At the end of 2024 PMI released an exposure draft of the PMBOK Guide Eighth Edition for public opinion and review. This 30 day window allows project managers in the general public to review the publication and voice opinions on how it is designed and any errors, omissions, etc. Once this 30 day window closes PMI will review all the comments and continue with the development of the PMBOK Guide Eighth Edition to be released at some point in the future. As of this post they have not mentioned a release date, but based on historical life cycles we anticipate it will be released in late 2025 or early 2026.

  Some of the major updates include the following:

• This version is a significant change from the Seventh Edition in that it goes back to more of a structure aligned with the Sixth Edition and earlier versions. 
• The PMBOK Guide Eighth edition goes back to a somewhat knowledge areas and/or process groups structure compared to the Seventh Edition. 
• The PMBOK Guide Eighth edition has a return of processes, and/or Inputs, Tools and Techniques, or Outputs.
• The PMBOK Guide Eighth edition has a common design structure for Inputs, Tools and Techniques, or Outputs.
• The new edition removes formal items in performance domains like Project Work and Measurement.
• Subjects like Delivery and Uncertainty from the Seventh Edition have been renamed more traditional names again like Scope and Risk.
• The Eighth edition PMBOK Guide appears to be designed to be a stand alone standard unlike The PMBOK Guide seventh edition which needs the sixth edition or process groups practice guide as a basis to help identify the processes you will apply in the workplace.
• The eighth edition or seventh edition is NOT the basis, nor a reference for the current PMP Exam, other than content that was already in the sixth edition PMBOK Guide.