PHP Digest number 121 (November 20 - December 10, 2017)

Fresh selection with links to news and materials. In the release: PHP 7.2.0, Symfony 4 and other releases, a sentence from PHP Internals, framework materials, asynchronous PHP, a portion of useful tools, and much more. Enjoy reading!

News and Releases

PHP 7.2.0 - The long-awaited major release of PHP delivered strictly on schedule. 236 committers and 4456 commits. Thanks to all contributors and release managers for their work! The new version of the interpreter has improved performance, as well as a number of other improvements:
→ Full list of changes

Learn more about how to install PHP 7.2 on various operating systems.
Symfony 4 - Not just an update, but a rethought framework.
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- Automated Package Installation with Symfony Flex
- Auto-registered and auto-connected services
- Out-of-box microframe: Symfony 4 application is 70% smaller than Symfony 3
- Webpack Encore to work with frontend
- And many other improvements.
PhpStorm 2017.3 Available
PSR-15 Server Request Handlers - The standard for request handlers and middleware has passed into the review stage.
PHP 7.0.26
PHP 7.1.12
Symfony Moscow Meetup # 14 - To be held on December 14, visiting Rambler & Co

Php internals

RFC: Explicit call-site pass-by-reference - Great offer from Nikita Popov. At the moment, the fact that a function takes an argument by reference is indicated only in the definition of the function itself:
```
function inc(&$num) { $num++; } $i = 0; inc($i); var_dump($i); // int(1) 
```
It is proposed to make it possible to explicitly indicate transmission by reference. Thereby warning the developer that the transferred variable will change:
```
 function inc(&$num) { $num++; } $i = 0; inc(&$i); var_dump($i); // int(1) 
```

Instruments

yiisoft / di - Experimental framework-independent PSR-11-compatible DI container and injector from the Yii team.
PHPStan 0.9 - Excellent static analyzer for PHP. More information about the release of 0.9 in the post of the author. Online sandbox to check the code.
Indatus / trucker - Package for using remote API resources (usually RESTful) as models in ActiveResource style.
coraxster / flysystem-owncloud , coraxster / flysystem-aws-s3-v3-minio - A couple of providers for Flysystem: Owncloud and Minio respectively. Sent by corax .
acelot / automapper - Avtomapery data for PHP 7. Sent by eee .
javibravo / simpleue - Simple queue and workers with support for AWS SQS, Redis, Beanstalkd as a backend.
rectorphp / rector - A tool for updating your AST based applications.
apioo / fusio - Open PHP API Management Platform.
TinyLara / TinyLara - Simple microframework.
arvenil / ninja-mutex - Implementing a mutex for PHP with support for various adapters (flock, memcache, mysql, redis, ...).