Download PHP 7.2.0

PHP calls itself a hypertext pre-processor and is mainly used to generate dynamic content on web pages. This is often done in combination with a database program, such as MySQL, Firebird, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or SQLite. But you can also use PHP for other cases deployment, such as scripting on the command line. The developers released version 7.2.0 a few days ago with the following announcement:

PHP 7.2.0 Released

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.0. This release marks the second feature update to the PHP 7 series.

PHP 7.2.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as

• Convert numeric keys into object/array casts
• Counting of non-countable objects
• Object type hint
• HashContext as Object
• argon2 in password hash
• Improve TLS constants to sane values
• mcrypt extension removed
• New sodium extension

For source downloads of PHP 7.2.0 please visit our downloads page Windows binaries can be found on the PHP for Windows site. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The migration guide is available in the PHP Manual. Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.

Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!