PHP 7.2: goodbye mcrypt, hello sodium
PHP 7.2 released November 30th. The headline isn’t a language feature, it’s a removal. mcrypt is gone. This is good news, even if it doesn’t feel that way when you’re the one migrating. The mcrypt problem mcrypt has been unmaintained since 2007. More than a decade of stagnation in a cryptography library. It was deprecated in 7.1, and 7.2 removes it entirely. The replacement is sodium, now bundled as a core extension. ...