Posting here since I don’t seem to be able to reply to posts in the News section.
I am going to test the PHP8 pre alpha on our 60K+ users installation (LDAP backend). However I just read that the new release will only be distributed as a docker image. We really rely on the plain tarball in our setup, we use the minimal version with a couple of modifications to the source code.
Please reassure me that at least the minimal tar.bz2 will still be distributed 
the tar ball is available - just like any source code of owncloud.
It is simply a no longer supported installation mechanism. Not saying it will not work (why shouldn’t it) - but we do not document anything else besides the docker setup and in case of trouble: told you so - not supported.
This is done to streamline the effort being put into the project.
Other than that: Thank you for pre-testing! Much appreciated! In return I’ll give you a hand or two to support your non-docker setup 