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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:35:53 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Tomorrow is an important day
From: lear@lear.ch (Eliot Lear)

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Gabriel,

Thank you and the internals team for their hard work on this.  As
someone from the periphery I am excited about the release.

Eliot
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On 25.11.20 14:41, Gabriel Caruso wrote:

> Hello internals!
>
> I’d like to take a moment to reflect what will happen tomorrow with all of
> you and how that is important to me and I’d say, to everyone: PHP 8.0.0 is
> going to be released, YES!
>
> PHP 8.0 was the first PHP version that I had the opportunity, pleasure and
> time to follow its development from beginning to end. Not only that, I had
> the honour to be voted as one of its Release Managers. I first heard of PHP
> a couple of years ago, and being able to help release its new major version
> this year is, by far, one of the most honourable things that ever happened
> to me.
>
> I won’t spend time talking about how much stuff we have changed and
> introduced in PHP 8.0, you can go ahead and Google for talks, blogs,
> documents and much more about it. Let’s get that and spread the word
> outside of our community, everyone needs to know how great PHP 8.0 is!
>
> I won’t thank him, her or anyone in particular, I will thank everyone and
> anyone that helped with this new version of PHP. Old schools, newbies,
> Africans, Europeans, Americans, and of course our Asian community. Do we
> have someone from Oceania or Antarctica that have contributed to PHP? I
> think so, PHP is from everyone to anyone. Even known folks from PHP tools,
> libraries and frameworks helped on this version, and it was beautiful to
> see this bridge being built.
>
> Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend tomorrow’s release party, as I’ll
> be (literally) flying to Brazil. I wish all the best of luck to Sara and
> everyone else that will be releasing it.
>
> That’s all folks, tomorrow a new era of PHP starts and I can’t wait to see
> what the future reserves for us! Stay safe, stay home, wear a mask once you
> go out, and let’s finish 2020 on a high!
>
> . Gabriel Caruso
>

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