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Commit: 71d41c1e8f71300d4e88929385a9c8848880d81a Author: Anatol Belski <ab@php.net> Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:57:54 +0200 Parents: 397c7a9495ce6642835492afac0f0aeeb3e2846f Branches: master Link: http://git.php.net/?p=web/php.git;a=commitdiff;h=71d41c1e8f71300d4e88929385a9c8848880d81a Log: add news for 7.0.0beta2 Changed paths: A archive/entries/2015-07-24-1.xml Diff: diff --git a/archive/entries/2015-07-24-1.xml b/archive/entries/2015-07-24-1.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f843bae --- /dev/null +++ b/archive/entries/2015-07-24-1.xml @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> + <title>PHP 7.0.0 Beta 2 Released</title> + <id>http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-07-24-1</id> + <published>2015-07-24T02:00:00+01:00</published> + <updated>2015-07-24T02:00:00+01:00</updated> + <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> + <category term="frontpage" label="PHP..net frontpage news"/> + <link href="http://php.net/index.php#id2015-07-24-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> + <link href="http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-07-24-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> + <content type="xhtml"> + <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> + <p> + The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of + PHP 7.0.0 Beta 2. This is the fourth pre-release of the new PHP 7 + major series. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, + and report any bugs and incompatibilities in <a href="https://bugs.php.net">the bug tracking system</a>. + </p> + + <strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO <u>NOT</u> USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong> + + <p> + PHP 7.0.0 Beta 2 contains fixes for 28 reported bugs and altogether over 200 commits with various improvements. + </p> + + <p> + PHP 7.0.0 comes with new version of the Zend Engine with features such as (incomplete list): + </p> + <ul> + <li>Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6</li> + <li>Consistent 64-bit support</li> + <li>Many fatal errors are now Exceptions</li> + <li>Removal of old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions</li> + <li>The null coalescing operator (??)</li> + <li>Combined comparison Operator (&lt;=&gt;)</li> + <li>Return Type Declarations</li> + <li>Scalar Type Declarations</li> + <li>Anonymous Classes</li> + </ul> + + <p> + For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the + <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.0.0beta2/NEWS">NEWS file</a>, or the + <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.0.0beta2/UPGRADING">UPGRADING file</a> + for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. + </p> + + <p> + For source downloads of PHP 7.0.0 Beta 2 please visit + the <a href="https://downloads.php.net/ab/">download page</a>, Windows source and binaries + can be found on <a href="http://windows.php.net/qa/">windows.php.net/qa/</a>. + </p> + + <p> + The next release will be Beta 3, which is to be released on the 6th of August. You can also + read the full list of planned releases on our <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php70#timetable">wiki</a>. + </p> + + <p> + Thank you for helping us make PHP better. + </p> + </div> + </content> +</entry>