1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 3 <title>PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2 Released</title> 4 <id>http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-06-25-1</id> 5 <published>2015-06-25T12:00:00+01:00</published> 6 <updated>2015-06-25T12:00:00+01:00</updated> 7 <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> 8 <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> 9 <link href="http://php.net/index.php#id2015-06-25-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> 10 <link href="http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-06-25-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> 11 <content type="xhtml"> 12 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 13 <p> 14 The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of 15 PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2. This is the second pre-release of the new PHP 7 16 major series. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, 17 and report any bugs and incompatibilities in <a href="https://bugs.php.net">the bug tracking system</a>. 18 </p> 19 20 <strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO <u>NOT</u> USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong> 21 22 <p> 23 Alpha 2 introduces the new Throwable interface and changes to the Exception hierarchy 24 and about 25 bug fixes reported since the first alpha. 25 </p> 26 27 <p> 28 PHP 7.0.0 comes with new version of the Zend Engine with features such as (incomplete list): 29 </p> 30 <ul> 31 <li>Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6</li> 32 <li>Consistent 64-bit support</li> 33 <li>Many fatal errors are now Exceptions</li> 34 <li>Removal of old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions</li> 35 <li>The null coalescing operator (??)</li> 36 <li>Combined comparison Operator (<=>)</li> 37 <li>Return Type Declarations</li> 38 <li>Scalar Type Declarations</li> 39 <li>Anonymous Classes</li> 40 </ul> 41 42 <p> 43 For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the 44 <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.0.0alpha2/NEWS">NEWS file</a>, or the 45 <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.0.0alpha2/UPGRADING">UPGRADING file</a> 46 for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. 47 </p> 48 49 <p> 50 For source downloads of PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2 please visit 51 the <a href="https://downloads.php.net/ab/">download page</a>, Windows source and binaries 52 can be found on <a href="http://windows.php.net/qa/">windows.php.net/qa/</a>. 53 </p> 54 55 <p> 56 The next release will be Beta 1, which is to be released on the 9th of July. You can also 57 read the full list of planned releases on our <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php70#timetable">wiki</a>. 58 </p> 59 60 <p> 61 Thank you for helping us make PHP better. 62 </p> 63 </div> 64 </content> 65</entry> 66
