Welcome to the October edition of PHP Annotated! This recap is carefully handcrafted and brings you the most interesting developments in the PHP community over the past couple of months, so you don’t have to sift through the noise—we’ve done it for you.
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PHP 8.4 RC3 is available for testing
Release managers Calvin Buckley, Saki Takamachi, and Eric Mann have created the
PHP-8.4branch, development will now be done in the corresponding branch, and the master branch is now targeting the next version of PHP.With the final release expected on November 21, we can look forward to one more release candidate before then.
For a detailed list of what’s coming in PHP 8.4 see php.watch and stitcher.io.
Try PHP 8.4:
- On Mac, you can install it using Homebrew through the Nightly channel via shivammathur/homebrew-php.
- For other platforms, Docker images are probably the easiest way to try it out with no hassle.
- For a …