HHVM 4.52 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.46; HHVM 4.47–4.51 remain supported, as do the 4.8 and 4.32 LTS releases.

HHVM 4.52.1 fixes a regression introduced in 4.52.0, which made the typechecker report Hack parse errors in PHP code, instead of ignoring actual PHP source files.

Highlights

• fixed crash in ext_soap if a SoapServer’s handler class does not exist.
• ?> and <?= are no longer recognized by the parser; this has replaced dedicated errors with parse errors.

Breaking Changes

• it is now a type error to use the same trait twice in the same class; using the same trait in related classes (e.g. subclasses and parents) is still permitted.

Future Changes

• Runtime support for casting objects to strings via __toString will be removed shortly; this includes (string) $obj, print($obj), sprintf('%s', $obj) among others. The hhvm.notice_on_implicit_invoke_to_string INI setting can be used to find calls that will break.