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Phive: Secure, Easy, and Contained Phar Manager

Phive: Secure, Easy, and Contained Phar Manager

Phive is a PHP tool to easily install, validate, and update Phar archives in a PHP application.
Directory Uploads in PHP 8.1

Directory Uploads in PHP 8.1

With PHP 8.1, it is possible to upload an entire folder from the browser using the `webkitdirectory` attribute.
Writing better Regular Expressions in PHP

Writing better Regular Expressions in PHP

How to write more readable, self-explanatory, and effective regular expressions in PHP.
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Drupal security updates 7.82, 8.9.17, 9.1.11, and 9.2.2 released with `Archive_Tar` library updates

Drupal security updates 7.82, 8.9.17, 9.1.11, and 9.2.2 released with `Archive_Tar` library updates

Drupal security updates 7.82, 8.9.17, 9.1.11, and 9.2.2 are released with the dependency `Archive_Tar` updated to 1.4.14, which fixes a symlink path traversal vulnerability.
PHP 8.1 reached Feature-Freeze

PHP 8.1 reached Feature-Freeze

PHP 8.1 reached its feature-freeze today. No new RFCs will made for PHP 8.1, and maintainers will soon branch off PHP 8.1.
PHP 8.1 Alpha 1 Releases on June 10

PHP 8.1 Alpha 1 Releases on June 10

The first PHP 8.1 development release, Alpha 1, releases on June 10, 2021.
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PHP Versions and Changes

8.1

Release Date2021-11-25
Version StatusFuture Release

PHP 8.1 is the next major PHP version, up for release on November 2021.

PHP 8.1 will bring Enums, Fibers, never return type, Intersection Types, and more!

8.0

Release Date2020-11-26
Version StatusSupported (Latest)

PHP 8.0, on the 25th year of PHP history, brings several important features such as Union Types, JIT, Constructor Property Promotion, Match Syntax, Named Parameters, and several more performance, syntax, and quality-of-life improvements.

7.4

Release Date2019-11-28
Version StatusSupported

PHP 7.4, the final release in the PHP 7.x series. PHP 7.4 brings typed properties, underscore numeric separator, and other minor improvements to PHP.

7.3

Release Date2018-12-06
Version StatusSecurity-Fixes Only

Heredoc/nowdoc syntax improvements and a bunch of legacy code deprecations.

7.2

Release Date2017-11-30
Version StatusUnsupported

Argon2 password hashing support, class constant visibility, object type, and many more.

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