1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 3 <title>PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 5 available for testing</title> 4 <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2020.php#2020-11-19-1</id> 5 <published>2020-11-19T10:48:46+00:00</published> 6 <updated>2020-11-19T10:48:46+00:00</updated> 7 <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#id2020-11-19-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> 8 <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2020.php#2020-11-19-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> 9 <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> 10 <content type="xhtml"> 11 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 12 <p> 13 The PHP team is pleased to announce the eleventh testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 5. 14 </p> 15 16 <p> 17 This is an extra unplanned release, but we're not planning to adjust the GA date, 18 however, this may change during the course of the RC cycle. 19 The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the 20 <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80">PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0</a>. 21 </p> 22 23 <p>For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 5 please visit the <a href="https://downloads.php.net/~carusogabriel">download page</a>.</p> 24 25 <p>Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the <a href="http://bugs.php.net">bug reporting system</a>.</p> 26 27 <p><b>Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.</b></p> 28 29 <p> 30 For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the 31 <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.0.0RC5/NEWS">NEWS</a> file, 32 or the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.0.0RC5/UPGRADING">UPGRADING</a> 33 file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. 34 </p> 35 36 <p>The next release will be the General Availability, planned for Nov 26 2020.</p> 37 38 <p>The signatures for the release can be found in <a href="https://gist.github.com/carusogabriel/b5ddfc1e166bff3c4fa6db0e83352b95">the manifest</a> or on <a href="https://qa.php.net/">the QA site</a>.</p> 39 40 <p>Thank you for helping us make PHP better.</p> 41 </div> 42 </content> 43</entry> 44
