It will probably come in April. And I honestly would not find that surprising considering the UI 7 took over 4 months last year for the S24 line. Probably combine the final release with the April patch and in between, it is possible to see a beta 8 before that. Many beta users have been mentioning battery drainage with the beta 7 and Samsung will need to work out more kinks.
From March 13,
"A new One UI 8.5 testing build, S93xNKSU8ZZC9, has been spotted online. This indicates that One UI 8.5 Beta 8 is currently in development. Because of this, it looks like Samsung will release at least one more beta update before rolling out the stable version to all users."
From March 18,
"One UI 8.5 Samsung has been running the One UI 8.5 Beta Program since December last year. The company is expected to push another (8th) Beta to the Galaxy S25 series. The stable build will likely be available for the flagship phones next month.
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This beta version already has March. What you may be mixing up is Google Play update which is handled from Google. They don't push these updates often on beta software.
