PHP 7.0.0 officially released, twice as fast as PHP 5.6_PHP Tutorial

PHP 7.0.0 is officially released, twice as fast as PHP 5.6

PHP 7 is officially released. PHP 7.0.0 includes the latest version of Zend Engine, including the following features:

• Improved performance: PHP 7 is twice as fast as PHP 5.6

• Significantly reduces memory usage

• Abstract syntax tree

• 64-bit supported

• Many major errors can be handled with exceptions

• Old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions removed

• Secure random number generator

• null merge operator (??)

• Combined comparison operators (<=>)

• Scalar type declaration

• Anonymous class

Download:

• php-7.0.0.tar.bz2 (sig) [13,648Kb]

• php-7.0.0.tar.gz (sig) [17,797Kb]

• php-7.0.0.tar.xz (sig) [11,213Kb]

• Windows downloads

Please see the update log for detailed improvements.