In a new post to the Laravel News site, they've shared the announcement about the release of the first Release Candidate for PHP 7.3.x: PHP 7.3.0RC1.

PHP 7.3 is inching closer to general release (planned for December), with today’s announcement of the first PHP 7.3 release candidate:

The post also shares the upcoming timeline for the releases leading up to PHP 7.3.0 (stable) with the first beta release planned for November 20th. They also list out (and link to more information) for some of the features coming in 7.3 including:

• Trailing Commas in function calls
• Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc syntax
• list() reference assignment

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.