PHP NEWS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ?? ??? ????, PHP 8.5.0beta2 - Core: . Fixed bug GH-18850 (Repeated inclusion of file with __halt_compiler() triggers "Constant already defined" warning). (ilutov) . Fixed bug GH-19476 (pipe operator fails to correctly handle returning by reference). (alexandre-daubois) - ODBC: . Remove ODBCVER and assume ODBC 3.5. (Calvin Buckley) - OpenSSL: . Implement #81724 (openssl_cms_encrypt only allows specific ciphers). (Jakub Zelenka) - Session: . Added support for partitioned cookies. (nielsdos) - Standard: . Fixed bug GH-16649 (UAF during array_splice). (alexandre-daubois) . Passing integers outside the interval [0, 255] to chr() is now deprecated. (Girgias) . Added support for partitioned cookies. (nielsdos) 14 Aug 2025, PHP 8.5.0beta1 - Core: . Non-canonical cast names (boolean), (integer), (double), and (binary) have been deprecated. (Girgias) . The $exclude_disabled parameter of the get_defined_functions() function has been deprecated, as it no longer has any effect since PHP 8.0. (Girgias) . Terminating case statements with a semicolon instead of a colon has been deprecated. (theodorejb) . The backtick operator as an alias for shell_exec() has been deprecated. (timwolla) . Returning null from __debugInfo() has been deprecated. (DanielEScherzer) . Support #[\Override] on properties. (Jiří Pudil) - Curl: . The curl_close() function has been deprecated. (DanielEScherzer) . The curl_share_close() function has been deprecated. (DanielEScherzer) - Date: . The DATE_RFC7231 and DateTimeInterface::RFC7231 constants have been deprecated. (jorgsowa) - DOM: . Fixed bug GH-18877 (\Dom\HTMLDocument querySelectorAll selecting only the first when using ~ and :has). (nielsdos, lexborisov) - FileInfo . The finfo_close() function has been deprecated. (timwolla) . The $context parameter of the finfo_buffer() function has been deprecated as it is ignored. (Girgias) - GD: . The imagedestroy() function has been deprecated. (DanielEScherzer) - Intl: . Intl's internal error mechanism has been modernized so that it indicates more accurately which call site caused what error. Moreover, some ext/date exceptions have been wrapped inside a IntlException now. (Girgias) . The intl.error_level INI setting has been deprecated. (Girgias) - MySQLi: . The mysqli_execute() alias function has been deprecated. (timwolla) - OpenSSL: . Fixed bug GH-19369 (8.5 | Regression in openssl_sign() - support for alias algorithms appears to be broken). (Jakub Zelenka) . The $key_length parameter for openssl_pkey_derive() has been deprecated. (Girgias) . Implement #80495 (Enable to set padding in openssl_(sign|verify). (Jakub Zelenka) . Implement #47728 (openssl_pkcs7_sign ignores new openssl flags). (Jakub Zelenka) - PDO: . The "uri:" DSN scheme has been deprecated due to security concerns with DSNs coming from remote URIs. (timwolla) - Reflection: . Fixed bug GH-17927 (Reflection: have some indication of property hooks in `_property_string()`). (DanielEScherzer) . The setAccessible() methods of various Reflection objects have been deprecated, as those no longer have an effect. (timwolla) . ReflectionClass::getConstant() for constants that do not exist has been deprecated. (DanielEScherzer) . ReflectionProperty::getDefaultValue() for properties without default values has been deprecated. (DanielEScherzer) - SPL: . Unregistering all autoloaders by passing the spl_autoload_call() function as a callback argument to spl_autoload_unregister() has been deprecated. Instead if this is needed, one should iterate over the return value of spl_autoload_functions() and call spl_autoload_unregister() on each value. (Girgias) . The SplObjectStorage::contains(), SplObjectStorage::attach(), and SplObjectStorage::detach() methods have been deprecated in favour of SplObjectStorage::offsetExists(), SplObjectStorage::offsetSet(), and SplObjectStorage::offsetUnset() respectively. (Girgias) - Standard: . The socket_set_timeout() alias function has been deprecated. (timwolla) . Passing null to to readdir(), rewinddir(), and closedir() to use the last opened directory has been deprecated. (Girgias) . Fixed bug GH-19153 (#[\Attribute] validation should error on trait/interface/enum/abstract class). (DanielEScherzer) - XML: . The xml_parser_free() function has been deprecated. (DanielEScherzer) 31 Jul 2025, PHP 8.5.0alpha4 - Core: . Add clone-with support to the clone() function. (timwolla, edorian) . Fix support for non-userland stream notifiers. (timwolla) . Added PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER constant. (timwolla) . Fixed bug GH-19305 (Operands may be being released during comparison). (Arnaud) . Fixed bug GH-19306 (Generator can be resumed while fetching next value from delegated Generator). (Arnaud) . Fixed bug GH-19326 (Calling Generator::throw() on a running generator with a non-Generator delegate crashes). (Arnaud) - Curl: . Add support for CURLINFO_CONN_ID in curl_getinfo() (thecaliskan) . Add support for CURLINFO_QUEUE_TIME_T in curl_getinfo() (thecaliskan) . Add support for CURLOPT_SSL_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHMS. (Ayesh Karunaratne) - FPM: . Make FPM access log limit configurable using log_limit. (Jakub Zelenka) - GD: . Fix incorrect comparison with result of php_stream_can_cast(). (Girgias) - Intl: . Fix return value on failure for resourcebundle count handler. (Girgias) . Fixed bug GH-19307 (PGO builds of shared ext-intl are broken). (cmb) - OPcache: . Disallow changing opcache.memory_consumption when SHM is already set up. (timwolla) . Fixed bug GH-15074 (Compiling opcache statically into ZTS PHP fails). (Arnaud) . Make OPcache non-optional (Arnaud, timwolla) . Fixed bug GH-17422 (OPcache bypasses the user-defined error handler for deprecations). (Arnaud, timwolla) . Fixed bug GH-19301 (opcache build failure). (Remi) - OpenSSL: . Add $digest_algo parameter to openssl_public_encrypt() and openssl_private_decrypt() functions. (Jakub Zelenka) - POSIX: . posix_kill and posix_setpgid throws a ValueError on invalid process_id. (David Carlier) . posix_setpgid throws a ValueError on invalid process_group_id, posix_setrlimit throws a ValueError on invalid soft_limit and hard_limit arguments. (David Carlier) - Reflection: . Fixed bug GH-19187 (ReflectionNamedType::getName() prints nullable type when retrieved from ReflectionProperty::getSettableType()). (ilutov) - Session: . Fixed GH-19197: build broken with ZEND_STRL usage with memcpy when implemented as macro. (David Carlier) - Soap: . Fixed bug GH-19226 (Segfault when spawning new thread in soap extension). (Florian Engelhardt) - Sockets: . socket_set_option for multicast context throws a ValueError when the socket family is not of AF_INET/AF_INET6 family. (David Carlier) - Standard: . Add HEIF/HEIC support to getimagesize. (Benstone Zhang) . Implement #71517 (Implement SVG support for getimagesize() and friends). (nielsdos) . Optimized PHP html_entity_decode function. (Artem Ukrainskiy) . Minor optimization to array_chunk(). (nielsdos) - URI: . Empty host handling is fixed. (Máté Kocsis) . Error handling of Uri\WhatWg\Url::withHost() is fixed when the input contains a port. Now, it triggers an exception; previously, the error was silently swallowed. (Máté Kocsis) . Support empty URIs with Uri\Rfc3986\Uri. (timwolla) 17 Jul 2025, PHP 8.5.0alpha2 - Core: . Fix OSS-Fuzz #427814452 (pipe compilation fails with assert). (nielsdos, ilutov) - DOM: . Make cloning DOM node lists, maps, and collections fail. (nielsdos) . Added Dom\Element::getElementsByClassName(). (nielsdos) - PDO_ODBC . Fetch larger block sizes and better handle SQL_NO_TOTAL when calling SQLGetData. (Calvin Buckley, Saki Takamachi) - Standard: . Optimized pack(). (nielsdos, divinity76) . Fixed bug GH-19070 (setlocale($type, NULL) should not be deprecated). (nielsdos) - URI: . Return the singleton UrlValidationErrorType instances from Uri\WhatWg\Url instead of creating new objects that are different from the singleton. (timwolla) 03 Jul 2025, PHP 8.5.0alpha1 - BCMath: . Simplify `bc_divide()` code. (SakiTakamachi) . If the result is 0, n_scale is set to 0. (SakiTakamachi) . If size of BC_VECTOR array is within 64 bytes, stack area is now used. (SakiTakamachi) - CLI: . Add --ini=diff to print INI settings changed from the builtin default. (timwolla) . Drop support for -z CLI/CGI flag. (nielsdos) . Fixed GH-17956 - development server 404 page does not adapt to mobiles. (pascalchevrel) - CURL: . Added CURLFOLLOW_ALL, CURLFOLLOW_OBEYCODE and CURLFOLLOW_FIRSTONLY values for CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION curl_easy_setopt option. (David Carlier) - COM: . Fixed property access of PHP objects wrapped in variant. (cmb) . Fixed method calls for PHP objects wrapped in variant. (cmb) - Core: . Fixed bug GH-16665 (\array and \callable should not be usable in class_alias). (nielsdos) . Added PHP_BUILD_DATE constant. (cmb) . Added support for Closures and first class callables in constant expressions. (timwolla, Volker Dusch) . Use `clock_gettime_nsec_np()` for high resolution timer on macOS if available. (timwolla) . Implement GH-15680 (Enhance zend_dump_op_array to properly represent non-printable characters in string literals). (nielsdos, WangYihang) . Add support for backtraces for fatal errors. (enorris) . Fixed bug GH-17442 (Engine UAF with reference assign and dtor). (nielsdos) . Improved error message of UnhandledMatchError for zend.exception_string_param_max_len=0. (timwolla) . Fixed bug GH-17959 (Relax missing trait fatal error to error exception). (ilutov) . Fixed bug GH-18033 (NULL-ptr dereference when using register_tick_function in destructor). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug GH-18026 (Improve "expecting token" error for ampersand). (ilutov) . Added the #[\NoDiscard] attribute to indicate that a function's return value is important and should be consumed. (timwolla, Volker Dusch) . Added the (void) cast to indicate that not using a value is intentional. (timwolla, Volker Dusch) . Added get_error_handler(), get_exception_handler() functions. (Arnaud) . Fixed bug GH-15753 and GH-16198 (Bind traits before parent class). (ilutov) . Added support for casts in constant expressions. (nielsdos) . Fixed bugs GH-17711 and GH-18022 (Infinite recursion on deprecated attribute evaluation) and GH-18464 (Recursion protection for deprecation constants not released on bailout). (DanielEScherzer and ilutov) . Fixed AST printing for immediately invoked Closure. (Dmitrii Derepko) . Properly handle __debugInfo() returning an array reference. (nielsdos) . Properly handle reference return value from __toString(). (nielsdos) . Added the pipe (|>) operator. (crell) . Added support for `final` with constructor property promotion. (DanielEScherzer) . Do not use RTLD_DEEPBIND if dlmopen is available. (Daniil Gentili) . Make `clone()` a function. (timwolla, edorian) . Fixed bug GH-19081 (Wrong lineno in property error with constructor property promotion). (ilutov) - Curl: . Added curl_multi_get_handles(). (timwolla) . Added curl_share_init_persistent(). (enorris) . Added CURLINFO_USED_PROXY, CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_USED, and CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_USED support to curl_getinfo. (Ayesh Karunaratne) - Date: . Fix undefined behaviour problems regarding integer overflow in extreme edge cases. (nielsdos, cmb, ilutov) - DOM: . Added Dom\Element::$outerHTML. (nielsdos) . Added Dom\Element::insertAdjacentHTML(). (nielsdos) . Added $children property to ParentNode implementations. (nielsdos) - Enchant: . Added enchant_dict_remove_from_session(). (nielsdos) . Added enchant_dict_remove(). (nielsdos) . Fix missing empty string checks. (nielsdos) - EXIF: . Add OffsetTime* Exif tags. (acc987) - Fileinfo: . Upgrade to file 5.46. (nielsdos) . Change return type of finfo_close() to true. (timwolla) - FPM: . Fixed GH-17645 (FPM with httpd ProxyPass does not decode script path). (Jakub Zelenka) - GD: . Fixed bug #68629 (Transparent artifacts when using imagerotate). (pierre, cmb) . Fixed bug #64823 (ZTS GD fails to to find system TrueType font). (cmb) - Intl: . Bumped ICU requirement to ICU >= 57.1. (cmb) . IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone()/datefmt_set_timezone() throws an exception with uninitialised classes or clone failure. (David Carlier) . Added DECIMAL_COMPACT_SHORT/DECIMAL_COMPACT_LONG for NumberFormatter class. (BogdanUngureanu) . Added Locale::isRightToLeft to check if a locale is written right to left. (David Carlier) . Added null bytes presence in locale inputs for Locale class. (David Carlier) . Added grapheme_levenshtein() function. (Yuya Hamada) . Added Locale::addLikelySubtags/Locale::minimizeSubtags to handle adding/removing likely subtags to a locale. (David Carlier) . Added IntlListFormatter class to format a list of items with a locale, operands types and units. (BogdanUngureanu) . Fixed bug GH-18566 ([intl] Weird numeric sort in Collator). (nielsdos) - LDAP: . Allow ldap_get_option to retrieve global option by allowing NULL for connection instance ($ldap). (Remi) - MySQLi: . Fixed bugs GH-17900 and GH-8084 (calling mysqli::__construct twice). (nielsdos) - MySQLnd: . Added mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics to ini quick reference. (hauk92) - Opcache: . Fixed ZTS OPcache build on Cygwin. (cmb) . Added opcache.file_cache_read_only. (Samuel Melrose) . Updated default value of opcache.jit_hot_loop. (Arnaud) . Log a warning when opcache lock file permissions could not be changed. (Taavi Eomäe) - OpenSSL: . Added openssl.libctx INI that allows to select the OpenSSL library context type and convert various parts of the extension to use the custom libctx. (Jakub Zelenka) - Output: . Fixed calculation of aligned buffer size. (cmb) - PCNTL: . Extend pcntl_waitid with rusage parameter. (vrza) - PCRE: . Upgraded to pcre2lib from 10.44 to 10.45. (nielsdos) . Remove PCRE2_EXTRA_ALLOW_LOOKAROUND_BSK from pcre compile options. (mvorisek) - PDO_PGSQL: . Added Iterable support for PDO::pgsqlCopyFromArray. (KentarouTakeda) . Implement GH-15387 Pdo\Pgsql::setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_PREFETCH, 0) or Pdo\Pgsql::prepare(…, [ PDO::ATTR_PREFETCH => 0 ]) make fetch() lazy instead of storing the whole result set in memory (Guillaume Outters) - PDO_SQLITE: . throw on null bytes / resolve GH-13952 (divinity76). . Implement GH-17321: Add setAuthorizer to Pdo\Sqlite. (nielsdos) . PDO::sqliteCreateCollation now throws a TypeError if the callback has a wrong return type. (David Carlier) . Added Pdo_Sqlite::ATTR_BUSY_STATEMENT constant to check if a statement is currently executing. (David Carlier) . Added Pdo_Sqlite::ATTR_EXPLAIN_STATEMENT constant to set a statement in either EXPLAIN_MODE_PREPARED, EXPLAIN_MODE_EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN_MODE_EXPLAIN_QUERY_PLAN modes. (David Carlier) - PGSQL: . Added pg_close_stmt to close a prepared statement while allowing its name to be reused. (David Carlier) . Added Iterable support for pgsql_copy_from. (David Carlier) . pg_connect checks if connection_string contains any null byte, pg_close_stmt check if the statement contains any null byte. (David Carlier) . Added pg_service to get the connection current service identifier. (David Carlier) - POSIX: . Added POSIX_SC_OPEN_MAX constant to get the number of file descriptors a process can handle. (David Carlier) . posix_ttyname() sets last_error to EBADF on invalid file descriptors, posix_isatty() raises E_WARNING on invalid file descriptors, posix_fpathconf checks invalid file descriptors. (David Carlier) - Random: . Moves from /dev/urandom usage to arc4random_buf on Haiku. (David Carlier) - Reflection: . Added ReflectionConstant::getExtension() and ::getExtensionName(). (DanielEScherzer) . Fixed bug GH-12856 (ReflectionClass::getStaticPropertyValue() returns UNDEF zval for uninitialized typed properties). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug GH-15766 (ReflectionClass::__toString() should have better output for enums). (DanielEScherzer) . Added ReflectionProperty::getMangledName() method. (alexandre-daubois) - Session: . session_start() throws a ValueError on option argument if not a hashmap or a TypeError if read_and_close value is not compatible with int. (David Carlier) - SimpleXML: . Fixed bug GH-12231 (SimpleXML xpath should warn when returning other return types than node lists). (nielsdos) - SNMP: . snmpget, snmpset, snmp_get2, snmp_set2, snmp_get3, snmp_set3 and SNMP::__construct() throw an exception on invalid hostname, community timeout and retries arguments. (David Carlier) - SOAP: . Fixed bug #49169 (SoapServer calls wrong function, although "SOAP action" header is correct). (nielsdos) . Fix namespace handling of WSDL and XML schema in SOAP, fixing at least GH-16320 and bug #68576. (nielsdos) . Fixed bug #70951 (Segmentation fault on invalid WSDL cache). (nielsdos) . Implement request #55503 (Extend __getTypes to support enumerations). (nielsdos, datibbaw) . Implement request #61105 (Support Soap 1.2 SoapFault Reason Text lang attribute). (nielsdos) - Sockets: . Added IPPROTO_ICMP/IPPROTO_ICMPV6 to create raw socket for ICMP usage. (David Carlier) . Added TCP_FUNCTION_BLK to change the TCP stack algorithm on FreeBSD. (David Carlier) . socket_set_option() catches possible overflow with SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO with timeout setting on windows. (David Carlier) . Added TCP_FUNCTION_ALIAS, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA_NODOM, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_CURDOM, TCP_BBR_ALGORITHM constants. . socket_create_listen() throws an exception on invalid port value. (David Carlier) . socket_bind() throws an exception on invalid port value. (David Carlier) . socket_sendto() throws an exception on invalid port value. (David Carlier) . socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception on invalid hints value types. (David Carlier) . socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception if any of the hints value overflows. (David Carlier) . socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception if one or more hints entries has an index as numeric. (David Carlier) . socket_set_option with the options MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP/MCAST_LEAVE_SOURCE_GROUP will throw an exception if its value is not a valid array/object. (David Carlier) . socket_getsockname/socket_create/socket_bind handled AF_PACKET family socket. (David Carlier) . Added IP_BINDANY for a socket to bind to any address. (David Carlier) . Added SO_BUSY_POOL to reduce packets poll latency. (David Carlier) - Added UDP_SEGMENT support to optimise multiple large datagrams over UDP if the kernel and hardware supports it. (David Carlier) - Added SHUT_RD, SHUT_WR and SHUT_RDWR constants for socket_shutdown(). (David Carlier) - Sodium: . Fix overall theoretical overflows on zend_string buffer allocations. (David Carlier/nielsdos) - Sqlite: . Added Sqlite3Stmt::busy to check if a statement is still being executed. (David Carlier) . Added Sqlite3Stmt::explain to produce a explain query plan from the statement. (David Carlier) . Added Sqlite3Result::fetchAll to returns all results at once from a query. (David Carlier) - Standard: . Fixed crypt() tests on musl when using --with-external-libcrypt (Michael Orlitzky). . Fixed bug GH-18062 (is_callable(func(...), callable_name: $name) for first class callables returns wrong name). (timwolla) . Added array_first() and array_last(). (nielsdos) . Fixed bug GH-18823 (setlocale's 2nd and 3rd argument ignores strict_types). (nielsdos) . Fixed exit code handling of sendmail cmd and added warnings. (Jesse Hathaway) . Fixed bug GH-18897 (printf: empty precision is interpreted as precision 6, not as precision 0). (nielsdos) - Streams: . Fixed bug GH-16889 (stream_select() timeout useless for pipes on Windows). (cmb) - Tests: . Allow to shuffle tests even in non-parallel mode. (dhuang00) - Tidy: . tidy::__construct/parseFile/parseString methods throw an exception if the configuration argument is invalid. (David Carlier) - Windows: . Fixed bug GH-10992 (Improper long path support for relative paths). (cmb, nielsdos) . Fixed bug GH-16843 (Windows phpize builds ignore source subfolders). (cmb) - XMLWriter: . Improved performance and reduce memory consumption. (nielsdos) - XSL: . Implement request #30622 (make $namespace parameter functional). (nielsdos) - Zlib: . gzfile, gzopen and readgzfile, their "use_include_path" argument is now a boolean. (David Carlier) . Fixed bug GH-16883 (gzopen() does not use the default stream context when opening HTTP URLs). (nielsdos) . Implemented GH-17668 (zlib streams should support locking). (nielsdos) <<< NOTE: Insert NEWS from last stable release here prior to actual release! >>>