CKEditor

Previous versions of Drupal did not provide a text editor. Drupal 8 ships with CKEditor, one of the very best text editors on the market.

Responsive Images

Drupal 7 provided image styles in the core, which allowed you to automatically resize images. Drupal 8 takes that a step further and allows you to choose different styles for individual images. The various styles can be used for different device sizes.

Tour

Drupal's explanatory text was always hidden away under the "Help" link. Now, thanks to the Tour module, you can click the "Tour" link and see pop-ups that explain how Drupal works.

Views

The popular and useful Views module is now in the Drupal 8 core. Not only is it available by default, but most of the Drupal administration screens now use Views, which makes them easy to customise.

Configuration Manager

The new Configuration Manager module in Drupal 8 makes it much easier to export and import the features that you build. For example, if you create a new content type, you can export it from your test site and easily import it into a live site.

Webservices

As with multi-lingual sites, it used to require several contributed modules to create a webservice in Drupal 7. Now, in Drupal 8, everything you need is in the core.