Install

To start a new Drupal project with version 8.2.0-beta3@beta:

To update your site and all dependencies to the latest version of Drupal:

To update your site to this specific release:
Pinning to a specific release may make it more challenging to update your site in future, see composer documentation for managing pinned versions

Using Composer to manage Drupal site dependencies

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Release notes

This is a beta release for the next feature release of Drupal 8. Betas are good testing targets for developers and site builders who are comfortable reporting (and where possible, fixing) their own bugs. Beta releases are not recommended for non-technical users, nor for production websites. More information on beta releases.

This minor release provides new improvements and functionality without breaking backward compatibility (BC) for public APIs. Note that there may be changes in internal APIs and experimental modules that require updates to contributed and custom modules and themes per Drupal core's backwards compatibility and experimental module policies. Both policies have been updated for the 8.1.x release.

For a full list of the API and feature additions included in the 8.2.0 beta, see the 8.2.0-beta1 release notes and the 8.2.0-beta2 release notes.

This release includes a new experimental feature in addition to those in 8.2.0-beta1 and beta2:

Datetime Range (alpha stability)
The experimental DateTime Range module provides a new field type that allows end dates. This is important for contributed modules like the Calendar module to work with Drupal 8 core. There are some small presentational, usability, accessibility, and translatability issues with the field, and its API may be refactored somewhat as we improve both it and the stable DateTime module. However, the data model for the field has consensus, so contrib and site authors can begin working with the module so long as they are willing to manage the risks of using an alpha experimental module. You can read the DateTime Range module plan for the next steps to make this useful field a part of the Standard installation.

The other following important issues have been resolved since 8.2.0-beta2 (in addition to the numerous fixes listed at the end of this post).

Known issues

The following issues may affect people running Drupal 8.2.0-beta1 on specific hosting environments:

All changes since 8.2.0-beta2

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Created by: xjm
Created on: 26 Aug 2016 at 14:40 UTC
Last updated: 12 Mar 2018 at 21:24 UTC
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