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Views in core!

• No longer have to bring it into every project
• A lot of D8 Core is built with views
• Our front page is now a view
• We now have a file manager powered by views
• Many of our admin screens such as the Content Screen are now views
• Have the use of basic bulk operations

Content Creation

• Improved "Left/Right" UI
• No longer have the comment fields and comment display tabs
• Addition of the form display tab

Display Modes

• View Modes
• Provides us with a way to display a sub set(s) of fields to the end user.
• Form Modes
• Provides us with a way to display a sub set(s) of fields to our content creators**

Comment Types

• Comments are now a field and managed seperate from our Content Types
• Customize the structure of our comments, have multiple variations of them and apply them to various entities or pieces of content.

Content Editing

• In-Line Editing
• Ability to edit some basic content such as page titles, text, and images without having to access the admin screen.
• WYSWYG
• CK Editor
• Tight integration with text formats
• Improved configuration
• Image upload capability

Major Block Upgrades

Block Layout

• Improved UI
• Fieldable Block Types
• Ability to have the same block in multiple regions
• New core system blocks
• Page titles, Site branding, Drupal messages, Breadcrumbs
• Block configuration is now exportable

Configuration Management

• Configuration is written to files for ease of export/import
• Our configuration is written as we build
• We have a new UI to manage the import/export of either our whole configuration or just a portion of it

Contact Forms

• Contact forms are fieldable
• Can now extend the default contact form
• Ability to have multiple contact forms

New Fields

• Date
• Telephone
• Link
• Email
• Entity Reference

And there is still more...

Yes, more

• Tour Module
• Multilingual Support
• Multiple image upload
• Removal of the "upload" button
• Advanced Content Filtering (ACF)

Some modules removed from core

• Blog
• PHP filter
• Poll
• Trigger

Some contrib modules we no longer need

• PLUpload
• Features
• Email, Phone, Date, Link, entity reference modules
• Module filter
• Views, views bulk operations, admin views
• Beans

Thank You

• Questions?