Calvin Buckley has announced the release of the second alpha version of PHP 8.4.0 for testing.

php-8.4.0alpha2

- Core:
. Fixed bug GH-14801 (Fix build for armv7). (andypost)
. Implemented property hooks RFC. (ilutov)

- DOM:
. Improve support for template elements. (nielsdos)

- GD:
. Check overflow/underflow for imagescale/imagefilter. (David Carlier)

- LibXML:
. Added LIBXML_NO_XXE constant. (nielsdos)

- Opcache:
. Fixed bug GH-14873 (PHP 8.4 min function fails on typed integer).
(nielsdos)

- PDO:
. Fixed bug GH-14792 (Compilation failure on pdo_* extensions).
(Peter Kokot)

- Standard:
. Change highlight_string() and print_r() return type to string|true. (Ayesh)

- Windows:
. Update the icon of the Windows executables, e.g. php.exe. (Ayesh,
Nurudin Imširović)

- XML:
. Fixed bug #81481 (xml_get_current_byte_index limited to 32-bit numbers on
64-bit builds). (nielsdos)

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