New PHP Version coming soon?
It has been announced, PHP 8.2.0 Release Rescheduled to December 8.
Will the new version of the PHP be delayed again?
PHP 8.2 is a key milestone in PHP’s journey in modernizing the PHP language.
In addition to the exciting new features and improvements, PHP 8.2 streamlines the language by deprecating support for dynamic class properties, warnings when it encounters certain non-optimal INI configuration values, and fixing some of the legacy PHP behavior that affects how PHP sorts arrays and certain types of string transform/encode operations.
Everyone asking the same question, till now this is was interesting, new improvements and features are right around the corner.
The upcoming major PHP version, PHP 8.2.0, was scheduled to be released on November 24 this year. Sergey Panteleev, one of the release managers for PHP 8.2 announced today that the PHP 8.2.0 release will be rescheduled to December 8th.
This decision was taken by the PHP release managers to account for a new bug reported by Bob Weinand (one of the prominent PHP core contributors) in PHP’s Opcache. Fixes 37b3e377 and 97236f9d are now committed. Third-party PHP extensions might need to account for the changes made in these fixes.
Further, Thanksgiving falls on November 24th, which gives another reason to reschedule the upcoming PHP release.
PHP 8.2 the latest PHP version brings readonly classes, DNF types, null, false, and true types, sensitive parameter redaction support, a new random extension, and several new features along with a few deprecations.
PHP 8.2 RC 6 Released
RC 6 was scheduled for November 10 and was supposed to be the last RC release before the 8.2.0 release.
Although the RC 6 will no longer be the last one, PHP 8.2 RC 6 is now available for testing.
Updated PHP 8.2 Release Schedule
- November 24th: PHP 8.2 RC7
- December 8th: PHP 8.2.0 Generally available
- December 15th: PHP 8.2.1 RC
- January 5th: PHP 8.2.1 RC
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