By damiankloip on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.x
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/2067017
Description: 

The DRUPAL_CORE_COMPATIBILITY and VERSION constants previously defined in bootstrap.inc have been converted to class constants on the Drupal class.

Drupal 7:

$release = VERSION;
$core = DRUPAL_CORE_COMPATIBILITY;

Drupal 8:

// When not in a namespace
$release = Drupal::VERSION;
$core = Drupal::CORE_COMPATIBILITY

// When in a namespace
$release = \Drupal::VERSION;
$core = \Drupal::CORE_COMPATIBILITY
Impacts: 
Module developers