Appreciate everyone’s feedback as we continue to make a lot of progress on v18 BETA work. You may have seen some of the efforts in PHP 8.2 → 8.4 modernization specifically in the associated release/18.0 and other branches in individual modules.
One item worth mentioning – but not yet seen in this topic, although it’s been mentioned in others – is the upgrade of the firewall subsystem, with a planned move to nftables and potentially some GeoIP support.