207 - PHP 8.4 and Symfony security advisories

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Join the member only chat and support the show https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjFs9wBGz4HlEJGUB6jzUmw/join In today's show we take a look at what is new in PHP 8.4 discuss the Symfony security advisories and talk about when is the best time to build an API. PHP 8.4 PHP 8.4 will be released on November 21st 2024 https://wiki.php.net/todo/php84. Some improvements include: - Property hooks - New without parentheses - Asymmetric visibility - array_find - Implicit nullable types - HTML5 support - JIT changes - Lazy objects PHP 8.4 RFCs and resources - PHP RFC: Property hooks https://wiki.php.net/rfc/property-hooks - PHP RFC: New without parentheses https://wiki.php.net/rfc/new_without_parentheses - PHP RFC: Asymmetric visibility https://wiki.php.net/rfc/asymmetric-visibility-v2 - PHP RFC: array_find https://wiki.php.net/rfc/array_find - PHP RFC: Implicit nullable types https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-implicitly-nullable-types - PHP RFC: HTML5 support https://wiki.php.net/rfc/domdocument_html5_parser - PHP RFC: JIT changes https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit_config_defaults - PHP RFC: Lazy objects https://wiki.php.net/rfc/lazy-objects - Stitcher blog https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-84 Symfony security advisories Most of these are for earlier versions on Symfony but some go affect Symfony 7. Please check the list of Symfony security advisories https://symfony.com/blog/category/security-advisories and patch or upgrade.