This is fantastic news Giuseppe! A terrific milestone representing tons of work by many people! Kudos to all involved!
Best regards, Victoria Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 28, 2019, at 6:31 AM, Giuseppe Lavagetto <glavage...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > 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
