Re: 7.3 features in announcement

On 02.12.2018 at 21:24, Jakub Zelenka wrote: > I was wondering if we have got a final list of the top features that will > be listed in the announcement for the stable release. > > Not sure how it's usually selected but thought that it would be good to > list FPM logging changes that I have been working on and it's the main > improvement in FPM [1]. It's not probably that interesting for PHP devs but > it might be quite importants for DevOps who use FPM with Docker and want to > properly collect logs from containers. My current client will be updating > to 7.3 pretty soon just because of that. > > [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2458 Thanks for bringing this up, Jakub! To be honest, I haven't really thought about the release announcement before, so this is a fine reminder. Regarding the FPM logging changes: indeed, this seems to be quite an improvement! :) However, it seems there is no note in UPGRADING (which is important for the migration guide in the manual) yet. Could you please add the missing note? Regarding other prominent features, I think the “Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntaxes”[2] and the “PCRE2 migration”[3] should certainly be mentioned. Also the MBString improvements[4], as well as the deprecations[5], and also the file related Windows improvements[6]. I'm likely missing other important changes, and may overestimate some of those I've mentionened above. I'm looking forward to suggestions! [2] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/flexible_heredoc_nowdoc_syntaxes> [3] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pcre2-migration> [4] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0RC6/UPGRADING#L186-L232> [5] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0RC6/UPGRADING#L259-L323> [6] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0RC6/UPGRADING#L643-L647> -- Christoph M. Becker