Release Schedule for PHP 8.0 正式版计划发布时间为2020年12月3号
The first schedule points to 3rd of December 2020, as the General Announcement date for PHP 8’s release.
There are some very important dates before this, though.
Alpha Releases
The first alpha release should come out around mid June 2020. As usual, this is a great moment to find bugs, ask for changes and there’s still a short window of time to get your commits in.
After the third alpha (mid July) a feature freeze is scheduled, this shall happen by the end of July. (27th of July)
Feature Freeze
By the moment the Feature Freeze comes (end of July 2020) no further language features can target PHP 8.0 anymore.
From that moment on you can already trust which features will be present. You can find them in this post I wrote about what will come with PHP 8.0.
PHP 8 Release Candidates RC版本
There are 6 Release Candidates scheduled for PHP 8.
The first release candidate, PHP 8.0-RC1, should be available short after first week of September.
All RC releases are scheduled on a bi-weekly basis, meaning each second week a new RC should come out.
The last Release Candidate, PHP 8.0-RC6, will become available around the 19th of November 2020.
最后一个PHP8.0 RC6版本发布时间为2020年11月19日左右
This shall bring sufficient time for testing, bug finding (and fixing) and preparing for the release that comes with the first week of December 2020