-- Sent from Hotmail Email App for Android Monday, 28 January 2019, 10:31pm +08:00 from Giuseppe Lavagetto glavage...@wikimedia.org :
>Hi all, > >as some of you might know, HHVM has decided some time ago to drop support >for PHP, choosing to only support Hack (Facebook's own PHP-derivative >language)[1]. > >This forced us to consider alternatives. In particular the last major >upgrade to PHP, PHP 7, was supposed to have greatly improved the >performance of the runtime, guaranteeing performance on par with HHVM. > >Given that early tests[2] showed promising performance, we decided to work >on PHP7 support and on its rollout in production. > >I'm happy to announce that PHP 7 is now available as a beta feature on all >wikis, and I encourage everyone to try it out and report bugs using the >#php7.2-support tag. > >After this period of beta testing, we will proceed with a progressive >rollout to a growing percentage of users, and hopefully we'll complete the >transition in the next four months. > >A huge thank you to all the people who worked hard to reach this goal! > >Thanks, > >Giuseppe >[1] https://hhvm.com/blog/2017/09/18/the-future-of-hhvm.html >[2] >https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-September/088854.html >-- >Giuseppe Lavagetto >Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation >_______________________________________________ >Wikitech-l mailing list >Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
