But here’s the frustrating part—sometimes when you try to update PHP, your site crashes, and you’re left scrambling to figure out which plugin or theme caused the problem.

The PHP developers have released PHP 8.3.12 and 8.2.24. They close several security vulnerabilities, some of which are critical.

Faster Code Execution: PHP 8 is the first PHP version that has a compiler – JIT – that caches your interpreted code and generates a machine code as an output.

New DOM API in PHP 8.4.1 brings standards-compliant support for parsing HTML5 documents and adds functions to make working with documents more convenient.