PHP 5.5.0 Final Release Released

Yesterday, the PHP development team announced the official release of PHP 5.5.0!

The previous major release 5.4 was released a little over a year ago (March 1, 2012), and 5.3 already in 2009 (June 30) - it's easy to notice that PHP development is gaining momentum!

Briefly about the new features can be found in the post on the official website .
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Those who are interested in more details and in Russian, I ask under the cat.


New key features

• Generators and coroutines (generators and coroutines): documentation and article on habre
• finally:
• Password Hashing API — :
• array/string dereferencing, , echo [1, 2, 3][0];, echo 'PHP'[0];
• ::class
  

  namespace TestNS;
  class ClassName {
  }
    
  echo ClassName::class; // TestNS\ClassName
  

  
  
• empty()
• foreach . PHP , foreach , Iterator::key()
• foreach list(), :
  

  $array = [
      [1, 2],
      [3, 4],
  ];
  
  foreach ($array as list($a, $b)) {
      echo "A: $a; B: $b\n";
  }
  

  
  
• Zend Optimiser+ OPcache extension. , PHP 5.2, 5.3 5.4 .
• GD, WebP

• PHP logo GUIDs :(
• Windows XP 2003
• (case insensitive) ASCII

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• 5.4 5.5
• ChangeLog