HHVM 4.127 is released! This release marks the end of support for 4.121; HHVM 4.122–4.126 remain supported, as do the 4.80 and 4.102 LTS releases.

Highlights

• Clearer typechecker errors when an attribute is passed the wrong number of arguments.
• add Str\foo_l() functions taking a Locale\Locale() object, and supporting UTF8 (via Locale\create('en_US.UTF-8'), for example). We recommend only using these functions when locale or multibyte-character awareness is explicitly required, as:
  • the non-_l functions are more performant
  • the implementation works on normalized UTF-16, which can mean that a Str\ends_with_l() call returns true when a string ends with the same characters, but in a different byte sequence, potentially of a different length.
• Corrected behavior of __FILE__ in trait methods.
• Added crypto_core_ristretto255_from_hash() and sodium_crypto_scalarmult_ristretto255() when supported by system libsodium.
• Added the sodium_crypto_secretstream family of functions.
• Updated hackfmt’s formatting of assignments with long assignment values. Now hackfmt prefers to break the whole assignment value onto a new line. You can preserve the old newline handling with hackfmt.version = 0 in your .hhconfig.

Breaking Changes

• The .hhconfig flag disallow_partially_abstract_typeconst_definitions is now true by default, and will be removed in a future release. This bans declarations of the form const type T as Y = Z.
• foo()::$static_prop = 1 is now a runtime error, instead of only a typechecker error.