PHP 5.5 منتشر شد

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PHP 5.5.0 released. 20-Jun-2013 The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0. This release includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.
The key features of PHP 5.5.0 include:


Added generators (http://www.php.net/generators) and coroutines.
Added "finally" (http://www.php.net/exceptions) keyword.
Added simplified password hashing API (http://www.php.net/password).
Added support for constant array/string dereferencing.
Added Class Name Resolution As Scalar Via "class" Keyword
Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions
Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach
Added support for list in foreach
Added Zend Opcache extension and enable building it by default.
The GD library has been upgraded to version 2.1 adding new functions and improve existing functionality.
A lot more improvements and fixes

Changes that affect compatibility:


PHP logo GUIDs (http://www.php.net/php-logo-guid) have been removed
Windows XP and 2003 support dropped
Case insensitivity is no longer locale specific. All case insensitive matching for function, class and constant names is now performed in a locale independent manner according to ASCII rules

For users upgrading from PHP 5.4 there is a migration guide available here (http://php.net/migration55), detailing the changes between PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5.0.
For a full list of changes in PHP 5.5.0, see the ChangeLog (http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.5.0).





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