HHVM 4.78 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.72; HHVM 4.73–4.77 remain supported, as do the 4.32 and 4.56 LTS releases.

Highlights

• The (class|function|interface|trait)_exists functions are now more optimized in repo-authoritative mode. This takes advantage of the fact that all HHBBC definitions are now unique and persistent.
• Improved the typechecker error for invalid (string) casts.
• var_dump() now distinguishes between varrays and darrays by default, instead of reporting both as array.

Breaking Changes

• is shape(...) requires a darray, and is tuple(...) requires a varray; is checks with reified generics are now consistent with this when the generic is a shape or tuple. Previously, reified generics were more permissive.
• require() and related functions no longer support URIs, e.g. file://foo.hack.
• All special-casing for array has been removed from the parser. It is now parsed as a name token, like user-defined types.

Future Changes

• calling array_fill_keys() will require that $keys is a Container<Tk as arraykey>; this will allow specifying a darray<Tk, Tv> return type. Currently, it will return null if $keys is not a Container.