HHVM 4.32 released with long term support

November 19, HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) developer team announced their latest release of HHVM 4.32.0. It will be supported for about 48 weeks.

HHVM is a program execution environment for Facebook’s programming language Hack. By using JIT compile method, high performance is achieved. It was originally developed as a program execution environment for PHP, but the PHP support has already been ended, and now they focus on Hack.

HHVM is the latest version following the previous 4.31.0, which was released on November 11. It will be supported for around 48 weeks, and the next LTS is scheduled to be released in about 24 weeks.

The developer team announced that they will continue their support for HHVM 4.27 – 4.31 but are ending support for 4.30, which will be the last release supporting PHP.

With HHVM 4.32, they fixed the problem, in which the typechecker didn’t recognize some of the parameters available at runtime. The runtime configuration option hhvm.php7.int_semantics has been removed. Now there are additional two generic type parameters.

As to the enhancements added for developers, now you can set up appropriate environment for OCaml tools. Also MOVE method can be used on HTTP server bundled with HHVM (Proxygen). HHVM 4.32 is available on the project’s website.

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