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  <title>PHP 7.3.0 Released</title>
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  <published>2018-12-06T13:57:53+01:00</published>
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      <p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.0.
      This release marks the third feature update to the PHP 7 series.</p>

      <p>PHP 7.3.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as</p>

      <ul>
      <li><a href="http://php.net/manual/migration73.new-features.php#migration73.new-features.core.heredoc">Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntax</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://php.net/manual/migration73.other-changes.php#migration73.other-changes.pcre">PCRE2 Migration</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://php.net/manual/migration73.new-features.php#migration73.new-features.mbstring">Multiple MBString Improvements</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://php.net/manual/migration73.new-features.php#migration73.new-features.ldap">LDAP Controls Support</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://php.net/manual/migration73.new-features.php#migration73.new-features.fpm">Improved FPM Logging</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://php.net/manual/migration73.windows-support.php#migration73.windows-support.core.file-descriptors">Windows File Deletion Improvements</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://php.net/manual/migration73.deprecated.php">Several Deprecations</a></li>
      </ul>

      <p>For source downloads of PHP 7.3.0 please visit our <a href="http://www.php.net/downloads">downloads</a> page
      Windows binaries can be found on the <a href="http://windows.php.net/download">PHP for Windows</a> site.
      The list of changes is recorded in the <a href="http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php#7.3.0">ChangeLog</a>.</p>

      <p>The <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/migration73.php">migration guide</a> is available in the PHP Manual.
      Please consult it for the detailed list of new features and backward incompatible changes.</p>

      <p>Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!</p>
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