So what's the major version bump about? The "World Wine News" wasn't particularly useful.
* 8.0.2 is just a patch release; the 8.x branch has been running forward for 8 months to reach 8.14
* the real 8.0 feature list is in https://www.winehq.org/news/2022120901, the 8.0-rc1 article from Nov 2022