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Quote: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 and coroutines.
Added "finally" keyword.
Added simplified password hashing API.
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 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, 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://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-06-20-1

http://us2.php.net/password

Love that.

Hopefully MyBB 2.0 will be built on php 5.5

(2013-06-20, 07:56 PM)labrocca Wrote: [ -> ]http://us2.php.net/password

Love that.

Hopefully MyBB 2.0 will be built on php 5.5

If it gets developed with Laravel, it will have that feature which has been rebuilt for 5.4 as well. See password-compat by ircmaxell on github.

(2013-06-20, 07:56 PM)labrocca Wrote: [ -> ]http://us2.php.net/password

Love that.

Hopefully MyBB 2.0 will be built on php 5.5

Highly doubt it hosts are still using 5.3 sometimes even less than that crazily. It would be unwise to develop for such a recent version.

(2013-06-20, 08:40 PM)Josh H. Wrote: [ -> ]

(2013-06-20, 07:56 PM)labrocca Wrote: [ -> ]http://us2.php.net/password

Love that.

Hopefully MyBB 2.0 will be built on php 5.5

If it gets developed with Laravel, it will have that feature which has been rebuilt for 5.4 as well. See password-compat by ircmaxell on github.

Wait..so MyBB has switched to Laravel officially or is that still just part of the discussion? I know that Yii 2.0 was the officially announced framework but since it hasn't been released yet and many users felt that Yii was not the most optimal framework I know they opened the internal discussion again. I was not aware that Laravel was decided upon but if it has I'm ultra happy on that choice.

We have not announced what framework we are going to use. We're still researching in to our options.

We have not announced publicly which framework we'll be using, but several team members have announced support for Laravel. take that as you wish until there's a public announcement

Regarding 5.5, glad it's here, but sad it'll take so long before it's usable in software such as MyBB. Many hosts still run PHP 5.2 (which is just stupid given the number of security issues out there) and some have only just started to use 5.3 (which itself is nearly EOL).

I'm still using php 5.3 but plan to go 5.4 very soon. I still need to update mysql to 5.6 too.

5.4 is worth the upgrade, or so I found. It feels quicker than 5.3 (and apparently 5.5 feels even quicker according to a few users on the XenForo forums). If MySQL 5.6 is the newest release, I would hold off as I seem to remember seeing a bug report about it earlier on, though I could be mixing up version numbers.

I'm still on MyBB 1.6.7 (patched) and I don't think it's fully php 5.4 compatible.