PHP 8.2 Released With Readonly Classes, Random Extension

PHP 8.2 is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language primarily for web purposes.

PHP 8.2 adds support for defining constants in traits, the "Random" extension is introduced, read-only classes, Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) Types, updated MIME type table for the built-in web server, reduced memory footprint of strings returned by various functions, initial support for JIT performance profiling generation for macOS Instrument, enabling arc4random_buf for Linux with Glibc 2.36+ for random bytes, initial support for cross-building on Windows for ARM64, allocating the JIT buffer Opcache close to the PHP .text segment to allow using direct IP-relative calls and jumps, new options for PHP Sockets, support for new Curl options, new ZipArchive methods, dynamic properties have been deprecated, and other PHP 8.2 performance improvements.

Downloads and more details on the PHP 8.2 changes via PHP.net.