2025, PHP 8.5 ... and other 5 things ...

 Hi folks,

About 5 months without any update, does not mean however nothing happened 😌

Finally, FreeBSD 15.0 is around the corner, it is expected sooner than later ! As always there is a release notes, what I retain personally is C libraries are using more and more SIMD for noticeable performance improvements.

A bit earlier, PHP 8.5 had been released. While the Pipe operator definitely takes the cake amongst new features, I for sure invite you to look the NEWS and the migration guide. Notably, now opcache is being a builtin, you no longer need to set this line zend_extension=...

Meanwhile, as usual,did some contributions here and there, sched-ext/scx (I am glad the meson build had been made obsolete), rust libc ... This language still remains one of my top 3 !

Wish you great Xmas holidays in advance, take care !