PHP 8.1 is Two Weeks Away, Here's What to Expect

The PHP team announced the final PHP 8.1 release candidate (RC6), with the GA release two weeks away!

The PHP 8.1 GA release happens in two weeks on Thursday, November 25th. The timetable has more details on the release schedule of PHP 8.1. Users are encouraged to test projects with PHP 8.1 but don't run this version in production quite yet.

An excellent way to start testing is to leverage PHP 8.1 Support in Laravel Sail. Recently, Laravel 8.69 introduced an Enum validation rule as well as enum model casts, which require PHP 8.1:

PHP 8.1 is a minor release with new features focusing on the language's object-oriented design, types, functions, etc. Here are some of the highlight features coming to PHP 8.1:

• Enums
• Fibers
• Performance
• Final Class Constants
• PHP array_is_list()
• fsync function

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