1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 3 <title>PHP 8.1.0 RC 2 available for testing</title> 4 <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2021.php#2021-09-16-1</id> 5 <published>2021-09-16T20:07:08+02:00</published> 6 <updated>2021-09-16T20:07:08+02:00</updated> 7 <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#id2021-09-16-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> 8 <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2021.php#2021-09-16-1" 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 release of PHP 8.1.0, RC 2. 14 This is the second release candidate, continuing the PHP 8.1 release cycle, 15 the rough outline of which is specified in the 16 <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php81">PHP Wiki</a>. 17 </p> 18 <p> 19 For source downloads of PHP 8.1.0, RC 2 please visit the 20 <a href="https://downloads.php.net/~patrickallaert/">download page</a>. 21 </p> 22 <p> 23 Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the 24 <a href="http://bugs.php.net">bug reporting system</a>. 25 </p> 26 <p><b>Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.</b></p> 27 <p> 28 For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the 29 <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.1.0RC2/NEWS">NEWS</a> file 30 or the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.1.0RC2/UPGRADING">UPGRADING</a> 31 file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be 32 found in the release archive. 33 </p> 34 <p> 35 The next release will be the third release candidate (RC 3), planned 36 for 30 September 2021. 37 </p> 38 <p> 39 The signatures for the release can be found in 40 <a href="https://gist.github.com/patrickallaert/7ddadb0704186367d33f7c7c61acb7ce">the manifest</a> 41 or on <a href="https://qa.php.net/">the QA site</a>. 42 </p> 43 <p>Thank you for helping us make PHP better.</p> 44 </div> 45 </content> 46</entry> 47
