Versie 5.5.0 van PHP is uitgebracht. PHP is een een recursief acroniem en staat voor PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Het wordt voornamelijk gebruikt om op webservers dynamische webpagina's te creëren, vaak in combinatie met databaseprogramma's. Deze update bevat zo'n dertig bugfixes en een fix voor een beveiligingsprobleem. Hieronder is de aankondiging van deze release te vinden, die verder doorlinkt naar het complete changelog.
PHP 5.5.0 released.
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0. This release includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.
The key features of PHP 5.5.0 include:Changes that affect compatibility:
- Added generators and coroutines.
- Added the finally keyword.
- Added a simplified password hashing API.
- Added support for constant array/string dereferencing.
- Added scalar class name resolution via ::class.
- Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions.
- Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach.
- Added support for list() constructs in foreach statements.
- Added the Zend OPcache extension for opcode caching.
- The GD library has been upgraded to version 2.1 adding new functions and improving existing functionality.
- A lot more improvements and fixes.
For users upgrading from PHP 5.4, a migration guide is available detailing the changes between 5.4 and 5.5.0. For a full list of changes in PHP 5.5.0, see the ChangeLog.
- PHP logo GUIDs have been removed.
- Windows XP and 2003 support dropped.
- Case insensitivity is no longer locale specific. All case insensitive matching for function, class and constant names is now performed in a locale independent manner according to ASCII rules.