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SourceGuardian 17 adds PHP 8.5 support
Posted on December 11th 2025 at 06:23pm by
We are proud to announce launching of SourceGuardian 17 and SourceGuardian 17 Pro with full PHP 8.5 support. 

The update includes:
 
 · Full support for PHP8.5 encoding, including all the latest language features. 
 · New loaders for PHP8.5 Please check our PHP blog and the loaders
page for new versions.
 · Updated loaders for PHP8+ 
 · Support for PHP 5.3 and 5.4 removed. You may use SG16 for encoding for the old versions of PHP.
 
 · PRO version update, Old PHP7+ projects reencoding is advised.
 · GUI: Fixed randomization of project id/key for new projects

 · Please find further details about this release in the update user manual.
 
!!! Removing support of PHP 5 - 7.1 in the next major release. They are too old to use and support !!!

A new version is available for downloading from our site. Please feel free to try it.

Already using  SourceGuardian? Our active users may upgrade from their 
user profile as usual.

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loader assistant to know the loader you need and how to install it.

 
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