1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 3 <title>PHP 7.4.0beta2 released!</title> 4 <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2019.php#2019-08-08-1</id> 5 <published>2019-08-08T08:15:01+00:00</published> 6 <updated>2019-08-08T08:15:01+00:00</updated> 7 <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#id2019-08-08-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> 8 <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2019.php#2019-08-08-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> 9 <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> 10 <content type="xhtml"> 11 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 12 <p> 13 The PHP team is glad to announce the second beta release of PHP 7.4: PHP 14 7.4.0beta2. This continues the PHP 7.4 release cycle, the rough outline of 15 which is specified in the <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php74">PHP 16 Wiki</a>. 17 </p> 18 19 <p> 20 For source downloads of PHP 7.4.0beta2 please visit the 21 <a href="https://downloads.php.net/~derick">download page</a>. 22 </p> 23 24 <p> 25 Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the <a href="https://bugs.php.net">bug reporting system</a>. 26 </p> 27 28 <p> 29 <b>Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test 30 version.</b> 31 </p> 32 33 <p> 34 For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the 35 <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0beta2/NEWS">NEWS</a> 36 file, or the 37 <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-7.4.0beta2/UPGRADING">UPGRADING</a> 38 file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in 39 the release archive. 40 </p> 41 42 <p> 43 The next release would be <b>Beta 3</b>, planned for August 22nd. 44 </p> 45 46 <p> 47 The signatures for the release can be found in 48 <a href="https://gist.github.com/derickr/4cec1996b1110f6127b51b90d9426bf9">the 49 manifest</a> or on <a href="https://qa.php.net/">the QA site</a>. 50 </p> 51 52 <p>Thank you for helping us make PHP better.</p> 53 </div> 54 </content> 55</entry> 56
