Let’s have a peak into the New PHP 8 insights, the upcoming brand new upgrade!!
“PHP is still the world’s most popular server side language for website development. With an probable 80% market share, PHP is everywhere. PHP has been growing since, and the next foremost releases are PHP 8.0.0 and the JIT (Just in time) compilation. Let’s make a dive at these”
The previous main version of PHP was 7.0.0. This release had been a key milestone with significantly enhanced performance and lesser memory usage. Since 7.0 There have been two releases combining features and resolved issues: 7.1 in 2016 and 7.2 in 2017
The releasing date of new PHP 8.0 is not yet programmed, but as it is an important upgrade for the famous server-side language it will take some time. Although rumors heard and according to some speculations at the SymfonyCon the release date of PHP 8.0.0 will be September 23rd, 2021.
PHP 8 update will have lots of changes where it mainly features the following changes
- Backward Incompatible Changes
- New Features
- Changes in SAPI modules
- Deprecated Functionality
- Changed Functions
- New Functions
- New Classes and Interfaces
- Removed Extensions and SAPIs
- Other Changes to Extensions
- Some New Global Constants
- Changes to INI File Handling
- Windows Support
- Other Changes
- Major Performance Improvements
