HHVM 4.126 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.120; HHVM 4.121–4.123 remain supported, as do the 4.80 and 4.102 LTS releases.

HHVM 4.125 was cancelled due to issues with the release candidate builds.

Highlights

  • hh_client --lint FILE is now supported, including several type-aware linters. There is not currently any configuration or suppression available; please join us in Slack to discuss potential integration approaches.
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye) is now supported.
  • Updated to a newer version of Timelib, fixing support for newer timezone databases; in some environments, some transitions would be missing.
  • is/as checks will now invoke the autoloader if required instead of failing.
  • Improved build system reliability and performance for Hack components used by the runtime (e.g. the parser).
  • Added the HH\Lib\Locale namespace, providing:
    • Locale\create(string $locale)[]: Locale\Locale
    • Locale\modified(Locale\Locale $base, Locale\Category $cat, string $new): Locale
    • Locale\c()[]: Locale\Locale (likely to be renamed to Locale\bytes())
    • Locale\get_native(): Locale\Locale
    • Locale\set_native(Locale\Locale $locale): void
    • Locale\from_environment(): Locale\Locale

The new Locale\ functions are intended to be a replacement for the setlocale() built-in, and to interoperate with future changes to the Str\ namespace.

We discourage changing the native locale in most cases (either with setlocale() or with the new Locale\set_native()) as it can have unexpected results, such as changing the output of Str\format(), or translating exception messages raised by some builtins which should usually end up in logs that are read by developers/administrators instead of users. We have included it to provide a migration path for existing users of setlocale(), and because it is desirable in some cases, especially CLI tools.

Breaking Changes

  • Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy) is no longer supported, as it reached end of life in July.

Future Changes

  • Str\ HSL functions will start throwing InvalidArgumentException instead of InvariantException when invalid offsets or lengths are passed. We strongly recommend against catching either of these exceptions.
  • In a future release, it will be an error to iterate over most forms of objects; this can be tested now with the hhvm.throw_on_iteration_over_objects INI setting. Set to 1 for a notice to be raised, or 2 for an error.