1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 3 <title>PHP 8.0.0 Released!</title> 4 <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2020.php#2020-11-26-3</id> 5 <published>2020-11-26T13:07:59+00:00</published> 6 <updated>2020-11-26T13:07:59+00:00</updated> 7 <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#id2020-11-26-3" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> 8 <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2020.php#2020-11-26-3" rel="via" type="text/html"/> 9 <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> 10 <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> 11 <content type="xhtml"> 12 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 13<p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.0.0. This release marks the latest major release of the PHP language.</p> 14 15<p>PHP 8.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:</p> 16<ul> 17 <li>Union Types</li> 18 <li>Named Arguments</li> 19 <li>Match Expressions</li> 20 <li>Attributes</li> 21 <li>Constructor Property Promotion</li> 22 <li>Nullsafe Operator</li> 23 <li>Weak Maps</li> 24 <li>Just In Time Compilation</li> 25 <li>And much much more...</li> 26</ul> 27 28<p>Take a look at the <a href="https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/">PHP 8.0 Announcement Addendum</a> for more information.</p> 29 30<p>For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 please visit our <a href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php">downloads page</a>, 31Windows source and binaries can be found on <a href="https://windows.php.net/download/">windows.php.net/download/</a>. 32The list of changes is recorded in the <a href="https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.0.0">ChangeLog</a>. 33</p> 34 35<p>The <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/migration80.php">migration guide</a> is available in the PHP Manual. 36Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.</p> 37 38<p>Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!</p> 39 </div> 40 </content> 41</entry> 42
