Cross posted from the Zephir Blog

We are happy to announce the release of Zephir 0.12.0! This release fixes a good number of bugs and offers more optimizations as well as cleanup. The highlights are:

Added initial support for use in closures

in closures Removed PHP 5.x code (not supported)

Corrected ArrayAccess implementation

implementation Fixed segfaults

Changelog

Added

Added initial support of “use” keyword in closures #888, #1848

Removed

PHP 5.x is no longer supported

Changed

The minimal Zephir Parser version is 1.3.0

Fixed

Fixed CLI runner for Windows #1857

Fixed segfault with fetching and opcache #1855

Extended classes can’t access their private variables #1851

Incorrect usage of zend_declare_class_constant_ex phalcon/cphalcon#14160, https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78121

phalcon/cphalcon#14160, https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78121 Incorrect implementation of ArrayAccess methods #1871

Big thank you to all of our contributors

<3 Zephir Team