PHP 8.4.0 RC1 released
PHP 8.4's first release candidate has been released and features enhancements to BcMath, DOM, MBString, Opcache, PHPDBG, PCRE, PDO_PGSQL, SimpleXML, SOAP, SPL, Standard, TSRM, Windows, and ZIP. BcMath's speed has improved, while ext/bcmath has solved scale overflow and included bcdivmod. Debugging has been corrected, as have DOM properties. MBString has been upgraded to Unicode 16.0. PHPDBG has resolved issues with PCRE, PDO_PGSQL, and PQclosePrepare. Reflection has added the missing ReflectionProperty::hasHook[s]() methods are now fixed, SimpleXML has segmentation errors fixed, SOAP has issues solved, and TSRM prevents unrelated handles from being closed. Windows has been addressed, and Zip has added ZipArchive::ER_TRUNCATED_ZIP to libzip 1.11.
PHP 8.4.0 RC1 released
A new software update is available: PHP 8.4.0 RC1 released