What's Changed

🛠️ Enhancements & Fixes

• PHP 8.2 linting via GitHub Actions (#4018)
• Resolved premature stream read termination (#4032)
• Improved releases task performance (#4034)
• Corrected behavior when rsync flags are empty (#4044)
• Removed duplicate Content-Type headers (#4026)
• Updated config.yml settings (#4053)
• Enhanced PHP Composer parsing (#4055)
• Fixed typo in node_version variable within provisioning notices (#4062)

📚 Documentation

• Updated avoid-php-fpm-reloading.md for clarity (#4027)
• Added prerequisites for add-apt-repository usage (#4054)

🧩 New Features

• Introduced crontab:remove task in contrib/crontab.php (#4033)
• Enabled customizable artisan paths in Laravel deployments (#4066)
• Added task to execute artisan schedule:interrupt (#4071)

🛠️ Recipe Updates

• Disabled http:cache:warm:up step for Shopware versions 6.6 and above (#4041)
• Shared theme folder for atomic themes in Shopware recipe (#4059)
• Reverted shared theme folder change in Shopware recipe (#4060)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Escaped shell arguments when setting remote crontab (#4042)

New Contributors

• @adrum made their first contribution in #4027
• @pelmered made their first contribution in #4032
• @raygesualdo made their first contribution in #4033
• @poespas made their first contribution in #4041
• @silentvick made their first contribution in #4042
• @Max13 made their first contribution in #4053
• @Skullsneeze made their first contribution in #4066
• @lbausch made their first contribution in #4071

Full Changelog: v8.0.0-alpha.1...v8.0.0-alpha.2

• Fixed compatibility issues between php7 and php8
• Updated docker image to use php8.3

• Added: bitbucket pipelines example by @james2doyle in #3979
• Fix php7.4 after 7.5.6 by @Kilbourne in #4001
• Update theme:dump with new non-interactive option by @carstenjaksch in #4004
• Make default_selector a fallback rather than an override (#3950) (#4009) by @florinr08 in #4010
• Added: encode responses in the file server by @james2doyle in #4014

• Fixed bugs with tailing commas in PHP7.

• Fixed tailing comma errors in PHP7.
• Fixed default_selector behavior.
• Fixed Docker binary name to dep.

• More fixes for optional parameters specified before required parameters errors.
• Do not throw an exception on E_DEPRECATED error.

• Fixed optional parameters specified before required parameters error.

Deployer 8 is here, marking the start of a new chapter:

• PHP 8+ Ready: Modernized codebase built for the future.
• Improved Architecture: Stronger, more scalable foundation.
• Bug Fixes: Resolving long-standing issues from version 7.

This is an alpha release, with more alphas and betas to come before a stable version. Feedback is welcome as we refine and stabilize!

• Added support for PHP 8.4.
• Removed task artisan:create_key from Laravel recipe.

• Fixed deploy:env task to correctly check in .env file exists, if it is a symlink.