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PHP Released v7.2.0 Beta 1

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Yesterday, the PHP team released the first beta of the 7.2.0 release. From the announcement this version builds on previous releases with the following:

  • The much-anticipated Sodium extension
  • Opcache improvements
  • Countable support for DOMNodeList and DOMNamedNodeMap
  • Improved handling for invalid UTF8 in json_decode()
  • And many bugfixes…

If you have the ability, they encourage you to start testing this version and the second beta will release on August 3rd.

For more information on this release check out the following resources:

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