PHP 7.2 Release Date Time Table - 4 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 83

By Manuel Lemos

Now that PHP 7.2 release managers were elected, the time table for each alpha, beta, release candidate and general availablity dates were announced. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 83 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

In this episode they also talked about the problem of casting objects to scalars passed by reference to functions, supporting float data types in PDO, implementing a better interface for serializing objects, and improvements for the filter extension.

They also talked about PHP tutorial articles on using dynClass as an improvement to PHP stdClass, installing Laravel 5 on Ubuntu and the problems of Chrome trying to block bogus Cross-Site Scripting security attacks.

This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 4 minute video of the summary.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.