Announce PHP 8.4.0RC1

Author: SakiTakamachi

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+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+  <title>PHP 8.4.0 RC 1 now available for testing</title>
+  <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2024.php#2024-09-26-3</id>
+  <published>2024-09-26T19:25:27+00:00</published>
+  <updated>2024-09-26T19:25:27+00:00</updated>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#2024-09-26-3" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2024.php#2024-09-26-3" rel="via" type="text/html"/>
+  <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/>
+  <content type="xhtml">
+    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+      <p>
+         The PHP team is pleased to announce the release of PHP 8.4.0, RC 1.
+         This is the first release candidate, continuing the PHP 8.4 release cycle,
+         the rough outline of which is specified in the
+         <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php84">PHP Wiki</a>.
+       </p>
+       <p>
+         For source downloads of PHP 8.4.0, RC 1 please visit the
+         <a href="https://downloads.php.net/~saki">download page</a>.
+       </p>
+       <p>
+         Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the
+         <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/issues">bug reporting system</a>.
+       </p>
+       <p><b>Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version.</b></p>
+       <p>
+         For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the
+         <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.4.0RC1/NEWS">NEWS</a> file
+         or the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.4.0RC1/UPGRADING">UPGRADING</a>
+         file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be
+         found in the release archive.
+       </p>
+       <p>
+         The next release will be RC 2, planned for 10 October 2024.
+       </p>
+       <p>
+         The signatures for the release can be found in
+         <a href="https://gist.github.com/SakiTakamachi/198dac0514f8cba37ed3506526cd1fb2">the manifest</a>
+         or on <a href="https://qa.php.net/">the QA site</a>.
+       </p>
+       <p>Thank you for helping us make PHP better.</p>
+    </div>
+  </content>
+</entry>