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Drupal 8 beta has arrived! 

Drupal 8 beta is the latest, greatest release of the world's most widely used enterprise web CMS. It's fast. Flexible and gives you a more agile, powerful foundation to create and manage great digital experiences across web, mobile, social and commerce.

Drupal 8 offers a marked improvement over Drupal 7 from a features perspective, with over 200 new features being added to the open source CMS. Among the new features are performance improvements for dynamic content and a focus on responsive layouts that places an emphasis on mobile delivery.

In great summary news will cover the following aspects:

• Setup – New installation interface with more than 100 languages available
• Content authoring – improved and simplified content publishing interface, built-in WYSIWYG editor, file upload and drag 'n drop images, sped up the corrective action in express mode content, hotfixes available even when you are on mobile devices;
• Multilanguage Native – interface translation management, automatic updates of translation, automatic search of available translations, express programming of translated blocks, 
• Web services – web application and simplified app interacting with Drupal, any content and any view can be exported to XML or Json
• View in-core - view module integrated in the core of Drupal 8, homepage and user management are native views
• Configuration management – the configuration is now divided into files, so that it will be possibile to act on every single value without affecting the database
• Fully mobile –  100% responsive, with automatic layout preview on all major mobile devices

In order to facilitate new learning by all, Acquia produced and made available as a free download an ebook that enumerates the major changes in Drupal 8 for end users, for site builders, for designers and front-end developers, and for back-end developers.