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PHP
php.net › releases › 8.0 › en.php
PHP: PHP 8.0.0 Release Announcement
PHP 8.0 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features and optimizations including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, JIT, and improvements in ...
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Stitcher
stitcher.io › blog › new-in-php-8
What's new in PHP 8 | Stitcher.io
November 26, 2020 - PHP 8 was released on November 26, 2020. You can download it here.
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Five Exciting Features in PHP 8

Putting tweets in your article

Just stop.

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July 3, 2020
PHP 8 - All new features with interactive examples

Playground idea is very useful. Though starting examples are very basic and do not showcase usefulness of those features. Maybe original RFCs could be pouched for their examples instead?

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October 29, 2020
An internals discussion on PHP 8

i would love to see a `strict` version of PHP, with unified function names, and rules for writing code correctly. The main criticism for PHP has always been that it's too forgiving and that it's not consistent.

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Looking At The PHP 8.0 Performance So Far In Early 2020

These results don't look right to me, possibly the JIT did not enable successfully? At least on bench.php and micro_bench.php the effect of enabling JIT should be clearly visible.

For me bench.php goes from 0.2s to 0.1s, and micro_bench.php from 1.2s to 1.0s

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PHP.Watch
php.watch › versions › 8.0 › releases
PHP 8.0 releases, Docker images, source code downloads, and Windows binary downloads
PHP 8.0, on the 25th year of PHP history, brings several important features such as Union Types, JIT, Constructor Property Promotion, Match Syntax, Named Parameters, and several more performance, syntax, and quality-of-life improvements.
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Kinsta®
kinsta.com › home › resource center › blog › php updates › what’s new in php 8 (features, improvements, and the jit compiler)
What's New in PHP 8 (Features, Improvements, and the JIT Compiler)
June 6, 2025 - PHP 8 was officially released on November 26, 2020! This major update brings many optimizations and powerful features. We'll show you!
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CloudPanel
cloudpanel.io › blog › php-8.0-what-is-new-in-the-major-update
PHP 8.0 - What is new the huge update? Release News
PHP 8.0 is a huge update of the PHP language. It contains many new features and optimizations. You get better performance, better syntax, improved safety.
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PHP.Watch
php.watch › versions › 8.0
PHP 8.0: What's New and Changed • PHP.Watch
In PHP 8.0, they are work as value-objects as opposed to fully-features classes with methods in them. Majority of these classes do not allow instantiating with the new Foo() construct either, and must be instantiated with the existing functions that returned resource objects in prior versions. PHP 8.0's resource to object migration is quite seamless, as in all functions return and accept the new objects, and behave by the same semantics of the previous resource objects.
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Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PHP
PHP - Wikipedia
4 days ago - The addition of a rich type system is part of a general trend towards a stricter language, and PHP 8.0 included breaking changes to the handling of string to number comparisons, numeric strings, and incompatible method signatures. Later versions have introduced deprecation notices for behaviour which is planned as a breaking change in a future major version, such as passing null to non-nullable internal function parameters and referring to properties which have not been declared on the class. Beginning on 28 June 2011, the PHP Development Team implemented a timeline for the release of new versions of PHP.
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Zend
zend.com › blog › php-8-eol
PHP 8 Upgrade Plans | PHP 8 EOL | PHP 8.0 End of Life | Zend
February 26, 2024 - PHP 8.0 reached end of security support on November 26, 2023. When PHP 8.0 reached the end of the security support phase on November 26, 2023, that means it reached community end of life.
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cPanel & WHM
docs.cpanel.net › ea4 › php › php-8
PHP 8 | cPanel & WHM Documentation
December 10, 2025 - This document discusses the key changes and limitations of PHP 8 in EasyApache 4. PHP 8 is the most recent major version released by php.net.
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GeeksforGeeks
geeksforgeeks.org › php › introduction-to-php8
Introduction to PHP8 - GeeksforGeeks
August 6, 2025 - Additionally, PHP 8 introduces Union Types and Named Arguments, refining type safety and code readability. The introduction of attributes streamlines metadata handling, while Constructor Property Promotion simplifies class definitions. Error handling sees enhancements with the introduction of the new Throwable interface hierarchy, facilitating more consistent exception handling.
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PHP.Watch
php.watch › versions
PHP Versions • PHP.Watch
PHP 8.2 is the latest PHP version which brings readonly classes, DNF types, null, false, and true types, sensitive parameter redaction support, a new random extension, and several new features along with a few deprecations.
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Cloudways
cloudways.com › home › php 8: all you need to know to upgrade
PHP 8: Key Features, Improvements & Upgrade Guide
February 23, 2022 - PHP 8 is the most talked-about achievement of PHP language. PHP 8 introduced new and improved features, JIT Compiler, Named arguments, Match expressions, etc.