HHVM 4.59 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.53; HHVM 4.54–4.58 remain supported, as does the 4.32 LTS release.

Highlights

• Improved output of hh_client to more accurately describe the status of the server in various cases.

Breaking Changes

• The typechecker now raises an error if any attribute arguments (<<Attr('arg1', 'arg2')>>) are not literal values. These had already been runtime errors.
  • Array, shape and tuple literals are allowed.
• The .hhconfig option stronger_shape_idx_return has been removed. This was an experimental option that was never enabled by default, so this change should not affect most users.
• If a where constraint on a constructor isn’t satisfied at the point of using new, the typechecker would previously raise an error pointing to the constructor definition. Instead, it now points to the use (the new construct).
  • This provides more helpful output and fixes an issue where typechecking a file could raise an error in a different file, but it may require some HH_FIXMEs to be moved.