HHVM 4.43 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.36; HHVM 4.37–4.42 remain supported, as do the 4.8 and 4.32 LTS releases.

Highlights

• We are now building Homebrew packages for MacOS 10.15 Catalina. Please report MacOS-specific issues in the homebrew-hhvm repository.
• Extending an undefined parent class no longer produces a redundant typechecker error 4123 (“Class has a non-<?hh grandparent”), it now only produces the relevant error 2049 (“Unbound name”).
• Improved typechecker error message when attempting to declare the type of a local variable (int $x = 42;).

Breaking Changes

• Built-in functions json_decode, str_split, array_fill, class_implements, class_uses, class_parents now return darray instead of the legacy array type. This change should be largely transparent, as darray and array are interchangeable at runtime, but the change might be observable by serialize, var_dump or similar functions.
• The contains method on Set, ImmSet and ConstSet is now declared to take an arraykey argument instead of mixed. The method would already throw at runtime when called with any non-arraykey value.