The actual version is the version 7, the 4th February 2016. It uses Zend Engine 2 and introduce a powerful modelization object, an error managment based on model exception, and also sone managment fonctionnary for the enterprise. PHP 5 bring many novely, like SQLite support and as well as some ways to manipulate files and XML structure based on libxml2 :

• a simple API named SimpleXML ;
• an API Document Object Model fairy complete ;
• an interface XPath using DOM objects and SimpleXML ;
• integration of libxslt for XSLT transformation with XSL extension ;
• a better gestion of object comparate to PHP 4, with possibility to extend to be like Java's. This last update is the 7.0.4 dating from 3rd March 2016