Release Candidate 1 for PHP 8.4 is available.

The first release candidate of PHP 8.4 has been made public by the PHP team! You can start getting ready for PHP 8.4 even if the general availability (GA) of v8.4.0 is still two months away (anticipated on November 21). To make sure you're prepared, familiarize yourself with the new features, the upgrade path, and important dates. ?? In our piece A Look at What's Coming to PHP 8.4, we've compiled the standout features of PHP 8.4.

#What New Features are in PHP 8.4?

PHP 8.4 is a minor release with some exciting new features like new array find methods, property hooks, and more. Here are some of the highlight features coming to PHP 8.4:

• Add request_parse_body() function that allows parsing RFC1867 (multipart) requests in non-POST HTTP requests.

• Class instantiation without extra parenthesis
• Added the #[\Deprecated] attribute (RFC)
• Property Hooks
• Asymmetric property visibility
• Lazy objects
• Added http_get_last_response_headers() and http_clear_last_response_headers() functions (RFC)
• Added function fpow() following rules of IEEE 754 (RFC)
• New Array Find Functions
• And more...

Check out the upgrading document for the complete list of new features.

#Timeline

PHP 8.4 is out of beta and in the release candidate phase. Most importantly, the GA release is expected on November 21st! We're excited to get our hands on this release and remove all the extra parenthesis around new expressions with constructor arguments ??