HHVM 4.30 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.24; 4.25–4.29 remain supported, as do the LTS releases 3.30 and 4.8.

Highlights

fixed handling of parsing errors in the mailparse extension (issue #8532)
the typechecker now considers most built-in “auto-imported” types to be in the HH namespace (HH\dict, HH\Container, etc.), consistently with how the runtime already treated them
- previously, the typechecker incorrectly considered them to belong to the root namespace, so this fixes cases where the typechecker would report errors in correct code (HH\dict), or not report errors in code that would fail at runtime (\dict)
- that said, as these types are auto-imported, it is never necessary, and not recommended, to refer to them using their fully qualified names (use dict instead of HH\dict, etc.)
- specific types fixed in the current release: vec, dict, keyset, Container, KeyedContainer, Traversable, KeyedTraversable, Iterable, KeyedIterable, Iterator, KeyedIterator, AsyncIterator, AsyncKeyedIterator, AsyncGenerator

Breaking changes

it is no longer possible to override built-in types using use statements (use MyVector as Vector, use MyType as string, etc.)
fixed a few remaining places where built-in types were still treated as case-insensitive (should not affect most users, as they were already treated as case-sensitive almost everywhere)

we are starting to work on deprecating PHP-style anonymous functions (function($num) { return $num * 2; }) in favor of lambdas ($num ==> $num * 2)
- you can test this by adding error_php_lambdas=true to your .hhconfig (this will likely become the default behavior in the future)
we are working on extending fb_serialize() to correctly distinguish between all the different array-like types (vec, dict, keyset, varray, darray, array)
- these changes should be backwards compatible, generally hidden behind new flags