PHP new version October released! Jump over 6 straight up PHP7?

Did the PHP6 version of the 5-year-old plan fail? The new version of PHP, which will be launched in October this year, is version 7.0, so don't say your PHP5 website is going to upgrade PHP6.

The most widely used translation language PHP finally has the latest official version of the news, it is expected to release the official version in October 2015, and after the PHP community core contributors to vote, more than 70% people agree that the latest PHP version will be PHP7 rather than PHP6. PHP6, which was developed from 2005 to 2010, has been merging new features into PHP5.3 and PHP5.4 over the years.

PHP Community Core participants Andrea Faulds and Zeev Suraski on the PHP wiki, co-published an article that PHP6 development encountered some problems, resulting in no way to release the official version (general availability), They think PHP6 is a failed project and it's time to go to PHP7. PHP7 was originally a phpng project privately carried out by Hui Weng and Dmitry Stogov in the PHP community, and later the project was publicly accepted and developed for the next PHP succession release.

The text summarizes the community in opposition to the use of the PHP7 version of The Voice, the opposition opinion most think, from the PHP5 slightly over PHP6 directly into the PHP7, will let the user to the version number confusion, and damage the structure of PHP version number, and now has a lot of PHP resources is PHP6 as the protagonist, May cause the developer to be in a state of disorientation.

Affirmative response, because PHP6 widely known, on the internet has a lot of information on the PHP6, if the next version is also known as PHP6 will cause a catastrophe, because this version has been discontinued in 2010 with the PHP6 of the development of a great difference, there are many old information difficult to update, such as published books, and non-php.net managed PHP6 Information pages will mislead developers. And because PHP6 is well known, the next version of PHP7 is reasonable, but PHP6 is not officially official version.

In addition, the square also thought that the skip version number example is not unprecedented, like the MySQL twin sister database mariadb version number directly starting from 10, Netscape Communicator is also skipping 5.0 from 6.0 onwards, Symantec Edition number skips 13, these products all have their own factors to make this decision. It is also mentioned in the history of dynamic language, version number 6 is not a good number, the square list is not only PHP6 failure, PERL6 also failed. In addition, MYSQL6 has never been formally released, even if it has been developed for so long. Perhaps the PHP version is changed to China's lucky number 7, it will develop a little more smoothly.

Hui Weng, the engineer of Sina Weibo in China and one of PHP7 's promoters, believes that performance is the most important of the programming language compared to the new features, because even the 1% performance boost has a huge impact on the biggest lamp platform in China, such as Sina foot bath powder Weibo. And Dmitry Stogov is also a performance advocate, therefore two people will hit it off, common development PHP7 project. Hui Weng said, PHP7 has a significant performance improvement, in WordPress compared to PHP5.6, QPS (Queries per second) has a 100% increase, he believes that until the official release of PHP7, Sina Weibo system effectiveness will also be a huge increase.

PHP new version October released! Jump over 6 straight up PHP7?