PHP 8.6: What's New, What's Going Away, and What It's Like to Ship It

Joe Ferguson, one of the PHP 8.6 Release Managers, gives an overview of the new version and what it means for the projects you maintain.

The talk covers the new features and improvements – where the language is heading, which additions are likely to change how you write PHP day-to-day, and which ones are quieter but still worth knowing about.

It also looks at the other side of a release: the deprecations. PHP 8.6 retires a fair amount, and some of it still appears in older codebases. We'll go through what's changing, how to spot it in your own projects, and how to approach an upgrade without a rewrite.

Along the way, Joe shares what a first year as Release Manager looks like from the inside, and what it taught him about how PHP gets made.

Vorkenntnisse

• Advanced knowledge of PHP
  
• Intermediate Git knowledge

Lernziele

• New Features in PHP 8.6
  
• New Deprecations in PHP 8.6
  
• A look into the PHP sausage factory