1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 3 <title>PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 2 Released</title> 4 <id>http://php.net/archive/2017.php#id2017-06-22-1</id> 5 <published>2017-06-22T11:00:00+00:00</published> 6 <updated>2017-06-22T11:00:00+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#id2017-06-22-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> 10 <link href="http://php.net/archive/2017.php#id2017-06-22-1" 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 7.2.0 Alpha 2. 14 This release contains fixes and improvements relative to Alpha 1. 15 All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, 16 and report any bugs and incompatibilities in the 17 <a href="https://bugs.php.net/">bug tracking system</a>.</p> 18 19 <p><strong>THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!</strong></p> 20 21 <p>For information on new features and other changes, you can read the 22 <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.2.0alpha2/NEWS">NEWS</a> file, 23 or the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.2.0alpha2/UPGRADING">UPGRADING</a> file 24 for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.</p> 25 26 <p>For source downloads of PHP 7.2.0 Alpha 2 please visit the <a href="https://downloads.php.net/~pollita/">download</a> page, 27 Windows sources and binaries can be found on <a href="http://windows.php.net/qa/">windows.php.net/qa/</a>.</p> 28 29 <p>The third and final alpha will be released on the 6th of July. You can also read the full list of planned releases on our 30 <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php72#timetable">wiki</a>.</p> 31 32 <p>Thank you for helping us make PHP better.</p> 33 </div> 34 </content> 35</entry> 36