What’s New in Drupal 10 - Features to Enhance your Drupal Site

Drupal is among the top open-source content management system (CMS) with a worldwide community of developers and users. The latest Drupal 10 is expected to release on 14 December 2022. This Drupal upgrade advanced third-party components such as Composer, PHP, CKEditor, and Symfony.To put it simply, Drupal 10 is a refined version of Drupal 9. 

 

With the new Drupal 10, users can expect new features that will speed up the Drupal website with a cleaner code and ease of access. Below are the top features of this Drupal upgrade: 

• Olivero has replaced Bartik as the default theme 
• Claro administration theme replaced by Seven theme 
• Improved Layout Builder and Media functionality 
• Automated updates and Project Browser features 
• Better site builder and decoupled developer experiences 
• Better authoring experience and more modern editing with the introduction of CKEditor5
• Modern JavaScript components to replace jQuery UI  
• Theme starter kit tools are new to Drupal 10 
• Improved security with PHP 8 and Symfony 6 
• Improved core code performance by moving module out of core 
• Code Cleanup - Deprecated code has been removed to streamline the codebase 

 

 

What are the Top Features of Drupal 10?

Drupal 10 enhances the features of Drupal 9, along with addition of new features to make website management more flexible, quick and cost effective.  

 

• New Editing Experiences with CKEditor 5 
  
  Drupal 10 has introduced CKEditor 5 which enhances the in-line media editing experience, drag and drop image upload, image alignment experience and autoformatting the content, all of which makes content management in Drupal much simpler and effective. 

 

 

• Automated Updates 
  
  


Drupal 10 upgrade has enhanced its security with automated updates. This  provides safe, secure automatic updates for Drupal sites and automatically detects database updates in an incoming update. It offers a robust API for error detection and hooking into every stage of the update process, which was missing in earlier Drupal versions. 

 

• Project Browser 
  
  
 
Project Browser provides the administrative interface which makes easy to find and install modules along with their configuration instructions without leaving the website. This enables new site builders to discover and install modules from within Drupal CMS. It would allow for instant, seamless discovery and experimentation. 

 

• Olivero Front-end Theme 
  
  
 
In the latest Drupal 10, Olivero theme has replaced the current core Bartik theme. Drupal websites will be more accessible, user-friendly, modern-looking, and aesthetically attractive from the beginning. This theme is the most accessible theme that Drupal has ever shipped in the history of Drupal releases. 

 

• Claro Administration Theme 
  
  

In Drupal 10, the Claro theme is replacing core Seven theme. It’s clean, accessible and powerful administration theme in Drupal Core. Claro is the default administration theme of the Standard profile. It features new color scheme, higher contrasts, touchscreen compatibility, redesigned content pages, image upload files and widgets. 

 

• Starterkit Theme Generator 
  
  

In Drupal 10, developers will be allowed to create a starting point for their theme unlike the older versions. Instead of inheriting the markup and CSS from a base theme, the Starterkit theme generator copies the defaults into a new theme. Tooling is provided as part of the included Drupal command line interface for automating this. As a result of this change, front-end developers can expect more frequent updates to the default markup and CSS shipped as part of Drupal core. 

 

• Symfony 6.2 & PHP 8.1 
  
  
 
Upgrade from Symfony 4 to Symfony 6.2 and PHP 8.1 makes Drupal stable and sustainable, provides unlimited flexibility and easy to expand in future. 

 

• Removed Deprecated Code 
  
  In Drupal 10, the community has removed the deprecated code  to streamline the codebase, making Drupal development more consistent and modular. 

 

• Making Core Smaller 
  
  Drupal community identified few unused modules like Aggregator, HAL, Quickedit, Color, RDF.. etc modules from core to contributed space and has madethe core smaller to improve performance and providing scope for innovation. 

 

What are the Benefits of Drupal 10?

We are living in an age where customers want near-real personalization as a lightning speed. If they don’t get it, they engage with brands that offer them superior CX. So, Drupal 10 attempts to fix the issues faced by developers, content managers in the previous versions, to streamline operations and build better user experience, all in a secure setting. Below are the benefits of upgrading to Drupal 10:

 

• Better administration experiences for content managers and site administrators 
• Improved performance by moving unused / rarely used modules out of Drupal core and making core smaller 
• Improved development experience for developers by cleaning up deprecated code to streamline the codebase 
• Enhanced administrative interface for finding and installing contributed modules without leaving your website 
• Safe, secure automatic updates for websites without dependence on  development team to apply the module / theme updates 

 

How to Get Drupal 10?

Drupal 10 release is in a few days’ time. It is an embodiment of improvements and new features to keep your Drupal implementation worth the investment with up-to-date and the most secure libraries and components. 

Wondering what the Drupal upgrade will look like? It will be as seamless as your previous MarTech upgrade, given you have the right technology partner. 

We have in-house Drupal experts, seasoned to work with Global businesses. Our Drupal services range from implementation to managed services, all personalized as per our client’s unique business requirements.

Write to us at marketing@altudo.co and we will arrange a no-obligation session with our Drupal experts.