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1. PHP 8.4.1 Released!

   The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.4.1. This release marks the latest minor release of the PHP language.

   PHP 8.4 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:

   • Property Hooks
   • Asymmetric Property Visibility
   • Lazy Objects
   • PDO driver-specific subclasses
   • BCMath object type
   • And much much more...

   For source downloads of PHP 8.4.1 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

   The migration guide is available in the PHP Manual. Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.

   Kudos to all the contributors and supporters!

2. PHP 8.1.31 Released!

   The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.1.31. This is a security release.

   All PHP 8.1 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

   For source downloads of PHP 8.1.31 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

3. PHP 8.3.14 Released!

   The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.3.14. This is a security release.

   All PHP 8.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

   For source downloads of PHP 8.3.14 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

4. PHP 8.2.26 Released!

   The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.2.26. This is a security release.

   All PHP 8.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

   For source downloads of PHP 8.2.26 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

5. PHP 8.4.0 RC4 available for testing

   The PHP team is pleased to announce the release of PHP 8.4.0, RC4. This is the fourth release candidate, continuing the PHP 8.4 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki.

   For source downloads of PHP 8.4.0, RC4 please visit the download page.

   Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.

   Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.

   For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive.

   The next release will be the production-ready, general availability release, planned for 21 November 2024.

   The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.

   Thank you for helping us make PHP better.