PHP 8 is available in Local for versions 5.9.7 and later.

Benjamin Turner: TY! Already found my first failure!

This has been released to Local Beta:

For more info about PHP 8 and what it means for Local and WordPress, take a look at this help doc:

Due to PHP 8 having considerable breaking changes and only being considered "Beta Compatible" with the larger WordPress ecosystem, we're only making it available to Local Beta users.

Ram Ratan Maurya: +1

Would be really helpful to have it in the next version. :)

With WordPress 5.6 close to release, it would be amazing to get hands on it soon 🙏

+1 and following this thread.

+1 from me too

Clay Griffiths: Is there anything we can do to help you in that process?

Hi all, we're actively working on adding PHP 8 as a native Lightning Service.

Thanks for the submission and votes, everyone!