On 3rd Dec 2015 the PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.0. Nethub as an official Hong Kong mirror site of PHP.NET now supports PHP 7 by commercial web hosting and VPS hosting services, which is the first web hosting provider supporting PHP 7 in Hong Kong.
This release marks the start of the new major PHP 7 series, PHP 7.0.0 comes with a new version of the Zend Engine, numerous improvements and new features such as
- Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6
- Significantly reduced memory usage
- Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
- Consistent 64-bit support
- Improved Exception hierarchy
- Many fatal errors converted to Exceptions
- Secure random number generator
- Removed old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions
- The null coalescing operator (??)
- Return and Scalar Type Declarations
- Anonymous Classes
- Zero cost asserts
