Month: October 2020

Last time, we looked at ways in which PHP 8.0 has become stricter. Today, we look at the next step in PHP becoming faster.
Some background Computers don’t actually understand programming languages; they understand very low level instructions no human could write by hand. There are many ways of getting from a human-readable language like PHP or Rust to a computer-understandable set of instructions.
The most basic, and usually most performant, way is to compile the human-friendly source code directly to CPU instructions “Ahead-of-Time” (AOT).

The PHP team is pleased to announce the tenth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 3. At this time, we’re not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 3 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the Release Candidate 4, planned for Nov 12 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

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In our last chapter we went over several smaller feature improvements to PHP. Today, we’ll cover several minor language changes that make PHP safer, but may trip up some older code.
There’s been a very steady trend in PHP over the last several years toward making the language tighter. That means more edge cases that are “undefined behavior that kinda silently works most of the time” turn into explicit warnings or errors, behavior that was documented but totally illogical gets adjusted to be more logical, and so on.

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The PHP team is pleased to announce the ninth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 2. At this time, we’re not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 2 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the Release Candidate 3, planned for Oct 29 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.