PHP 7.4.0 Released!

Who is running @php_official on Twitter? I'd really prefer to retweet a
release announcement from there, but they always seem to be lagging days
behind.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP
7.4.0. This release marks the fourth feature update to the PHP 7 series.

PHP 7.4.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:

• Typed Properties
• Arrow Functions
• Limited Return Type Covariance and Argument Type Contravariance
• Unpacking Inside Arrays
• Numeric Literal Separator
• Weak References
• Allow Exceptions from __toString()
• Opcache Preloading

There are also several deprecations, and some extensions have been removed
from
the core distribution.

For source downloads of PHP 7.4.0 please visit our downloads page.
Windows binaries can be found on the PHP for Windows site. The list of
changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

A migration guide is available in the PHP Manual. Please consult it for the
detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.

Release Announcement: http://php.net/releases/7_4_0.php
Downloads: http://www.php.net/downloads
Windows downloads: http://windows.php.net/download
Changelog: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.4.0
Migration guide: http://php.net/manual/migration74.php

Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!

Derick Rethans and Peter Kokot

P.S. Below is the verification information for the downloads, which is
also available on
https://gist.github.com/derickr/754720a595d560c26be43375e81bee6b.

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Congrats!

Derick Rethans in php.internals (Thu, 28 Nov 2019 09:36:15 +0000 (GMT)):

Release Announcement: http://php.net/releases/7_4_0.php
Downloads: http://www.php.net/downloads
Windows downloads: http://windows.php.net/download
Changelog: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.4.0
Migration guide: http://php.net/manual/migration74.php

Is not it time to use https in the release announcements?

Jan