On November 26th 2015, the PHP group published the eighth release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 8 contains fixes for 11 reported bugs. (…) This release candidate prepares the short jump to the RTM. If no major issues appear, the 7.0.0 general availability (GA) release will be brought out on December 3rd. You can also read the full list of planned releases on our wiki. ...
On November 12th 2015, the PHP group published the seventh release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 7 contains fixes for 17 reported bugs. (…) This release candidate is unplanned and ships instead of the announced RTM for the reasons of yet additional quality improvement. If no major issues appear within the usual two-week test period, the 7.0.0 general availability (GA) release will be brought out. You can also read the full list of planned releases on our wiki. ...
On October 29th 2015, the PHP group published the sixth release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 6 contains fixes for 10 reported bugs and marks the end of the pre-release circle. Packages of PHP 7.0-RC6 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Disclaimer : THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW (from a PHP upstream and from a Dotdeb/Debian packaging perspectives) - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! ...
On October 15th 2015, the PHP group published the fifth release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 5 contains fixes for 11 reported bugs and over 100 commits with various improvements. Packages of PHP 7.0-RC5 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Disclaimer : THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW (from a PHP upstream and from a Dotdeb/Debian packaging perspectives) - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! ...
On October 1st 2015, the PHP group published the fourth release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 4 contains fixes for 22 reported bugs and over 100 commits with various improvements. Packages of PHP 7.0-RC4 are now available for Debian 8 “Jessie” on amd64 and i386 architectures. Disclaimer : THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW (from a PHP upstream and from a Dotdeb/Debian packaging perspectives) - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION! ...
On September 17th 2015, the PHP group published the third release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 3 contains fixes for 19 reported bugs and over 100 commits with various improvements. This release provides a noticeable new Opcache feature which makes possible to move PHP code pages into the huge memory pages. It can be enabled with opcache.huge_code_pages=1 in php.ini and can bring about 2% performance gain on supported platforms. Please help us to test this feature by enabling it and providing feedback. ...
On September 4th 2015, the PHP group published the second release candidate of the upcoming new major branch, PHP 7 : PHP 7.0.0 RC 2 contains fixes for 28 reported bugs, 7 of which are security related, and altogether over 250 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 UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. ...