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Media Entity is now in core

This module has moved to Drupal 8 core! Starting with Drupal 8.4 there is a Media module in Drupal core, which includes the base API from Media Entity, as well as most of the functionality provided by Media Entity Image and Media Entity Document.
The base API was added to 8.4.x so that contrib maintainers and module developers can start porting their modules to the new API. In future releases (8.5.x, etc), more features and UX improvements will be added and the module will then be considered ready for general usage.

You can follow the full roadmap and related issues here.

If you are using the media_entity module, follow the upgrade instruction to upgrade your website to media in Drupal core.

> UPGRADE INSTRUCTION FROM MEDIA ENTITY CONTRIB TO MEDIA IN CORE

Compatibility restrictions

If your site currently uses Media Entity, in order to move to the Drupal core Media solution in the future, you will need to upgrade to Media Entity 8.x-2.x, following the above mentioned upgrade path.

Note that in order to start using the Drupal core's Media module, all provider modules defining media source plugins will need to be upgraded as well. There is an issue that keeps track of the upgrade status of the most common contributed modules.

If you need to upgrade Drupal core to 8.4.x but you can't yet upgrade Media Entity 8.x-2.x due to some contrib modules not having 2.x branches, you still can use Media Entity 8.x-1.x with Drupal 8.4.x, as long as the core Media module is not enabled. If you can, consider helping with the upgrade of contrib modules. Media Entity 8.x-1.x will become unsupported at some point in the future (as more sites move over to the core Media module).

There's also more information about this transition phase in the FAQ handbook page.

Media provider modules

There are already several media provider modules that extend functionality of
Media entity:

Other modules that integrate with media entity

Media entity 8.x-1.0-beta2 to 8.x-1.0 update instructions

We started depending on the Entity API module. In order for update to go smoothly please make sure that the Entity API >= 8.x-1.0-alpha3 is installed before updating Media entity.

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Sponsors

Initial development of Media entity and media provider plugins was partly sponsored by Examiner.com, part of Outbox AXS.

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Project information

  • caution Minimally maintained
    Maintainers monitor issues, but fast responses are not guaranteed.
  • caution Obsolete
    Use of this project is deprecated.
  • Module categories: Media
  • chart icon1,971 sites report using this module
  • Created by slashrsm on , updated
  • shieldStable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
    There are currently no supported stable releases.

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