This will be the full release unless it kills kittens. You have until Tuesday to pull the breaks.
Pike 8.0.162 release candidate for your testing pleasures:
https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.162/Pike-v8.0.162.tar.gz
Windows build:
https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.162/Pike-v8.0.162-win32-oldli bs.msi
... And now there's a corresponding ebuild in the Gentoo Pike overlay.
/grubba