Install
To start a new Drupal project with version 8.0.0-beta9@beta:To update your site and all dependencies to the latest version of Drupal:
To update your site to this specific release:
Using Composer to manage Drupal site dependencies
Downloads
Release notes
Note that we did not make a release out of Drupal 8.0.0-beta8 and later on we needed to remove the 8.0.0-beta8 tag from our git repository due to infrastructure reasons. If you are looking for Drupal 8.0.0-beta8, the commit hash for the tag was fd3a981af7a5258fd5377ddccb57d25cbe5314c3.
Betas are good testing targets for developers and site builders who are comfortable reporting (and where possible, fixing) their own bugs, and who are prepared to rebuild their test sites from scratch when necessary. Beta releases are not recommended for non-technical users, nor for production websites. More information on beta releases.
An upgrade path will not be supported from this release to the next beta release, nor before all known upgrade path blockers are resolved.
However, see #2455949: [policy, no patch] Re-activate the head2head project and use it for beta2beta upgrades in the short-term which is discussing supporting beta to beta upgrade paths from a contributed module until it is supported in core.
Known issues
There are still over 50 critical issues with this beta release that need to be resolved before we will create a release candidate.
Search the issue queue for known issues
. If you are testing the beta, be aware that there are obvious site visitor and site builder-facing bugs, please consult the list below to see if they already have an issue open: Changes since 8.0.0-beta8: Changes since 8.0.0-beta7:Obvious user facing bugs