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15 Oct 2015

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.0 RC 5. This is the tenth pre-release of the new PHP 7 major series. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs and incompatibilities in https://bugs.php.net/.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!

PHP 7.0.0 RC 5 contains fixes for 11 reported bugs and over 100 commits with various improvements.

PHP 7.0.0 comes with new version of the Zend Engine with features such as (incomplete list):

Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6

Consistent 64-bit support

Many fatal errors are now Exceptions

Removal of old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions

The null coalescing operator (??)

Combined comparison Operator (<=>)

Return Type Declarations

Scalar Type Declarations

Anonymous Classes

For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the migration guide for a complete list of upgrading notes. NEWS and UPGRADING files can also be found in the release archive.

For source downloads of PHP 7.0.0 RC 5 please visit the download page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/qa/.

The next release will be RC 6, which is to be released on the 29th of October. You can also read the full list of planned releases on our wiki.

Source : PHP: News Archive - 2015

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