Slightly more interesting changelog:

https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.4.4

That being said, this is a pretty boring release. Save the upvotes for 8.5 when it comes? :)

One wonders, why is a minor release announcement for PHP on the front page?

How is PHP's speed these days? I haven't been following but I heard that PHP has become much more capable in features and performance since I used it a decade ago.

A great bug fix release on a great major release. Thank you to everyone involved to make this possible.

Does anyone know specifically how much of this is no longer true? https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Still no builtun unicode. Still no way to do concurrency. Sees like PHP is only getting closer to become a poormans Java.

PHP needs modules. The way it solves code reuse by tooling that helps making class names longer to avoid collisions is just too cumbersome.

Python:

    calc.py
    -------

    def sum(a, b):
        return a+b

    hello.py
    --------

    import calc
    print(calc.sum(1, 2))

    LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidCollisions/Calc.php
    ---------------------------------------------------

    <?php
    namespace LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidCollisions;
    class Calc {
        public static function sum($a, $b) {
            return $a + $b;
        }
    }

    hello.php
    ---------

    <?php
    require_once 'LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidCollisions/Calc.php';
    use LongUniqueStringToHopefullyAvoidCollisions\Calc;
    echo Calc::sum(1, 2)