PHP 5.6.0 was released yesterday, which marks another milestone for PHP development. With it comes a nice set of new features and a few BC breaks. I’ll go over some of the more prominent points and link to a list of everything for your deeper perusal. As for features, the most interesting to me are improved handling of variatic functions and argument unpacking with ..., constant scalar expressions, exponentiation, and file downloads that can exceed 2 GB. There are a few more, but these are, perhaps, the ones that the average developer may encounter/use on a regular basis.

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