I have three windows 10 computers and I tried to download the new version of XAMPP on them. One was successful the other two installations were a disaster.
I wished to keep the older version, so I created a new folder and downloaded the new version into that. On the successful download the new folder was filled with the requisite XAMPP folders and files. On the other two computers the folders were empty. Eventually I had to give up and created a Windows restore point.
I write books on web design and I have been asked by Apress.com to update my book on PHP and MySQL to accommodate PHP7 and MySQL 8.
In the original version of the book I recommended XAMPP but this is in doubt for the new book.