The PHP development group has released the latest in the PHP 7.1.x preview releases: PHP 7.1.0 Beta 1. This moves this next minor release out of the alpha stages and one step closer to a final release.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.0 Beta 1. This release is the first beta for 7.1.0. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs and incompatibilities in the bug tracking system.

PHP 7.1.0 Beta 1 builds on previous releases with: asynchronous signal handling (without ticks) in ext/pcntl and additional context in pcntl_signal handler.

As always, you can download this preview release (not designed to be use in production) from either the pre-release downloads page or the Windows PHP QA site for the Windows binaries. The release plan is for the final version of PHP 7.1.0 to be released on August 8th, 2016. For complete information on what's involved in the release, check the full list in this page on the wiki.