A number of remarkable features have been integrated with Drupal 8.8 latest release. The official release was in December 2019 and for users before the release of Drupal 9, it is a perfect move by the Drupal community. The release mostly included the features regarding the improvement of the management that will help the Drupal developer in meeting all the requirements of an enterprise website.

Let’s find out the prominent features of Drupal 8.8

1. WYSIWYG & Media Embedding Integration 
This is the much-awaited update in this next release of Drupal 8. For website developers, this WYSIWYG was a much-needed integration. The earlier media embedding was poorly handled and need some major transformation. With this version, it has become simpler for the content creators to build and integrate the media within the website. Another advantage is that this feature comes with complete media management features. 

2. Claro Theme
Claro is the perfect Drupal admin theme released with an advanced look and better user interface. On top of this, the theme will bring the advanced refreshed design to Drupal 8. This UI change was in demand by the Drupal community for a long time. However, with the latest release, these changes are finally available for Drupal development. The clean, concise and advanced look adds to the web accessibility feature.

3. JSON API Module
The Drupal 8.8.0 update resolved the below issues:

• For every resource, the include paths are fixed in the resource collection.
• The resource normalization is no more shared or leveraged.
• The ResourceType value objects are computed on every demand with a resourceTypeRepository.
• This change is remarkable to the growing ecosystem of the contributed modules and thus, the JSON: API can boost faster working by eliminating the necessity for an ad-hoc code.

4. Complete Composer Support
With the availability of the composer, Drupal development has become more streamlined with the PHP standards. The interaction between the Composer and PHP had started to become strong with the Drupal 8 release. Now, with the latest Drupal 8.8 more Composer plugins are released.
Drupal-composer-scaffold 
The new plugin will automate the Drupal composer scaffolding in the right place. In addition to that, this will offer multiple options for the setup approaches.
Drupal-vendor-hardening 
This plugin job is to remove some of the useless folders that are available in the vendor directories like tests. This is an important technique when the vendor folder is comprised of the doc root.
Drupal/recommended-project 
This composer template is used to build the Drupal project structure by following the suggestions presented in Drupal 8.8. These suggestions reveal that the vendor folder is out of the doc root.
Drupal/legacy-project 
This template is used to build a Drupal project that follows the old structure. But this is not suggested for the Drupal 8.8.0 and further.

5. On-Demand Browser Support
Websites can run properly with the latest browsers that are compatible with CSS and JavaScript. While a number of browsers are getting outdated with time. But with Drupal 8.8 release this browser policy has changed to a great extent. 
It supports most of the browsers for both desktop and mobile devices:

• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• Microsoft Edge
• Opera
• Safari
• Safari for iOS
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox ESR
• Chrome for iOS
• Samsung Internet
• Chrome for Android
• UC Browser
• Opera Mini

With numerous remarkable features in the latest release, this latest version has completely transformed the way enterprise websites are developed in a secure & engaging manner.  

Wrapping Up:
Drupal 8.8 update brings out a wide collection of quality features that will definitely make website development and content creation simpler. This release is an important update before the arrival of Drupal 9. If you own a website or looking to build a website it is the perfect time to integrate the services of this latest version. Drupal development company can be consulted to build an engaging as well as secure enterprise website. They have an expert team to build, customize and migrate a Drupal website.