MySQLi with PHP 8.0.6: Unsupported anymore - php

i was updating my production server with php 8 and i discovered an error "Fatal Error: Class mysqli not found". So i asked to the support and they told me that "according to php official manual, mysqli is not supported anymore in php 8".
I tried to find any news on the internet about this, but i can't find anything.
Looking at the php changelog, they talk about bugfixes for mysqli library until PHP 8.0.2, then nothing.
Looking at the MySQLi official page on the php manual, there is only "PHP5, PHP7" as supported (while there is PHP 8 on PDO instead).
So, has somebody any news about this? What happened?
I got the same problem installing Wamp Server on a local machine with PHP 8.0.6, so i think they really removed MySQLi from the library, but in both local and production doing a phpinfo() i can clearly see "mysqli" extension installed.
Thank you in advance.
EDIT:
About the production server, basically, provider told me "use sp-php instead of php", and now mysqli works.
About the PHP.net, i think they forgot to add the support.

It's just a documentation problem. There's a pull request to add PHP/8 to the supported versions but it hasn't made its way to live yet.

mysqli is still supported with php ≥8.
In my Ubuntu (22.04) for example, it was not included in the distribution. You can install it at any time with:
sudo apt-get install php-mysqlnd
After rebooting php, everything works as expected.
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