PHP 7.4.0 is now Released!

November 28, 2019 / Eric L. Barnes

Today, the PHP development team announced the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.0 and it comes with numerous improvements and new features.

Some of the highlights of this release that we’ve covered before include:

• Short Arrow Functions
• Spread Operator for Arrays
• Typed Properties

Here is a list of all the main new features:

• 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
• Several Deprecations
• Extensions Removed from the Core

For source downloads of PHP 7.4.0 please visit the PHP downloads page and the list of changes are in the ChangeLog.

There is also a migration guide available in the PHP Manual that includes a detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.