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We're pleased to announce that a beta Loader for PHP 7 is now available; to everyone who was patient, thank you! As we've written elsewhere ad nauseam, supporting files produced for older versions of PHP on PHP 7 poses more challenges than ever before due the extent of internal changes with PHP. This type of development is not something that can be rushed, it takes as long as it takes, and pushing out a release before most of our test suite passed would be of little point as malfunctioning code would be almost certain for most end users.

The first beta is for running code produced by our current Encoder product for PHP 5.6 and above using PHP 7 on Linux 32 bit. The next planned release is for 64 bit. If you are unsure whether scripts are compatible, the script provider should be able to advise.

The helpdesk at https://support.ioncube.com should be used for reporting issues.

The first beta Loader has a sha256 checksum of f2483ea6925bf37ef0a4bc81b93512b37cfec6f639eab1a90df1d18ccac144f5 and the download is https://www.ioncube.com/php7-linux-x86-beta1.tgz
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