HHVM 4.50 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.44; HHVM 4.45–4.49 remain supported, as do the 4.8 and 4.32 LTS releases.

Additionally, we are no longer building binary packages for MacOS High Sierra for any version of HHVM, as High Sierra is no longer offered by our build infrastructure provider.

Highlights

  • added the hhvm.hack_arr_is_shape_tuple_notices INI setting, which raises a notice on $dict is shape() and $vec is tuple(); these are currently always false, but may be true in the future, so are unsafe to depend on.
  • HH\BuiltinEnum<T> is now covariant.
  • Improve hackfmt’s range formatting when suppressions outside the requested range affect code within the requested range.

Breaking Changes

  • magic methods (__get, __set, __isset, __unset) have been removed from the typechecker definitions of builtins, such as the XMLReader, Imagick, DateTime, and SimpleXML extensions.
  • it is now a type error to use argument unpacking when invoking a default constructor. It was already an error to make a variadic call to functions that take exactly zero arguments, and as default constructors always have exactly zero arguments, this makes the behavior consistent. This was previously a runtime error.

Future Changes

  • array() literals will be removed; the hhvm.hack.lang.disable_array=true INI setting can be used to enable a runtime fatal when they are used, in addition to the preexisting disallow_array_literal=true .hhconfig option.
  • The magic methods on builtins that were removed from the typechecker in this release will be removed from the runtime in a future release.