Upcoming updates

Each of the recipes covers a field type that was once part of the contributed project space. These projects provided more configuration options than those found in Drupal core at the time of writing this book. Over time, more and more features will be brought into Drupal core from their source projects.

For instance, the Datetime module is based on the contributed Date project. However, not all of the contributed project's features have made it to Drupal core. Each minor release of Drupal 8 sees more features moved to core. An example is the Datetime range module, which is an experimental module slated to be near stable for Drupal 8.4. This module adds support to start and end dates for Datetime fields. Documentation for the Datetime range module can be found at https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/core/modules/datetime-range.