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The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.1.0. This release marks the latest minor release of the PHP language.
PHP 8.1 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:
Take a look at the PHP 8.1 Announcement Addendum for more information.
Enumerations
Readonly properties
Fibers
Pure Intersection Types
never return type
First-class Callable Syntax
"final" modifier for class constants
New fsync and fdatasync functions
New array_is_list function
Explicit Octal numeral notation
And much much more...
The migration guide is available in the PHP Manual. Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.
Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!