PHP 7 was released on 3 December 2015. One of the most exciting event and release of PHP 7 version after the major release of PHP 5. This release is considered to be the most features and important change in PHP programming language.
PHP 7 introduces many new features and lots of performance upgrades.
PHP 7 also removes some old functionalities and features which were not compatible with old applications while migrating to new version.
In PHP 7, the server can return pages to the users almost twice as fast.