Benchmarks Of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 22 July 2017 at 09:56 AM EDT. 2 Comments PHP 7.2 Beta 1 was released yesterday as the next step towards this next refinement to PHP7 that is expected to be officially released in November. I couldn't help but to run some initial benchmarks. PHP 7.2 Beta 1 presents the Sodium extension for modern