PHP Digest No. 93 - interesting news, materials and tools (September 12 - 25, 2016)



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    News and Releases


    • PHP 7.1.0 RC 2 - Second release candidate delivered on schedule. Meanwhile, a migration guide from 7.0 to 7.1 is already available .
    • PHP 5.6.26 , PHP 7.0.11 - Updates of current branches with fixes for security problems. Closed 6 vulnerabilities, as well as a number of other errors.
    • HHVM 3.15 - Fresh LTS release of an alternative PHP virtual machine. Added shmop, pg-sql, and scrypt extensions, as well as improved garbage collection, overall performance and bug fixes.
    • Behat 3.2.0 - Update of the popular BDD framework.

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    • RFC: Namespace-scoped declares - Strong type checking has been added in PHP 7.0, however, enabling this feature involves adding a line declare (strict_types=1);to each file. Now it is proposed to make it possible to declare strictness at the namespace level:

      // bootstrap.php
      namespace_declare('Vendor\Lib', ['strict_types' => 1]);
      namespace_declare('Vendor\Lib\Sub\Name\Space', ['strict_types' => 0]);
      

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