changes • New features • Deprecated features in PHP 7.0.x • Changed functions • New functions • New Classes and Interfaces • New Global Constants • Changes in SAPI Modules • Removed Extensions and SAPIs • Other Changes Check out full list at: http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.php
in 2010 • Main cause for discontinuation: Unicode support by default • Other features were introduced in PHP 5.3 RFC about naming PHP7 rather than PHP6: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6
codepoint escape syntax • Closure::call() • Filtered unserialize() • … Check out full list of New Features at: http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.new-features.php
• New functions • New global constants • Backward incompatible changes • Deprecated features in PHP 7.1.x • Changed functions • Other changes • Windows Support Check out full list at: http://php.net/manual/en/migration71.php
for keys in list() • Support for negative string offsets • Asynchronous signal handling • … Check out full list for PHP7.1 New Features at: http://php.net/manual/en/migration71.new-features.php