Announce 8.1.0beta2

Author: ramsey

archive/archive.xml

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archive/entries/2021-08-05-2.xml

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+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+  <title>PHP 8.1.0 Beta 2 available for testing</title>
+  <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2021.php#2021-08-05-2</id>
+  <published>2021-08-05T15:16:40+00:00</published>
+  <updated>2021-08-05T15:16:40+00:00</updated>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#id2021-08-05-2" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2021.php#2021-08-05-2" rel="via" type="text/html"/>
+  <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/>
+  <content type="xhtml">
+    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+      <p>
+        The PHP team is pleased to announce the first beta release of PHP 8.1.0, Beta 2.
+        This continues the PHP 8.1 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the
+        <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php81">PHP Wiki</a>.
+      </p>
+      <p>For source downloads of PHP 8.1.0, Beta 2 please visit the <a href="https://downloads.php.net/~ramsey">download page</a>.</p>
+      <p>Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the <a href="http://bugs.php.net">bug reporting system</a>.</p>
+      <p><b>Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.</b></p>
+      <p>
+        For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the
+        <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.1.0beta2/NEWS">NEWS</a> file,
+        or the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.1.0beta2/UPGRADING">UPGRADING</a>
+        file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.
+      </p>
+      <p>The next release will be Beta 3, planned for Aug 19 2021.</p>
+      <p>The signatures for the release can be found in <a href="https://gist.github.com/ramsey/50a79dda00c1b669ac121c89d45ee46d">the manifest</a> or on <a href="https://qa.php.net/">the QA site</a>.</p>
+      <p>Thank you for helping us make PHP better.</p>
+    </div>
+  </content>
+</entry>