Drupal 8.5.0, the next planned minor release of Drupal 8, is scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Minor releases include new features, usability improvements, and backwards-compatible API improvements.
The objective of the JavaScript Framework Initiative is to modernize Drupal core's JavaScript, to make Drupal core backend improvements that enable us to build UIs with JavaScript, and to explore where Drupal can benefit from using a JavaScript fr
After consultation with the various initiative teams + core committers, we have created a DRAFT of proposed product goals for Drupal 8.5 (feature freeze: January 29, 2018) and Drupal 8.6+ (date TBD; ~late summer 2018).
In order to respond to both site builder and developer feedback about core experimental modules in Drupal 8, the committer team is proposing the following changes starting with