New Features in Drupal 8

#1. New Fields

There are five completely new field types in the Drupal 8 core:

• Date
• Email
• Link
• Reference
• Telephone

There have also been some smaller changes too:

• The English used for field names is more straightforward. For example, "Integer" is now simply "Number".
• Comments is now available as a field, rather than a setting.

#2. Fields are everywhere

Not only are there new fields, but you can now add fields in many more places.

You can add fields to nodes, blocks, comments, contact forms, taxonomy terms and users.

#3. CKEditor

Previous versions of Drupal did not provide a text editor.

Drupal 8 ships with CKEditor, one of the very best text editors on the market.

#4. Quick Edit

Thanks to the "Quick Edit" module, if you're logged into Drupal and looking at content, you'll be able to edit text directly from the front-end of your site.

#5. Responsive Images

Drupal 8 allows you to choose different styles for individual images. The various styles will be used for different device sizes.

#6. Views

 Views is now in the Drupal 8 core. Not only is it available by default, but most of the Drupal administration screens now use Views, which makes them easy to customize.

#7. Multilingual

The process is much smoother in Drupal 8, with 4 key modules in the core.

Once those modules are enabled, you can almost immediately start translating your site.

#8. Configuration Manager

The new Configuration Manager module in Drupal 8 makes it much easier to export and import the features that you build.

For example, if you create a new content type, you can export it from your test site and easily import it into a live site.

#9. Webservices

Enable the four Web Services modules, go to Views, and you'll immediately be able to create a REST export.