All new features, performance upgrades, and deprecations in PHP 8.2

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PHP 8.2 will be released on November 24, 2022. In this post, we'll go through all features, performance improvements, changes and deprecations one by one. null and false can be used as standalone types. Dynamic properties are deprecate in PHP 8. 2, and throw an ErrorException in PHP 9.0.

What's new in PHP 8.2

# Return type changes for DateTime :: createFromImmutable () and DateTimeImmutable :: createFromMutable () breaking

# utf8_encode () and utf8_decode () deprecations RFC

# Locale-insensitive strtolower () and strtoupper () breaking RFC

# Signature changes to several SPL methods breaking

# ODBC username and password escaping breaking

# Deprecate partially supported callables RFC