php 7.0.12,欢迎使用PHP 7.4.0（我从7.3.12升级）

Dear PHP,

I am using you since... maybe 5.3 and you already helped me a lot on my nerd journey. Today I open php.net and I forgot that Nov 28 is the historical day. It's the launch of PHP 7.4.0.

Congrats to all PHP core team, QA team and all others people that make this happen.

Currently I have PHP 7.3.12 running on my CentOS 7.7 using Remi repo. How to update? I just do this.

yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74

yum update

then

php -v

then see below

[root@sony]# php -v

PHP 7.4.0 (cli) (built: Nov 26 2019 20:13:36) ( NTS )

Copyright (c) The PHP Group

Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies

with Zend OPcache v7.4.0, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

Ow nice :)

PHP 7.4.0 comes with several improvements and new features.

Typed Properties

Arrow Functions

Limited Return Type Covariance and Argument Type Contravariance

Unpacking Inside Arrays

Numeric Literal Separator

Weak References

Allow Exceptions from __toString()

Opcache Preloading

Several Deprecations

Extensions Removed from the Core

Ow ow, someday I will use those new things step-by-step as needed.

Thank you PHP.

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