PHP 8, the new major PHP version, is expected to be released on December 3, 2020. That means there will be no PHP 7.5 version. PHP 8 in very active development right now, so things are likely to change a lot in the upcoming months.

In this post I’ll keep an up-to-date list of what’s expected to come: new features, performance improvements and breaking changes. Because PHP 8 is a new major version, there’s a higher chance of your code breaking. If you’ve kept up to date with the latest releases though, the upgrade shouldn’t be too hard, since most breaking changes were deprecated before in the 7.* versions.

Besides breaking changes, PHP 8 also brings some nice new features such as the JIT compiler, union types, attributes, and more.

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