On the HHVM blog today they've announce the release of the latest version of the popular project, version 3.1.0. This version fixes a few issues (including a segfault) and crossed into their semi-annual "lockdown" to work directly on the project.

If you remember last time we focused on framework unit tests, performance, and growing beards. This time, our frameworks were in good shape thanks to Fred and our Open Academy students, but our github story was not as pretty. At the start of lockdown we had 60 pull requests and nearly 450 issues. So our focus this time was github health and of course as always, perf.

In the end they closed out 251GitHub issues and made things 16% more efficient in the process. They list out some of the updates in this release including:

• Support for PHP 5.6 variadic ...$args syntax for func declarations
• Over 400 ini settings you can use to configure various things
• Fixes for several security issues including CVE-2011-2202 and CVE-2014-2270

You can grab this latest release from the pre-build packages page on the GitHub project account.