[frosted-flakes]

Just save your vault as a local folder and sync it yourself. I use SyncThing.

[ValentineC]

I think the problem here is that 1Password wants to remove "standalone" vaults altogether, preventing any form of 3rd party sync solution.

[geerlingguy]

Exactly—there are two major changes: the Electron change (which I'm 'meh' on, but could accept on its own), plus entirely dropping support for local vaults in version 8.