Hi,

There are a number of fixes in QA_4_8 so I'd like to look ahead to releasing 4.8.1. However, there are a number of big issues that would be good to fix soon. One is https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/14220 about authenticating against MySQL 8.0.11. I don't know if there's anything else that's pressing for 4.8.1 and at this point it might be worth pushing out 4.8.1 with the known issue of being unable to connect to MySQL 8.0.11 and delay that fix until 4.8.2.

i'm looking for some input or thoughts about this if you have them.

Isaac