HHVM 4.48 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.42; HHVM 4.43–4.47 remain supported, as do the 4.8 and 4.32 LTS releases.

Highlights

  • If a non-abstract class contains an abstract method, report the error at the location of the class name (where the abstract modifier should be), instead of at the function declaration.
  • Some error code suppressions apply to line ranges, instead of nodes. hackfmt will now ignore any code in such a range, as formatting it could un-suppress errors.
  • If a file generated by hack-codegen is partially generated, hackfmt will only format the manual sections.
  • hackfmt will not modify files containing @generated.
  • Updated and clarified error message for private methods - now “must be public or protected”, previously (incorrectly) “Access type […] must be omitted”.
  • hh_client lsp --config now accepts .hhconfig settings, in addition to hh.conf (system-wide) settings.
  • Error for uninitialized members now suggest making the property “nullable” instead of “optional”, to avoid confusion with shape terminology.
  • Suggest using $x is SomeEnum if an exhaustive switch statement contains a default: block.
  • The CLI client/server protocol version has changed; if you have configured CLI client/server and deploy them separately, this may lead to fallback to standalone CLI mode.

Breaking Changes

  • It is again an error to have a default case in exhaustive switch ($enum) blocks; while the enum is not enforced at runtime, we feel this behavior is better as it raises an error when the enum is expanded but switch statements are not. Note that a switch statement that does not match (no matching case, no default) are still expected to throw an exception in a future release, or now with the hhvm.throw_on_non_exhaustive_switch=2 setting.
  • HHVM_VERSION_ID is of the form XXYYYZZ instead of XXYYZZ; if you are extracting parts, please use the HHVM_VERSION_MAJOR, HHVM_VERSION_MINOR, and HHVM_VERSION_PATCH constants instead.

Future Changes

  • added disable_partial (will be renamed disable_modes shortly) - a boolean flag that disables partial mode (and all other modes!) from Hack completely. Comments after the <?hh are just comments, and non-hhi files are inherently strict. The default value will be false for the foreseeable future.