Drupal 8.6 Update: Latest Version, Fixes and New Features

It’s here, the highly anticipated update of Drupal 8.6! It is now clear why the Drupal community is eagerly waiting for this latest update which promises to focus on enhancing user experience.

You can drive traffic from social media using Drupal web service. Drupal release update only twice a year. So, beyond regular bug fix and minor changes, we decided to highlight new features and capabilities included in the latest version 8.6.

Let's dive in and find what new features and improvements are stored in Drupal 8.6.

New Media library

The media management has now become a core feature of Drupal 8.6. This update plays a huge role in terms of content creation and content marketing by enhancing user experience and introducing media library.

The new highlighted feature of Drupal 8.6 is the new media library. Now user can get a customizable media library and content editor. Upgrading your already powerful CMS to the latest version will allow you as a content creator to easily modify, publish and manage your content.

For example, with custom Drupal development, your regular task of re-uploading existing image is a thing of the past. Now with Drupal 8.6, you can save it to a new media library.

Experimental Workspaces

With the stable workflow model in last year’s update, implementing multiple content changes at the same time has been one of the most requested improvement requirement by developers.

And in 2018, developers wish became true. A simple yet experimental workspaces module allows defining workspace, add multiple content items between them in a smooth manner.

Keep in mind that this module is still evolving but at this stage, it will prove to be the major upgrade.

Layout Features

Drupal’s layout feature is the main highlight of this update. However, the two main modules are still under development stage: Layout Builder and Field Layout.

With this latest update, you can drag and drop interface for creating layouts which can apply both to a particular page or overall website. The user can now have all the freedom and flexibility to create a unique layout for unique content formats.

Easy to migrate

According to the official announcement by Drupal team, migration your website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 has never been easier thanks to all the stable migration modules.

Although this is way too late as Drupal 8 launched almost three years back and only now do we have a stable module for migration.

A complete guide of up-to-date status and list of the initiatives is available online. There are lots of new features planned for the next update including JSON API, it seems right to guess that this rapid adoption of Drupal 8 will significantly grow.

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Harshal Shah has an countless experience as being a CEO of Elsner Technologies Pvt Ltd.: PHP development company that offers various PHP Development services to the clients across the globe. Mr. Harshal is an huge tech enthusiastic person who has written major & genuine articles as well as blogs on mostly topics relevant to various CMS platforms. This can guide the readers to acknowledge new practises about web development and also they can learn new ideas to build & optimize a website online using multiple web development tools & techniques.

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