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+title: 'Drupal 8.5.0 Released'
+date: 2018-03-09
+excerpt: This week, the latest version of Drupal 8 was released.
+tags:
+    - drupal
+    - drupal-core
+---
+
+This week the latest minor version of Drupal 8, 8.5.0, was released.
+
+> This new version makes Media module available for all, improves migrations
+> significantly, stabilizes the Content Moderation and Settings Tray modules,
+> serves dynamic pages faster with BigPipe enabled by default, and introduces a
+> new experimental entity layout user interface. The release includes several
+> very important fixes for workflows of content translations and supports
+> running on PHP 7.2.
+
+I’ve been very impressed by the new release cycle Drupal 8 and the usage of
+semantic versioning. Though it adds a greater maintenance overhead for module,
+theme, installation profile and distribution developers to ensure that our
+projects are still working properly, having the ability to add new modules into
+Drupal core as well as new installation profiles like the [Unami demonstration
+profile][2] is pretty cool!
+
+For example, in addition to Unami, 8.5 alone adds media in core, two
+experimental modules have been marked as stable, an experimental new layout
+builder has been added and lots of PHP 7.2 improvements have been committed to
+make 8.5 fully PHP 7.2 compatible.
+
+I’m already looking forward to see what’s coming in 8.6 later this year!
+
+For more information on the 8.5 release, see the [blog post on Drupal.org][1].
+
+[0]: https://dri.es/drupal-8-5-0-released
+[1]: https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-8-5-0
+[2]:
+  https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/umami-drupal-8-demonstration-installation-profile