Facts

Drupal core ships Block and Layout Builder modules.

• Block module is in business of placing blocks.
• Layout Builder module is in business of placing blocks.

But...

Block placements are decentralized: Each block placement is a config entity. Several modules can work together to place blocks on the same page. In other words, a module providing a block placement, doesn't know if a different module is also providing a placement on the same page or even on the same region.

First Drupal 8, the Release Candidate 1, is out after a fantastic work of more than 3,200 core contributors. Although we are a small company, we are proud to have contributed to this effort.

Drupal 8 has revamped its user interface; added WYSIWYG and in-place editing; significantly improved mobile support; added and improved key contributed modules including Views, Date, and Entity Reference; introduced a new object-oriented backend leveraging Symfony components; revamped configuration management; improved multilingual support; and added hundreds of other improvements. The fastest Drupal ever is here.

Read the official announcement of the Drupal 8 RC1 release.

Again, I'm packing for Drupalcon. This year the most important European Drupal event will take place in the unique city of Barcelona. This year's conference will be marked by the long-awaited release of Drupal 8 and it's expected that the launch of Drupal 8 Release Candidate to occur right during the Drupalcon, in Barcelona. I'm a contributor to Drupal 8 and I'm very excited about the huge transformations that this release will bring to users, business and developers.

As the date for Drupal 8 stable release is approaching, we’re excited to announce that Webikon has extended its training modules to include also Drupal 8 along with the existing Drupal 7.

Starting with the „8” release, Drupal has adopted the modern PHP concepts and standards, object-oriented programming, and the Symfony framework. While a lot of the Drupal concepts (Fields, Views, Entities, Nodes) continue to exist in Drupal 8, they are now implemented using object-oriented programming design patterns.