1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 3 <title>PHP 7.1.0 Released</title> 4 <id>http://php.net/archive/2016.php#id2016-12-01-3</id> 5 <published>2016-12-01T17:55:05+00:00</published> 6 <updated>2016-12-01T17:55:05+00:00</updated> 7 <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> 8 <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> 9 <link href="http://php.net/index.php#id2016-12-01-3" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> 10 <link href="http://php.net/archive/2016.php#id2016-12-01-3" rel="via" type="text/html"/> 11 <content type="xhtml"> 12 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 13 <p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.0. This release is the first point release in the 7.x series.</p> 14 15 <p>PHP 7.1.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as</p> 16 17 <ul> 18 <li><a href="https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable_types">Nullable types</a></li> 19 <li><a href="https://wiki.php.net/rfc/void_return_type">Void return type</a></li> 20 <li><a href="https://wiki.php.net/rfc/iterable">Iterable pseudo-type</a></li> 21 <li><a href="https://wiki.php.net/rfc/class_const_visibility">Class constant visiblity modifiers</a></li> 22 <li><a href="https://wiki.php.net/rfc/short_list_syntax">Square bracket syntax for <code>list()</code></a> and <a href="https://wiki.php.net/rfc/list_keys">the ability to specify keys in <code>list()</code></a></li> 23 <li><a href="https://wiki.php.net/rfc/multiple-catch">Catching multiple exceptions types</a></li> 24 <li><a href="https://wiki.php.net/rfc#php_71">Many more features and changes…</a></li> 25 </ul> 26 27 <p>For source downloads of PHP 7.1.0 please visit our <a href="http://www.php.net/downloads">downloads</a> page, Windows binaries can be found on the <a href="http://windows.php.net/download">PHP for Windows</a> site. The list of changes is recorded in the <a href="http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.1.0">ChangeLog</a>.</p> 28 29 <p>The <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/migration71.php">migration guide</a> is available in the PHP Manual. Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.</p> 30 31 <p>Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!</p> 32 </div> 33 </content> 34</entry> 35
