New PHP 7.4 features I'm looking for (2020-01-23)

Thursday, 2020-01-23 13:40

PHP 7.4 was finally released in November 2019. And this time we – the Wikimedia movement lead by the Wikimedia Foundation – are much faster catching up. It took just a few days to make it available on our continious integration cluster. There is a dedicated project to make sure all our code is able to run with PHP 7.4 as soon as possible.

As always, we will keep MediaWiki and all the software we write compatible with PHP 7.2 for a while, as long as this version is still supported. Which means we won't be able to use every cool new PHP feature right away. But sooner or later we will.

Here are the PHP 7.4 features I'm happily looking forward to use the moment I can:

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