Over the last few months, we've been covering the Drupal community's progress towards releasing Drupal 8.

Now that the first major deadline is only a week away, it's time to provide another update.

What's the state of Drupal 8?

Decemeber 1st is the feature freeze. What does that mean in practice? According to Dries, "No new features are allowed (unless specifically exempted), focus turns instead to API and UI clean-ups and polishing of existing features."