1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> 3 <title>PHP 7.4.0 Released!</title> 4 <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2019.php#2019-11-28-1</id> 5 <published>2019-11-28T09:26:13+00:00</published> 6 <updated>2019-11-28T09:26:13+00:00</updated> 7 <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#id2019-11-28-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/> 8 <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2019.php#2019-11-28-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/> 9 <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/> 10 <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/> 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 7.4.0. 14 This release marks the fourth feature update to the PHP 7 series.</p> 15 16 <p>PHP 7.4.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:</p> 17 18 <ul> 19 20 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/migration74.new-features.php#migration74.new-features.core.typed-properties">Typed Properties</a></li> 21 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/migration74.new-features.php#migration74.new-features.core.arrow-functions">Arrow Functions</a></li> 22 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/migration74.new-features.php#migration74.new-features.core.type-variance">Limited Return Type Covariance and Argument Type Contravariance</a></li> 23 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/migration74.new-features.php#migration74.new-features.core.unpack-inside-array">Unpacking Inside Arrays</a></li> 24 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/migration74.new-features.php#migration74.new-features.core.numeric-literal-separator">Numeric Literal Separator</a></li> 25 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/migration74.new-features.php#migration74.new-features.core.weakreference">Weak References</a></li> 26 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/migration74.new-features.php#migration74.new-features.core.tostring-exceptions">Allow Exceptions from __toString()</a></li> 27 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/opcache.configuration.php#ini.opcache.preload">Opcache Preloading</a></li> 28 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/migration74.deprecated.php">Several Deprecations</a></li> 29 <li><a href="https://www.php.net/manual/migration74.removed-extensions.php">Extensions Removed from the Core</a></li> 30 </ul> 31 32 <p>For source downloads of PHP 7.4.0 please visit our <a href="http://www.php.net/downloads">downloads</a> page 33 Windows binaries can be found on the <a href="http://windows.php.net/download">PHP for Windows</a> site. 34 The list of changes is recorded in the <a href="http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.4.0">ChangeLog</a>.</p> 35 36 <p>The <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/migration74.php">migration guide</a> is available in the PHP Manual. 37 Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.</p> 38 39 <p>Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!</p> 40 </div> 41 </content> 42</entry> 43
