On November 28th, the PHP Team announced the release of the last version of the php engine :  PHP 7.4
(https://www.php.net/releases/7_4_0.php)

This new version which will be the last version of the 7.X branch before the new PHP 8 brings a not of new featurs / functions and also a code execution speedup which could make your website render faster.

You can aldready use the PHP 7.4 Engine on all our shared hosting accounts, just select if from the PHP Selector in your DirectAdmin panel.
Please first check the compatiliby of your scripts before switching of php engine !

The complete list of changes, depreciations and new functions is available here : https://wiki.php.net/rfc#php_74     

The most interesting feature is the preloading function, allowing you to load a set of php files and maintain them in memory.
More details and code sample available on  php.net website :  https://wiki.php.net/rfc/preload




Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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