PHP 7.1, the latest minor version of PHP, was released on December 1st. We discuss some things that went on behind-the-scenes that brought this new version to a stable release and we look at some new featu

PHP has been seeing more regular releases recently - what changed?

• PHP adheres to semantic versioning more closely now. In the past this was not the case
• A lot of time was spent on PHP 6 which never happened