PHP 8.3 Released!

Published On23 Nov 2023

PHP 8.3 Released

The first generally-available release for PHP 8.3, the 2023's major update to PHP, was released today.

PHP 8.3 is largely backward-compatible with PHP 8.0 through 8.3, and brings a handful of new features such as type support for class constants, new json_encode function, dynamic class constant fetch support, and more. PHP 8.3 also brings some quality-of-life improvements and a handful of deprecations as well.

Install or Upgrade to PHP 8.3

Now that PHP 8.3.0 is tagged, PHP 8.3 packages are available to use from the usual sources.

Docker images available at Docker Hub, and Windows binaries at windows.php.net.

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