# Laravel: PHP 8 Support

DevFeed: [Laravel: PHP 8 Support](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/laravel-php-8-support-3793.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/laravel-php-8-support>)

Author: Dries Vints

Published: 2020-11-26T15:21:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [PHPUnit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/phpunit.md>)

Tags: [dependencies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependencies.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [packages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packages.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

Laravel provides guidance for upgrading applications to PHP 8, including using the latest Laravel 6, 7, or 8 release and updating Laravel first-party packages and common dependencies. Applications should be tested before deployment to production.

## Source excerpt

PHP 8 has been officially released! We've been hard at work behind the scenes to provide support for all our libraries so that upgrading to PHP 8 with Laravel is easy.