HHVM 4.54 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.48; HHVM 4.49–4.53 remain supported, as do the 4.8 and 4.32 LTS releases.

Highlights

  • inout parameters on async functions now only raise a parse error, instead of a parse error and a NastCheck error.
  • improved accuracy of line numbers for errors or backtraces within concurrent blocks
  • The ignored_fixme_codes (errors that can not be suppresed) hack option is no longer respected for HHI files; this allows projects to use a stricter list than is compatible with builtins.
  • If using CLI server mode, a warning is now logged if the CLI client does not recognize a command sent to the CLI server. We strongly recommend using the hhvm.check_cli_client_commands=2 INI setting to raise an error instead: these warnings indicate a bug in HHVM, and can not be safely recovered from. If you see this warning, please file a bug report. It can also be set to 0 to disable the warnings. Any value other than 2 leads to undefined behavior in this error case.
  • Increased the efficiency of idx() and array access on empty containers.

Breaking Changes

  • Containers are now more consistently checked for valid arraykeys; this behavior can be enabled on old releases with the disallow_invalid_arraykey=true .hhconfig setting.

Future Changes

  • The hhvm.check_cli_client_commands INI setting will default to 2 (error) in a future release.