HHVM 4.15 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.9; 4.10-4.14 remain supported, as do the LTS releases 3.30 and 4.8.

Highlights

  • IDE integrations now show docblocks for namespaced functions.
  • Fixed an issue that could lead to CLI server clients hanging on exit in some Linux environments.
  • Improved typing of noreturn methods.

Breaking Changes

  • Untyped variadics now raise type errors; replace with mixed ...$foo.
  • inout parameter types are now invariant - both co- and contra- variant. They were previously incorrectly treated as contravariant.
  • instanceof is now a parse error. In 4.14.x, it was not a parser error, but no longer refined types. In HHAST 4.14.x, hhast-migrate --instanceof-is can be used to replace expressions of the form $x instanceof Foo with $x is Foo, and expressions of the form $x instanceof $some_expression with \is_a($x, $some_expression).

Future Changes

  • In a future release, all support for calling functions by-reference will be removed. Typechecker enforcement can be enabled now with the disallow_byref_calls=true .hhconfig option.
  • Support for "${foo}" will be removed, and can be replaced with "{$foo}"; hhast-migrate --dollar-brace-variable-migration can be used to migrate code, and the disable_outside_dollar_str_interp=true .hhconfig setting can be used to enforce this immediately.