Re: Re: 7.3 features in announcement

On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 11:51 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > 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? > Speaking of which, what's the state of the migration guide for 7.3? I think it is usually available by the time of the GA release, but I can't find it on deployed docs (and docs.php.net seems down...) Nikita > 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] <?k}c > ٖ�rsohttps://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.3.0RC6/UPGRADING#L643-L647> > >