This is just a short post:
PHP released version 7.1 yesterday. Congratulations to all those who worked so hard to get this version out of the door. Especial congratulations to Davey Shafik and Joe Watkins, the release managers, and to Anatol Belski who mentored them.
This comes almost exactly a year after the GA release of 7.0, which was a huge leap forwards in terms of functionality and performance (websites are a lot faster on 7.0 than they were on 5.6). It more than justified bumping the major version number from 5.x to 7.x.
7.1 isn't quite such a big step-change, but it introduces some great new language features (like nullable types, and allowing methods to have a void return type), and I'm told introduces some smaller performance enhancements of its own.
I like to think of myself as an early adopter. I had hoped to get 7.1 installed on the webserver that runs this site yesterday, the day of release. In the end, the release was too late in the day, but it's now been done. Here you go:
If I find any bugs, either in PHP 7.1, or in any of the website software I use (such as Drupal) compatability with PHP 7.1, needless to say I'll search to see if others have already found them, and report them if necessary.
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