It’s that time again for the Santa ElePHPhant to visit all the good little developers around the world and shower them with new goodies that make it easier for them to build the web.
As of today, PHP 8.4.1 is in release status and it comes with numerous improvements and new features such as …
- Property Hooks allowing each property to define its own get and set hooks
- Asymmetric Property Visibility
- Lazy Objects – multiple new methods and constants
- #[\Deprecated] attribute to mark functions, methods, and class constants
- Parsing RFC1867 (multipart) requests in non-POST HTTP requests
- Chaining new expressions without parentheses
- Improved Debugging Info for WeakReference
- Improved Debugging Info for Closure
- Defining Identical Symbols in Different Namespace Blocks
- cURL added versions
- DOM added functions
- Intl added functionality
- OpenSSL added support
- PCRE updated
- PDO driver-specific subclasses
- PDO_MYSQL added custom parser
- PDO_PGSQL added custom parser
- PDO_SQLITE added custom parser
- Phar support for the Unix timestamp extension for Zip archives
- Readline ability to change the .php_history path through the PHP_HISTFILE environment variable
- Reflection multiple new methods and constants
- SOAP clark notation for namespaces in class map
- Standard new rounding modes
- XSL parameters that contain both single and double quotes
- Zip and BCMath object type
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