PHP 7.2 Officially Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 30 November 2017 at 07:07 AM EST. 1 Comment
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PHP 7.2 has made it out on time as the latest annual feature update to the PHP7 programming language.

PHP 7.2 comes with the new libsodium extension for a modern crypto API while mcrypt was removed, there is improved TLS constants, object type hint support, and a few other minor language changes to this PHP 7 update. We've also seen some performance improvements with PHP 7.2 over PHP 7.1/7.0.

More details on the PHP 7.2 changes via the official release announcement at PHP.net.
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