Wednesday, September 28, 2011

PHP 5.4 beta1 released

What's news?

  • Added new json_encode() option JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE.
  • Added support for object-oriented session handlers.
  • ext/mysql, mysqli and pdo_mysql now use mysqlnd by default.
  • Removed the timezone guessing algorithm in case the timezone isn't set with date.timezone or date_default_timezone_set(). Instead of a guessed timezone, "UTC" is now used instead.
  • Added callable typehint.

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If you find a bug, report it to the QA mailing list and/or the PHP bug tracker.

Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes.

I have been looking forward to the stable appearance.