🧨 PHP 8.4 Officially Released!

After much anticipation, PHP 8.4 has finally released its first official version. PHP 8.4 maintains a high degree of backward compatibility from PHP 8.0 to 8.4 and introduces several new features.

New/Changed Features in PHP 8.4

• curl_getinfo now supports CURLINFO_POSTTRANSFER_TIME_T
• curl_version() supports feature_list
• New functions: http_(get|clear)_last_response_headers
• New option: CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION
• New option: CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION
• New option: CURLOPT_SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT, replacing CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT
• New option: CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPCNT
• New round() function
• New functions: mb_trim, mb_ltrim, and mb_rtrim
• DateTime(Immutable) class now has createFromTimestamp method
• phpinfo now displays PHP integer size information
• DateTime(Immutable) class adds get/setMicrosecond methods
• New function: request_parse_body
• Upgraded PCRE2 with related regex changes

Syntax/Function Changes in PHP 8.4

• OpenSSL: Minimum required OpenSSL version increased to 1.1.1
• MBString: Unicode character database updated to version 16
• exit/die changed from language constructs to functions
• CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE is now deprecated
• Password Hashing: Default Bcrypt cost increased from 10 to 12
• PHP_ZTS and PHP_DEBUG constant value types changed from int to bool
• Opcache: INI changes for enabling JIT
• round() function: Invalid rounding modes will throw a \ValueError exception
• Curl: Minimum required libcurl version increased to 7.61.0

Deprecated Features in PHP 8.4

• Implicit nullable parameter declarations are deprecated
• E_STRICT constant is deprecated
• Using more than 2 parameters with session_set_save_handler() is deprecated
• CSV: The $escape parameter must be provided
• CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER is deprecated

Removed Features in PHP 8.4

• Pspell extension moved from PHP core to PECL
• IMAP extension moved from PHP core to PECL
• OCI8 and PDO-OCI extensions moved from PHP core to PECL

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