PHP 8.0.0 Released

November 28th, 2020 / By Andrew Currie

PHP 8 has arrived and was released on November 26th, 2020. This is a major update and it provides some exciting new features and optimizations.

Union Types accept values of multiple different types, rather than a single one
JIT (Just in Time) compiler performance improvements
Named arguments easily pass values to your functions.
New static return type
And lots more…

Click the button below to download the first stable release, PHP 8.0.0. If you’re developing locally on a Mac you can install PHP 8.0.0 using the built-in recipe with Homebrew.

Installing PHP 8 with Homebrew

Before you begin be sure to update Homebrew first:

brew update

To install using the built-in PHP recipe, simply use the following:

brew update php

To install PHP 8.0.0 with support for other PHP versions tap the following recipe and install:

brew tap shivammathur/php

brew install shivammathur/php/php@8.0