PHP 7.0.0 Released

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.0.0. 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

1. Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5.6
2. Significantly reduced memory usage
3. Abstract Syntax Tree
4. Consistent 64-bit support
5. Improved Exception hierarchy
6. Many fatal errors converted to Exceptions
7. Secure random number generator
8. Removed old and unsupported SAPIs and extensions
9. The null coalescing operator (??)
10. Return and Scalar Type Declarations
11. Anonymous Classes
12. Zero cost asserts