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Windows DLLs for most PECL extensions are back!

@meShivamMathur has been working on GitHub Actions to automate the builds of these extensions.

The next step is automating these builds so that extension authors can include steps in their release actions as well!

🔒 The PHP project has decided to extend security support for versions from one to two years.

💡 The same RFC clarifies a few other items, such as when minor features can be introduced during the release process.

📜 You can read the updated document at: github.com/php/policies/b…

Statement on glibc/iconv Vulnerability

Recently, a bug in glibc version 2.39 and older (CVE-2024-2961) was uncovered where a buffer overflow in character set conversions to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set affects PHP.

Read our full statement at php.net/archive/2024.p…

⛔ As of November 26, PHP 8.0 is no longer supported, and PHP 8.1 is in security support mode.

🆙 Consider upgrading to PHP 8.2 or higher.

To read more about how to upgrade:

🔗 php.net/migration81
🔗 php.net/migration82
🔗 php.net/migration83

🥳 PHP 8.3 Released!

In this new release, we have:

⌨️ Typed Class Constants
🏛️ Dynamic Class Content Fetch
♻️ A New [#Override] Attribute
➕ …and more!

👓 Read all about it on: php.net/releases/8.3/e…

🔗 php.net/ChangeLog-8#8.…
📦 php.net/downloads