HHVM 4.24 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.18; 4.19-4.23 remain supported, as do the LTS releases 3.30 and 4.8.

Highlights

  • We are now building packages for Debian 10 (Buster). Debian 10 support is currently experimental, please open an issue if you notice any problems.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause segfaults in JIT internals (i.e., not while executing code) on Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo).
  • Parser error handling has been rewritten from OCaml to Rust. This should cause no user-facing changes, but please open an issue if you notice any problems. This can be disabled by adding hhvm.hack.lang.hack_compiler_use_rust_parser_errors to hhvm.ini.
  • Fixed misleading error message when await was used on the right side of a pipe |> operator.
  • fun() and class_meth() can now be used inside constant expressions (this can be disabled by adding disallow_func_ptrs_in_constants=true to .hhconfig).
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class C {
  const (function(): int) FUNCTION = fun('time');
  private static (function(): void) $method = class_meth('Foo', 'bar');
}

Breaking Changes

  • casting to object ((object)$value) is no longer supported by the runtime (it was already a type checker error in strict mode)
  • the built-in function pg_fetch_object was removed (use pg_fetch_assoc instead)
  • the following built-in functions had an optional passed-by-reference parameter removed:
    • str_replace (use str_replace_with_count instead when needed)
    • str_ireplace (use str_ireplace_with_count)
    • headers_sent (use headers_sent_with_file_line)
    • openssl_encrypt (use openssl_encrypt_with_tag)
    • array_multisort was removed completely (use array_multisort1, array_multisort2, etc. depending on the number of arguments you need to pass in—up to array_multisort9)
    • use hhast-migrate --ref-to-inout to automatically migrate your calls
  • the following built-in functions that previously had optional passed-by-reference parameters, now have non-optional inout parameters:
    • string functions: similar_text, parse_str
    • multi-byte string functions: mb_convert_variables, mb_ereg, mb_eregi, mb_parse_str
    • image functions: getimagesize, exif_thumbnail
    • IPC functions: msg_send, msg_receive
    • LDAP functions: ldap_parse_result, ldap_control_paged_result_response
    • exec-family functions: exec, passthru, system
    • socket functions: fsockopen, pfsockopen, socket_server, stream_socket_accept, stream_socket_server, stream_socket_client, stream_socket_recvfrom, socket_getpeername, socket_getsockname, socket_recvfrom
    • network functions: dns_get_record, dns_get_mx, getmxrr
    • OpenSSL functions: openssl_random_pseudo_bytes
    • use hhast-migrate --ref-to-inout to automatically migrate your calls
  • AsyncMysqlConnectionPool::connect(): Awaitable<AsyncMysqlConnection> now declares a return type (previously untyped)
  • hh_client --typed-full-fidelity-json is no longer supported (it has been producing incorrect results in most cases)

Future Changes

  • The hhvm.ini option hhvm.hack.lang.hack_compiler_use_rust_parser_errors (see above) is expected to be removed in the next release (HHVM 4.25).
  • The .hhconfig option coercion_from_dynamic will be removed soon. See documentation for detailed coercion rules for the dynamic type.
  • The default values for the hhvm.ini options hhvm.check_prop_type_hints and hhvm.check_return_type_hints will soon be changed to 3 (fatal error) and the options should be removed soon after that.