PHP 8.4

[ruudk]

Summary

PHP 8.4 will be released at the end of this year (2024).

Desired Behavior

• Start testing the nightly builds
• Allow people to test builds on PHP 8.4
• Aim for a release of the extension within a week after the official tagged release

Additional context

https://php.watch/versions/8.4

[workato-integration]

https://new-relic.atlassian.net/browse/NR-276152

[ruudk]

PHP 8.4.0 Alpha1 is available for testing.

https://x.com/s_panteleev/status/1809334523219378645?s=12&t=c-58RazBKazGNsjxyEoO2g

[ruudk]

PHP 8.4.0 beta 5 was released 2 days ago.

https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-8.4.0beta5

[willitscale]

#980

[workato-integration]

The problem is a duplicate of an existing issue.

[workato-integration]

The problem is a duplicate of an existing issue.

[ruudk]

Should be reopened

[workato-integration]

Work has been completed on this issue.

[ruudk]

https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-8.4.0

[mbabker]

You know, I'm pretty sure most customers aren't expecting day-0 support for new major PHP releases. But, the fact that New Relic seems to ignore the fact that new versions are released annually at the end of November or beginning of December with a beta period starting in late July to early August, and from the outside looking in it would appear they don't even start looking at next version support until weeks after the stable release is just a constant source of frustration as a customer. A lot of one-person OSS projects are able to proactively add support for the next release. Many companies (some of them being in the same space as New Relic) are able to proactively add support for the next release. So what is it about PHP that causes New Relic to kick the can down the road?

[ruudk]

And now it's officially released: https://www.php.net/archive/2024.php#2024-11-21-4 🎉 🐘 💙

[heldchen]

if past versions are any indication, we'll get 8.4 support in march 2025.