PHP 8.2 Changelog

Last Updated: September 4, 2025

PHP 8.2 introduced significant improvements in type safety, performance, and developer experience. This update enhances static analysis capabilities, improves runtime efficiency, and adds modern syntax features for cleaner code.

PHP 8.2 – November 2024

Added: Constructor property promotion in traits allows defining properties and assigning values in a single step within trait declarations.

Added: Static return type declarations improve type accuracy for methods returning a specific static class instance.

Improved: The is_countable() function provides stricter type checking for array/Traversable inputs.

Deprecated: The get_class() function for non-objects now triggers deprecation warnings.

Performance: Optimized array operations reduce memory usage in list/dictionary structures.

Previous Major Versions

Version	Release Date	Notable Features
PHP 8.3	September 2025	Readonly type-arrays, union type enhancements, ARMv9 optimizations	Details →
PHP 8.1	November 2023	Enumerations, readonly classes, performance improvements	Details →

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