Yeah, confused headscratching here. I'm trying to understand where the OP got the impression that PHP8 has been just released because that is a heck of a delay.

Yeah, confused headscratching here. I'm trying to understand where the OP got the impression that PHP8 has been just released because that is a heck of a delay. Did a distro got 8.0 just now? Edit: I weakly suspect it could be Ubuntu (because of their new release), but nope, it was last year: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-21.10-PHP-8-Transition https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-21.10-PHP-8-Transition, so if OP could explain the reason for mistaking PHP 8 as a new thing then it would clear up my headscratching.