We’ve come a long way since the community started building Drupal 8 in 2011 and today we’re thrilled to say that we have an official release date!

On Drupal.org, the Drupal 8 Core maintainers wrote, "Based on our experience with our successful release candidates, we are confident to announce that Drupal 8.0.0 will be released on November 19, 2015!” Congratulations to the Core team and to everyone who worked hard to make Drupal 8 a reality.

If you want to get involved in making the Drupal 8 release an amazing experience for everyone around the world, there are numerous different ways to contribute. Just a few include:

• Plan a party
• Help translate the press release
• Write a case study
• Send a tweet
• Check out the Drupal 8 calendar for updates and reminders

Many thanks to all of the amazing community members who have worked tirelessly to make Drupal 8 a reality. Whether you're one of the thousands of contributors who submitted code, a multilingual genius working on translation, or one of the many companies and individuals who made financial contributions to the Drupal 8 Accelerate fundraiser, we wanted to say: THANK YOU! We couldn't have done this without you!