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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     <uri>http://php.net/contact</uri>
     <email>php-webmaster@lists.php.net</email>
   </author>
+  <xi:include href="entries/2020-07-09-1.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2020-06-25-1.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2020-06-24-1.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2020-06-11-2.xml"/>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+  <title>PHP 8.0.0 Alpha 2 available for testing</title>
+  <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2020.php#2020-07-09-1</id>
+  <published>2020-07-09T09:55:15+00:00</published>
+  <updated>2020-07-09T09:55:15+00:00</updated>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#id2020-07-09-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2020.php#2020-07-09-1" 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 second testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Alpha 2.
+        This continues the PHP 8.0 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the
+        <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php80">PHP Wiki</a>.
+        </p>
+        
+        <p>For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Alpha 2 please visit the <a href="https://downloads.php.net/~carusogabriel">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-8.0.0alpha2/NEWS">NEWS</a> file,
+         or the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.0.0alpha2/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 Alpha 3, planned for 23 Jul 2020.</p>
+        
+        <p>The signatures for the release can be found in <a href="https://gist.github.com/carusogabriel/0ae8a6238ab9336be7d8e1eb6873888f">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>