PHP 7 drops first release candidate
Faster PHP is approaching. PHP 7.0.0, which has been promoted as a much quicker upgrade to the server-side scripting language, has just gone into a release candidate stage, bringing its general availability even closer to fruition.
Available today, the release candidate is the sixth pre-release of the PHP 7 major series, according to PHP.net. Once again, PHP proponents are advising that this latest release is not to be used in production, as it's just a development preview.
"PHP 7.0.0 RC 1 contains fixes for 27 reported bugs and altogether over 200 commits with various stability improvements for database, array, assert, streams, and other functionality," PHP.net said in its bulletin.
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