Topic: PHP 5.5.0 beta 1 available

[Jan-E]

PHP 5.5.0 has reached the beta stadium:
http://windows.php.net/qa

Most interesting thing: the addition of ZendOptimizerPlus as OPcache. OPcache will replace APC as the favoured opcode cacher.

If you want to test PHP 5.5.0, but are missing extensions, you may find them in my 5.5 builds:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8954372/php-5.5.0beta1-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8954372/php-5.5.0beta1-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.zip

Please note that the official 5.5 builds are compiled with VC11, while my builds are VC9. The VC9 extensions should load fine with the VC11 PHP-binaries, but please report it here if they do not.

I have x64 builds as well, but OPcache will not work under x64 at the moment:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8954372/php-5.5.0beta1-Win32-VC9-x64.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8954372/php-5.5.0beta1-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.zip

[Smitty]

Wow the big news is a built-in opcode cacher. I'm still using Wincache on my systems but development has pretty much stopped on Wincache.

I noticed ZendOptimizerPlus has gone open-source and they say it is compatible with PHP 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5.

Check out:

https://github.com/zend-dev/ZendOptimizerPlus/

I don't see an option there to download pre-compiled Windows versions.

[James Blond]

In the php-5.5.0beta1-Win32-VC9-x86.zip form Jan-E there is ext\php_opcache.dll
The QA beta from php.net are also contain than cache. http://windows.php.net/qa

[Smitty]

Will that extension in the 5.5 beta run on 5.4 and below?

[James Blond]

I haven't tried, but there are some changes in the core to make it run in 5.5, so I think it won't. Also the magic number won't match. So no. Sad but true

[Jan-E]

Precompiled php_opcache.dll's are in all my recent x86 builds:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8954372/php-5.3.23-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8954372/php-5.3.23-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8954372/php-5.4.13-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8954372/php-5.4.13-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
Every once in a while I put new versions there, because some extensions are changing rapidly. php_opcache.dll is one of them.

Also you can find more or less official builds at
http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/snaps/ZendOptimizerPlus/7.0.1-dev/
These are still under the old name and fairly old. I will ask the PHP devs to put new ones somewhere at
http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/snaps/

See the commit log at https://github.com/zend-dev/ZendOptimizerPlus/commits/master
Things seem to have stabilized now.

[Smitty]

Thanks Jan-E.

Do I need to run your build of PHP 5.4.13 for php_opcode.dll to work? I tried putting your DLL in my existing 5.4.13 install (from windows.php.net)and the extension won't load. I get the error:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Invalid library (maybe not a PHP library) 'php_opcache.dll' in Unknown on line 0

[Jan-E]

Try zend_extension=ext/php_opcache.dll or with the full path. See https://github.com/zend-dev/ZendOptimizerPlus/blob/master/README and http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=5169

[Smitty]

Thanks, it loaded successfully when I did zend_extension=ext/php_opcache.dll

Now time to test and see if it causes any problems.

[Jan-E]

PECL release: http://pecl.php.net/package/ZendOpcache

Discussions by the PHP developers:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/79692

[Smitty]

Great, thanks. It looks like they just released 7.0.1 today. Good to see so much active development.

[Jan-E]

http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/opcache/7.0.1/