PHP 8.0.0 Released

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.0.0. This release marks the latest major release of the PHP language.

PHP 8.0 comes with many improvements and new features such as:

Union Types
Named Arguments
Match Expression
Attributes
Constructor Property Promotion
Nullsafe Operator
WeakMap
Just In Time Compilation
And much more...

Take a look at the PHP 8.0 Announcement Addendum for more information.

For PHP 8.0.0 source downloads please visit the downloads page; Windows sources and binaries can be found at windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The migration guide is available in the PHP Manual. Please consult it for a detailed list of new features and backward-incompatible changes.

Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!