PHP 5.4.0 released

[James McGlinn]

PHP 5.4.0 released!

[01-Mar-2012]

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.0. This release is a major leap forward in the 5.x series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

Some of the key new features include: traits, a shortened array syntax, a built-in webserver for testing purposes and more. PHP 5.4.0 significantly improves performance, memory footprint and fixes over 100 bugs.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.3 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.4.0.

Further details about the PHP 5.4.0 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog.

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James McGlinn
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[Todd Martin]

Hi James

Thanks for the heads up. I like the new "traits" feature. It is essentially interface delegation, which is something I've found lacking in PHP previously. I also like the way the visibility of trait methods can be reduced in the parent class.

Todd.

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[Jochen Daum]

yehaa!!

looking forward to $x = getMeArray()[5];

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[Simon J Welsh]

One of the things from the announcement that I really like in 5.4 is array dereferencing and chaining on object creation. Ie, things like (new myObject([1, 3, 6, 213]))->toArray()[3].

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[Alexei Tenitski]

Here is a good summary of changes:
http://ilia.ws/files/confoo_php54.pdf

Cheers,
Alexei

[David Neilsen]

Pretty awesome features, now we just have to wait another year before we can start using them in production ;)

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