Recommended requirements page says PHP 7.4 or greater implying PHP 8.0.3 is also recommended

[alanfuller]

Line 48 text says

'<a href="%1$s">PHP</a> version %2$s or greater'

which becomes PHP version 7.4 or greater

which implies PHP 8 is also recommended

The support team believe "WP doesn’t fully support 8 yet" so it would be wrong to recommend it

I propose line 48 text is changed simply to

'<a href="%1$s">PHP</a> version %2$s'

[alanfuller]

This source, I forgot the link

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/pub/wporg-main/page-about-requirements.php

en_gb renders as ​https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/requirements/

[dd32]

The text is correct, WordPress recommends PHP 7.4, 8.0, or higher.

Anyone saying WordPress "doesn't support PHP8" is IMHO personal opinion, you can run WordPress on PHP8 without issue currently.

Not all plugins support PHP8, Not all themes support PHP8, and some of them can trigger PHP Notices/Warnings inside WordPress - See ​this php8 query for currently known-but-not-fixed related issues.