Just a few days after it was officially announced by the PHP development team, the latest bugfix-only release of PHP 5.6.0 is now available on all servers within our web hosting network.
This is the third-in-a-row Release Candidate version of PHP 5.6.0, which accumulates all bug fixes that have been reported by the large PHP community worldwide.
The latest version boasts a wide range of improvements and brand new features that are aimed at making PHP much safer and easier to work with.
Here is a list of the key new features included in the new release:
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operator, instead of the func_get_args()
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operator and a **=
shorthand assignment operator have been added to support exponentiation.use function
construct) and constants (via the use const
construct), apart from classes.phpdbg
, which is implemented as a SAPI module.default_charset
is now used as the default character set for functions that are encoding-specific, such as htmlspecialchars()
. The default value for this setting is UTF-8.You can see a full list of the new features and functionalities of the new PHP 5.6.0 release here: http://php.net/manual/en/migration56.new-features.php.
All PHP users are encouraged to try out the new version carefully, and to report any bugs in the bug tracking system – https://bugs.php.net/.
The next Release Candidate version of PHP 5.6.0 is expected to be released in mid-August.
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Support team