On the PHP.net site they've made an announcement about releases of all currently supported major PHP versions with bugfix/security releases.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP [7.0.33, 7.1.25, and 7.2.13]. Five security-related issues were fixed in this release. All PHP 7.0 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

You can download these latest releases from either the main downloads page or windows.php.net for the Windows executables.

There's also a note for the PHP 7.0.33 release based on the release and support timelines: this will be the final release, of any kind, for the PHP 7.0.x branch including security support. If you haven't already upgraded past version 7.0.x, there's never been a better time!

As announced on the main PHP.net site, several new versions of the language have been released including one for the upcoming PHP 7.3.x series:

• PHP 7.1.24
• PHP 7.2.12
• PHP 7.3.0RC5

The v7.1 and v7.2 releases are bugfix releases and include changes in core functionality, date handling, FTP, Tidy and XML.

The PHP 7.3.0RC5 release is the latest Release Candidate for the PHP 7.3.x series. If all goes well and no major issues come up, the next step in the release process is to officially branch the 7.3.0 release and have one more Release Candidate (6) before a GA release.

As always you can download the bugfix releases from the downloads section (or windows.php.net) and the Release Candidate from the QA site (or windows.php.net/qa). Bugs found should be reported via the PHP bug tracking system.

The main PHP.net site has announced the release of two new versions of PHP in the 7.1 and 7.2 series: PHP 7.1.23 and PHP 7.2.11.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.23 [and 7.2.11. This is a bugfix release.

All PHP 7.1 [and 7.2] users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

Bugs fixed in theses releases include updates to the core language, the curl extension, opcaching, reflection functionality and the XMLRPC handling. If you're interested in all of the changes and want more detail, check out their respective Changelogs. As always, you can download these latest releases from the main downloads page or from the windows.php.net site.

On the main PHP.net site they've announced the release of several new versions for the PHP 7.1.x and 7.2.x series as well as the first Release Candidate for PHP 7.3.0.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.22 [and 7.0.32/7.2.10]. This is a security release. One security bug has been fixed in this release. All PHP 7.1 [and 7.2] users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

These updates can be downloaded from the main downloads page or windows.php.net for the Windows binaries. The pre-release PHP 7.3.0RC1 is also available from the QA site or the Windows QA site.

The main PHP.net site has released the latest version in the PHP 7.2x series: PHP 7.2.7.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.7. This is a primarily a bugfix release which includes a segfault fix for opcache.

PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

Besides the segfault fix, the Changelog also lists issues corrected in the CLI server, OpenSSL handling and SPL functionality. As always, you can get this latest release from the main downloads page (source) or from windows.php.net for the Windows binaries.

The PHP Roundtable podcast, hosted by PHP community member Sammy Powers, has posted their latest episode: Episode #71 - Extra, extra: PHP 7.2 released!.

The next major version of PHP is here! PHP 7.2 comes with a nice set of upgrades, performance enhancements, and a brand new crypto library right out of the box. We discuss some of the features and breaking changes that we should be aware of before upgrading to PHP 7.2.

In this episode, Sammy is joined by Scott Arciszewski and Craig Duncan to discuss the updates in this latest version and how you can make the upgrade without too many things breaking. You can catch this episode either by using the in-page audio and video player, by downloading the audio directly or by watching the recording over on YouTube directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter for updates on when future shows are recorded and released.

Matthew Weier O'Phinney has made a post on the Zend Framework blog about the release of PHP 7.2 support for Zend Expressive, now in version 3.

With Expressive 3 complete, we were able to turn our sights on another important initiative: PHP 7.2 support across all components and Apigilty modules.

The short story is: as of today, that initiative is complete! If you are using the Zend Framework MVC framework, Expressive, or Apigility, or any of the ZF components standalone, you should be able to perform a composer update to get versions that support PHP 7.2.

The full story is much longer.

He starts with a look at the path to get to PHP 7.2 support including the considerations for not breaking backwards compatibility as much as possible. He then moves on to the approach they took with changes to the Composer and Travis-CI configuration changes to make it easier to run the tests on multiple PHP versions (with multiple PHPUnit versions too). The post ends with a look ahead at four things coming soon including a PSR-7-based zend-mvc v4, work on the documentation and more tutorials/guides to help devs make the most of Zend Expressive.

The OS X users out there are no doubt familiar with the Homebrew package management system that makes it easier to install and update software on your system. This includes PHP and several other related pieces of software. In this post to his site Andy Grunwald shows you how to use Homebrew to migrate your local PHP setup up to PHP 7.2.

Last week, Hans Puac, a colleague of mine, wrote a small guide into our internal company chat on how to migrate your local PHP environment on macOS to the new Homebrew version 1.5.*. The guide helped a lot of other engineers inside trivago. I thought it might help more people from the internet. I asked Hans if I am allowed to share it, and he approved. So kudos belongs to him. Here we go:

With Homebrew 1.5.0 the tap homebrew/php got deprecated. They migrated it to homebrew/core, but this is changing the installation process completely.

He then walks through the steps (complete with the commands required) to make the update happen:

1. Cleanup (the currently installed PHP packages)
2. Update [Homebrew]
3. Install PHP (7.2)
4. Verify the installation
5. Install extensions
6. Cleanup

He also includes a few tips to help you troubleshoot some of the common problems including wrong versions of PHP, wrong php.ini being used and a "module already loaded" issue.

The main PHP.net site has posted the announcement(s) of the release of updates for the three supported versions of the language: 7.1.15, 5.6.34 & 7.2.3.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.15, 5.6.34 and 7.2.3. This is a security fix release, containing one security fix and many bug fixes. All [PHP] users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

Fixes include changes to the DateTime handling, LDAP connectivity, Phar construction, PostgreSQL issues and changes to the SPL. You can get these latest versions either from the main downloads page or on windows.php.net for the Windows binaries.

The Kinsta blog has published an article they call the Definitive PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 72. and HHVM benchmarks providing a comparison between these different versions running different popular PHP software (including WordPress, Drupal and Magento 2).

Each year we try and take a deep dive into performance benchmarks across various platforms and see how different versions of PHP and HHVM stack up against each other. This year we went all out and benchmarked four different PHP engines and HHVM across 20 different platforms/configurations; including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Laravel, Symfony, and many more. We also tested popular eCommerce solutions such as WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, Magento, and PrestaShop.

[...] The results this year have drastically changed from our previous benchmarks where HHVM was the winner. We now are excited to see PHP 7.2 as the leading engine in terms of speed. [...] This is great news for developers and end-users alike as it means more of a focus back on PHP and providing faster websites and web services for everyone.

The post then starts with a look at the system setup (well, Google Cloud instance) that's used for the testing and how it is configured. From there it goes into the test results from each of the different types of software:

• WordPress
• Drupal
• Joomla!
• Magento 2
• Grav CMS
• October CMS
• Laravel
• Symfony
• PyroCMS
• Pagekit
• Bolt
• AnchorCMS
• PrestaShop
• CraftCMS
• ForkCMS

As you can see there's more of a leaning towards content management and e-commerce solutions in their list. It's good to see base frameworks in the list too, however. For each item in the list they provide a graph of the results showing requests per second.