extensively tested prior to the release. When Drupal 8 is released it will take time for developers to work through the bugs and to create new themes and modules for users. Its release will also signal the end of Drupal 6 support (learn more), including security and technical features. It will take several months to fix the bugs in the new release and for developers to release new modules, and themes.
However, Drupal 7 is already in a mature phase. It has been tested, and its bugs have been corrected. It also has thousands of new modules, and improvements that will add additional functionality to your website.
We believe that Drupal 8 will be an incredible upgrade. Updating a Drupal platform can be a bigger endeavor than most non-developers understand. This upgrade will essentially be a rebuild of your website. You need to start planning and budgeting for this upgrade now. Don’t let that scare you too much. This upgrade will take some planning but it can provide your business website with a modern facelift, offer you new and improved functionality and site management options that were not available before.
Do not wait too much longer to plan for this. Discuss your options with a professional developer and start to budget and plan for your updates now.