The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes.

The latest release of the PHP programming language brings new features such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility and new array search functions.

The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default.