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PHP 8.5 Thursday, 20 November 2025

PHP 8.5.0

318 changes across 55 components.

Core

  • Added the #[\NoDiscard] attribute to indicate that a function's return value is important and should be consumed.
  • Added the (void) cast to indicate that not using a value is intentional.
  • Added get_error_handler(), get_exception_handler() functions.
  • Added support for casts in constant expressions.
  • Added the pipe (|>) operator.
  • Added support for `final` with constructor property promotion.
  • Added support for configuring the URI parser for the FTP/FTPS as well as the SSL/TLS stream wrappers as described in https://wiki.php.net/rfc/url_parsing_api#plugability.
  • Added PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER constant.
  • Added PHP_BUILD_DATE constant.
  • Added support for Closures and first class callables in constant expressions.
  • Add support for backtraces for fatal errors.
  • Add clone-with support to the clone() function.
  • Add RFC 3986 and WHATWG URL compliant APIs for URL parsing and manipulation (kocsismate, timwolla)
  • Fixed AST printing for immediately invoked Closure.
  • Properly handle __debugInfo() returning an array reference.
  • Properly handle reference return value from __toString().
  • Improved error message of UnhandledMatchError for zend.exception_string_param_max_len=0.
  • Fixed bug GH-15753 and GH-16198 (Bind traits before parent class).
  • Fixed bug GH-17951 (memory_limit is not always limited by max_memory_limit).
  • Fixed bug GH-20183 (Stale EG(opline_before_exception) pointer through eval).
  • Fixed bug GH-20113 (Missing new Foo(...) error in constant expressions).
  • Fixed bug GH-19844 (Don't bail when closing resources on shutdown).
  • Fixed bug GH-20177 (Accessing overridden private property in get_object_vars() triggers assertion error).
  • Fix OSS-Fuzz #447521098 (Fatal error during sccp shift eval).
  • Fixed bug GH-20002 (Broken build on *BSD with MSAN).
  • Fixed bug GH-19352 (Cross-compilation with musl C library).
  • Fixed bug GH-19765 (object_properties_load() bypasses readonly property checks).
  • Fixed hard_timeout with --enable-zend-max-execution-timers.
  • Fixed bug GH-19839 (Incorrect HASH_FLAG_HAS_EMPTY_IND flag on userland array).
  • Fixed bug GH-19823 (register_argc_argv deprecation emitted twice when using OPcache).
  • Fixed bug GH-19480 (error_log php.ini cannot be unset when open_basedir is configured).
  • Fixed bug GH-19719 (Allow empty statements before declare(strict_types)).
  • Fixed bug GH-19934 (CGI with auto_globals_jit=0 causes uouv).
  • Fixed bug GH-19613 (Stale array iterator pointer).
  • Fixed bug GH-19679 (zend_ssa_range_widening may fail to converge).
  • Fixed bug GH-19681 (PHP_EXPAND_PATH broken with bash 5.3.0).
  • Fixed bug GH-18850 (Repeated inclusion of file with __halt_compiler() triggers "Constant already defined" warning).
  • Fixed bug GH-19476 (pipe operator fails to correctly handle returning by reference).
  • Fixed bug GH-19081 (Wrong lineno in property error with constructor property promotion).
  • Fixed bug GH-17959 (Relax missing trait fatal error to error exception).
  • Fixed bug GH-18033 (NULL-ptr dereference when using register_tick_function in destructor).
  • Fixed bug GH-18026 (Improve "expecting token" error for ampersand).
  • The report_memleaks INI directive has been deprecated.
  • Fixed OSS-Fuzz #439125710 (Pipe cannot be used in write context).
  • Fixed bug GH-19548 (Shared memory violation on property inheritance).
  • Fixed bug GH-19544 (GC treats ZEND_WEAKREF_TAG_MAP references as WeakMap references).
  • Fixed bug GH-18373 (Don't substitute self/parent with anonymous class).
  • Fix support for non-userland stream notifiers.
  • Fixed bug GH-19305 (Operands may be being released during comparison).
  • Fixed bug GH-19306 (Generator can be resumed while fetching next value from delegated Generator).
  • Fixed bug GH-19326 (Calling Generator::throw() on a running generator with a non-Generator delegate crashes).
  • Fix OSS-Fuzz #427814452 (pipe compilation fails with assert).
  • Fixed bug GH-16665 (\array and \callable should not be usable in class_alias).
  • Use `clock_gettime_nsec_np()` for high resolution timer on macOS if available.
  • Make `clone()` a function.
  • Introduced the TAILCALL VM, enabled by default when compiling with Clang>=19 on x86_64 or aarch64.
  • Enacted the follow-up phase of the "Path to Saner Increment/Decrement operators" RFC, meaning that incrementing non-numeric strings is now deprecated. (Girgias).
  • Various closure binding issues are now deprecated.
  • Constant redeclaration has been deprecated.
  • Marks the stack as non-executable on Haiku.
  • Deriving $_SERVER['argc'] and $_SERVER['argv'] from the query string is now deprecated.
  • Using null as an array offset or when calling array_key_exists() is now deprecated.
  • The disable_classes INI directive has been removed.
  • The locally predefined variable $http_response_header is deprecated.
  • Non-canonical cast names (boolean), (integer), (double), and (binary) have been deprecated.
  • The $exclude_disabled parameter of the get_defined_functions() function has been deprecated, as it no longer has any effect since PHP 8.0.
  • Terminating case statements with a semicolon instead of a colon has been deprecated.
  • The backtick operator as an alias for shell_exec() has been deprecated.
  • Returning null from __debugInfo() has been deprecated.
  • Support #[\Override] on properties.
  • Destructing non-array values (other than NULL) using [] or list() now emits a warning.
  • Casting floats that are not representable as ints now emits a warning.
  • Casting NAN to other types now emits a warning.
  • Implement GH-15680 (Enhance zend_dump_op_array to properly represent non-printable characters in string literals).
  • Fixed bug GH-17442 (Engine UAF with reference assign and dtor).
  • Do not use RTLD_DEEPBIND if dlmopen is available.
  • Added #[\DelayedTargetValidation] attribute.
  • Support #[\Deprecated] on traits.

BCMath

  • Simplify `bc_divide()` code.
  • If the result is 0, n_scale is set to 0.
  • If size of BC_VECTOR array is within 64 bytes, stack area is now used.
  • Fixed bug GH-20006 (Power of 0 of BcMath number causes UB).

Bz2

  • Fixed bug GH-19810 (Broken bzopen() stream mode validation).

CLI

  • Add --ini=diff to print INI settings changed from the builtin default.
  • Drop support for -z CLI/CGI flag.
  • Fixed GH-17956 - development server 404 page does not adapt to mobiles.
  • Fix useless "Failed to poll event" error logs due to EAGAIN in CLI server with PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS.
  • Fixed bug GH-19461 (Improve error message on listening error with IPv6 address).

COM

  • Fixed property access of PHP objects wrapped in variant.
  • Fixed method calls for PHP objects wrapped in variant.

Curl

  • Added CURLFOLLOW_ALL, CURLFOLLOW_OBEYCODE and CURLFOLLOW_FIRSTONLY values for CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION curl_easy_setopt option.
  • Added curl_multi_get_handles().
  • Added curl_share_init_persistent().
  • Added CURLINFO_USED_PROXY, CURLINFO_HTTPAUTH_USED, and CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_USED support to curl_getinfo.
  • 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.
  • The curl_close() function has been deprecated.
  • The curl_share_close() function has been deprecated.
  • Fix cloning of CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS when using the clone operator instead of the curl_copy_handle() function to clone a CurlHandle.

Date

  • Fix undefined behaviour problems regarding integer overflow in extreme edge cases.
  • The DATE_RFC7231 and DateTimeInterface::RFC7231 constants have been deprecated.
  • Fixed date_sunrise() and date_sunset() with partial-hour UTC offset.
  • Fixed GH-17159: "P" format for ::createFromFormat swallows string literals.
  • The __wakeup() magic method of DateTimeInterface, DateTime, DateTimeImmutable, DateTimeZone, DateInterval, and DatePeriod has been deprecated in favour of the __unserialize() magic method.

DOM

  • Added Dom\Element::$outerHTML.
  • Added Dom\Element::insertAdjacentHTML().
  • Added $children property to ParentNode implementations.
  • Make cloning DOM node lists, maps, and collections fail.
  • Added Dom\Element::getElementsByClassName().
  • Fixed bug GH-18877 (\Dom\HTMLDocument querySelectorAll selecting only the first when using ~ and :has).
  • Fix getNamedItemNS() incorrect namespace check.

Enchant

  • Added enchant_dict_remove_from_session().
  • Added enchant_dict_remove().
  • Fix missing empty string checks.

EXIF

  • Add OffsetTime* Exif tags.
  • Added support to retrieve Exif from HEIF file.
  • Fix OSS-Fuzz #442954659 (zero-size box in HEIF file causes infinite loop).
  • Fix OSS-Fuzz #442954659 (Crash in exif_scan_HEIF_header).
  • Various hardening fixes to HEIF parsing.

FileInfo

  • The finfo_close() function has been deprecated.
  • The $context parameter of the finfo_buffer() function has been deprecated as it is ignored.
  • Upgrade to file 5.46.
  • Change return type of finfo_close() to true.

Filter

  • Added support for configuring the URI parser for FILTER_VALIDATE_URL as described in https://wiki.php.net/rfc/url_parsing_api#plugability.
  • Fixed bug GH-16993 (filter_var_array with FILTER_VALIDATE_INT|FILTER_NULL_ON_FAILURE should emit warning for invalid filter usage).
  • Added FILTER_THROW_ON_FAILURE flag.

FPM

  • Fixed bug GH-19817 (Decode SCRIPT_FILENAME issue in php 8.5).
  • Fixed bug GH-19989 (PHP 8.5 FPM access log lines also go to STDERR).
  • Fixed GH-17645 (FPM with httpd ProxyPass does not decode script path).
  • Make FPM access log limit configurable using log_limit.
  • Fixed failed debug assertion when php_admin_value setting fails.
  • Fixed GH-8157 (post_max_size evaluates .user.ini too late in php-fpm).

GD

  • Fixed bug #68629 (Transparent artifacts when using imagerotate).
  • Fixed bug #64823 (ZTS GD fails to find system TrueType font).
  • Fix incorrect comparison with result of php_stream_can_cast().
  • The imagedestroy() function has been deprecated.

Iconv

  • Extends the ICONV_CONST preprocessor for illumos/solaris.

Intl

  • Bumped ICU requirement to ICU >= 57.1.
  • IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZone()/datefmt_set_timezone() throws an exception with uninitialised classes or clone failure.
  • Added DECIMAL_COMPACT_SHORT/DECIMAL_COMPACT_LONG for NumberFormatter class.
  • Added Locale::isRightToLeft to check if a locale is written right to left.
  • Added null bytes presence in locale inputs for Locale class.
  • Added grapheme_levenshtein() function.
  • Added Locale::addLikelySubtags/Locale::minimizeSubtags to handle adding/removing likely subtags to a locale.
  • Added IntlListFormatter class to format a list of items with a locale, operands types and units.
  • Added grapheme_strpos(), grapheme_stripos(), grapheme_strrpos(), grapheme_strripos(), grapheme_substr(), grapheme_strstr(), grapheme_stristr() and grapheme_levenshtein() functions add $locale parameter (Yuya Hamada).
  • Fixed bug GH-11952 (Fix locale strings canonicalization for IntlDateFormatter and NumberFormatter).
  • Fixed bug GH-18566 ([intl] Weird numeric sort in Collator).
  • Fix return value on failure for resourcebundle count handler.
  • Fixed bug GH-19307 (PGO builds of shared ext-intl are broken).
  • 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.
  • The intl.error_level INI setting has been deprecated.

LDAP

  • Allow ldap_get_option to retrieve global option by allowing NULL for connection instance ($ldap).

MBstring

  • Updated Unicode data tables to Unicode 17.0.

MySQLi

  • Fixed bugs GH-17900 and GH-8084 (calling mysqli::__construct twice).
  • The mysqli_execute() alias function has been deprecated.

MySQLnd

  • Added mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics to ini quick reference.

ODBC

  • Removed driver-specific build flags and support.
  • Remove ODBCVER and assume ODBC 3.5.

Opcache

  • Make OPcache non-optional (Arnaud, timwolla)
  • Added opcache.file_cache_read_only.
  • Updated default value of opcache.jit_hot_loop.
  • Log a warning when opcache lock file permissions could not be changed.
  • Fixed bug GH-20012 (heap buffer overflow in jit).
  • Partially fixed bug GH-17733 (Avoid calling wrong function when reusing file caches across differing environments).
  • Disallow changing opcache.memory_consumption when SHM is already set up.
  • Fixed bug GH-15074 (Compiling opcache statically into ZTS PHP fails).
  • Fixed bug GH-17422 (OPcache bypasses the user-defined error handler for deprecations).
  • Fixed bug GH-19301 (opcache build failure).
  • Fixed bug GH-20081 (access to uninitialized vars in preload_load()).
  • Fixed bug GH-20121 (JIT broken in ZTS builds on MacOS 15).
  • Fixed bug GH-19875 (JIT 1205 segfault on large file compiled in subprocess).
  • Fixed segfault in function JIT due to NAN to bool warning.
  • Fixed bug GH-19984 (Double-free of EG(errors)/persistent_script->warnings on persist of already persisted file).
  • Fixed bug GH-19889 (race condition in zend_runtime_jit(), zend_jit_hot_func()).
  • Fixed bug GH-19669 (assertion failure in zend_jit_trace_type_to_info_ex).
  • Fixed bug GH-19831 (function JIT may not deref property value).
  • Fixed bug GH-19486 (Incorrect opline after deoptimization).
  • Fixed bug GH-19601 (Wrong JIT stack setup on aarch64/clang).
  • Fixed bug GH-19388 (Broken opcache.huge_code_pages).
  • Fixed bug GH-19657 (Build fails on non-glibc/musl/freebsd/macos/win platforms).
  • Fixed ZTS OPcache build on Cygwin.
  • Fixed bug GH-19493 (JIT variable not stored before YIELD).

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.
  • Add $digest_algo parameter to openssl_public_encrypt() and openssl_private_decrypt() functions.
  • Implement #81724 (openssl_cms_encrypt only allows specific ciphers).
  • Implement #80495 (Enable to set padding in openssl_(sign|verify).
  • Implement #47728 (openssl_pkcs7_sign ignores new openssl flags).
  • Fixed bug GH-19994 (openssl_get_cipher_methods inconsistent with fetching).
  • Fixed build when --with-openssl-legacy-provider set.
  • Fixed bug GH-19369 (8.5 | Regression in openssl_sign() - support for alias algorithms appears to be broken).
  • The $key_length parameter for openssl_pkey_derive() has been deprecated.

Output

  • Fixed calculation of aligned buffer size.

PCNTL

  • Extend pcntl_waitid with rusage parameter.

PCRE

  • Remove PCRE2_EXTRA_ALLOW_LOOKAROUND_BSK from pcre compile options.

PDO

  • Fixed bug GH-20095 (Incorrect class name in deprecation message for PDO mixins).
  • Driver specific methods and constants in the PDO class are now deprecated.
  • The "uri:" DSN scheme has been deprecated due to security concerns with DSNs coming from remote URIs.

PDO_ODBC

  • Fetch larger block sizes and better handle SQL_NO_TOTAL when calling SQLGetData.

PDO_PGSQL

  • Added Iterable support for PDO::pgsqlCopyFromArray.
  • 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

  • Add PDO\Sqlite::ATTR_TRANSACTION_MODE connection attribute.
  • Implement GH-17321: Add setAuthorizer to Pdo\Sqlite.
  • PDO::sqliteCreateCollation now throws a TypeError if the callback has a wrong return type.
  • Added Pdo_Sqlite::ATTR_BUSY_STATEMENT constant to check if a statement is currently executing.
  • 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.
  • Fix bug GH-13952 (sqlite PDO::quote silently corrupts strings with null bytes) by throwing on null bytes.

PGSQL

  • Added pg_close_stmt to close a prepared statement while allowing its name to be reused.
  • Added Iterable support for pgsql_copy_from.
  • pg_connect checks if connection_string contains any null byte, pg_close_stmt check if the statement contains any null byte.
  • Added pg_service to get the connection current service identifier.
  • Fix segfaults when attempting to fetch row into a non-instantiable class name.

Phar

  • Fix potential buffer length truncation due to usage of type int instead of type size_t.
  • Fixed memory leaks when verifying OpenSSL signature.

POSIX

  • Added POSIX_SC_OPEN_MAX constant to get the number of file descriptors a process can handle.
  • 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.
  • posix_kill and posix_setpgid throws a ValueError on invalid process_id.
  • posix_setpgid throws a ValueError on invalid process_group_id, posix_setrlimit throws a ValueError on invalid soft_limit and hard_limit arguments.

Random

  • Moves from /dev/urandom usage to arc4random_buf on Haiku.

Reflection

  • Added ReflectionConstant::getExtension() and ::getExtensionName().
  • Added ReflectionProperty::getMangledName() method.
  • ReflectionConstant is no longer final.
  • The setAccessible() methods of various Reflection objects have been deprecated, as those no longer have an effect.
  • ReflectionClass::getConstant() for constants that do not exist has been deprecated.
  • ReflectionProperty::getDefaultValue() for properties without default values has been deprecated.
  • Fixed bug GH-12856 (ReflectionClass::getStaticPropertyValue() returns UNDEF zval for uninitialized typed properties).
  • Fixed bug GH-15766 (ReflectionClass::__toString() should have better output for enums).
  • Fix GH-19691 (getModifierNames() not reporting asymmetric visibility).
  • Fixed bug GH-17927 (Reflection: have some indication of property hooks in `_property_string()`).
  • Fixed bug GH-19187 (ReflectionNamedType::getName() prints nullable type when retrieved from ReflectionProperty::getSettableType()).
  • Fixed bug GH-20217 (ReflectionClass::isIterable() incorrectly returns true for classes with property hooks).

SAPI

  • Fixed bug GH-18582 and #81451: http_response_code() does not override the status code generated by header().

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.
  • Added support for partitioned cookies.
  • Fix RC violation of session SID constant deprecation attribute.
  • Fixed GH-19197: build broken with ZEND_STRL usage with memcpy when implemented as macro.

SimpleXML

  • Fixed bug GH-12231 (SimpleXML xpath should warn when returning other return types than node lists).

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.

SOAP

  • Added support for configuring the URI parser for SoapClient::__doRequest() as described in https://wiki.php.net/rfc/url_parsing_api#plugability.
  • Implement request #55503 (Extend __getTypes to support enumerations).
  • Implement request #61105 (Support Soap 1.2 SoapFault Reason Text lang attribute).
  • Fixed bug #49169 (SoapServer calls wrong function, although "SOAP action" header is correct).
  • Fix namespace handling of WSDL and XML schema in SOAP, fixing at least GH-16320 and bug #68576.
  • Fixed bug #70951 (Segmentation fault on invalid WSDL cache).
  • Fixed bug GH-19773 (SIGSEGV due to uninitialized soap_globals->lang_en).
  • Fixed bug GH-19226 (Segfault when spawning new thread in soap extension).

Sockets

  • Added IPPROTO_ICMP/IPPROTO_ICMPV6 to create raw socket for ICMP usage.
  • Added TCP_FUNCTION_BLK to change the TCP stack algorithm on FreeBSD.
  • Added IP_BINDANY for a socket to bind to any address.
  • Added SO_BUSY_POOL to reduce packets poll latency.
  • Added UDP_SEGMENT support to optimise multiple large datagrams over UDP if the kernel and hardware supports it.
  • Added SHUT_RD, SHUT_WR and SHUT_RDWR constants for socket_shutdown().
  • Added TCP_FUNCTION_ALIAS, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_NUMA_NODOM, TCP_REUSPORT_LB_CURDOM, TCP_BBR_ALGORITHM constants.
  • socket_set_option() catches possible overflow with SO_RCVTIMEO/SO_SNDTIMEO with timeout setting on windows.
  • socket_create_listen() throws an exception on invalid port value.
  • socket_bind() throws an exception on invalid port value.
  • socket_sendto() throws an exception on invalid port value.
  • socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception on invalid hints value types.
  • socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception if any of the hints value overflows.
  • socket_addrinfo_lookup throws an exception if one or more hints entries has an index as numeric.
  • 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.
  • socket_getsockname/socket_create/socket_bind handled AF_PACKET family socket.
  • socket_set_option for multicast context throws a ValueError when the socket family is not of AF_INET/AF_INET6 family.

Sodium

  • Fix overall theoretical overflows on zend_string buffer allocations.

SPL

  • Fixed bug GH-20101 (SplHeap/SplPriorityQueue serialization exposes INDIRECTs).
  • Improve __unserialize() hardening for SplHeap/SplPriorityQueue.
  • Deprecate ArrayObject and ArrayIterator with objects.
  • 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.
  • The SplObjectStorage::contains(), SplObjectStorage::attach(), and SplObjectStorage::detach() methods have been deprecated in favour of SplObjectStorage::offsetExists(), SplObjectStorage::offsetSet(), and SplObjectStorage::offsetUnset() respectively.

Sqlite

  • Added Sqlite3Stmt::busy to check if a statement is still being executed.
  • Added Sqlite3Stmt::explain to produce an explain query plan from the statement.
  • Added Sqlite3Result::fetchAll to return all results at once from a query.

Standard

  • Add HEIF/HEIC support to getimagesize.
  • Added support for partitioned cookies.
  • Implement #71517 (Implement SVG support for getimagesize() and friends).
  • Implement GH-19188: Add support for new INI mail.cr_lf_mode.
  • Optimized PHP html_entity_decode function.
  • Minor optimization to array_chunk().
  • Optimized pack().
  • Fixed crypt() tests on musl when using --with-external-libcrypt (Michael Orlitzky).
  • Fixed bug GH-18062 (is_callable(func(...), callable_name: $name) for first class callables returns wrong name).
  • Added array_first() and array_last().
  • Fixed bug GH-18823 (setlocale's 2nd and 3rd argument ignores strict_types).
  • Fixed exit code handling of sendmail cmd and added warnings.
  • Fixed bug GH-18897 (printf: empty precision is interpreted as precision 6, not as precision 0).
  • Fixed bug GH-20257 (mail() heap overflow with an empty message in lf mode).
  • Fixed bug GH-20201 (AVIF images misdetected as HEIF after introducing HEIF support in getimagesize()).
  • Fixed bug GH-19926 (reset internal pointer earlier while splicing array while COW violation flag is still set).
  • Fixed bug GH-19801 (leaks in var_dump() and debug_zval_dump()).
  • Fixed GH-14402 (SplPriorityQueue, SplMinHeap, and SplMaxHeap lost their data on serialize()).
  • Fixed GH-19610 (Deprecation warnings in functions taking as argument).
  • Fixed bug GH-19577 (Avoid integer overflow when using a small offset and PHP_INT_MAX with LimitIterator).
  • Fixed bug GH-19153 (#[\Attribute] validation should error on trait/interface/enum/abstract class).
  • Fixed bug GH-19070 (setlocale($type, NULL) should not be deprecated).
  • Fixed bug GH-16649 (UAF during array_splice).
  • Passing strings which are not one byte long to ord() is now deprecated.
  • Passing integers outside the interval [0, 255] to chr() is now deprecated.
  • The socket_set_timeout() alias function has been deprecated.
  • Passing null to readdir(), rewinddir(), and closedir() to use the last opened directory has been deprecated.

Streams

  • Fixed bug GH-16889 (stream_select() timeout useless for pipes on Windows).
  • Fixed bug GH-19798: XP_SOCKET XP_SSL (Socket stream modules): Incorrect condition for Win32/Win64.
  • Fixed bug GH-14506 (Closing a userspace stream inside a userspace handler causes heap corruption).
  • Avoid double conversion to string in php_userstreamop_readdir().

Tests

  • Allow to shuffle tests even in non-parallel mode.

Tidy

  • tidy::__construct/parseFile/parseString methods throw an exception if the configuration argument is invalid.
  • Fixed GH-19021 (improved tidyOptGetCategory detection).

Tokenizer

  • Fixed bug GH-19507 (Corrupted result after recursive tokenization during token_get_all()).

Windows

  • Fixed bug GH-10992 (Improper long path support for relative paths).
  • Fixed bug GH-16843 (Windows phpize builds ignore source subfolders).
  • Fix GH-19722 (_get_osfhandle asserts in debug mode when given a socket).

XML

  • The xml_parser_free() function has been deprecated.

XMLWriter

  • Improved performance and reduce memory consumption.

XSL

  • Implement request #30622 (make $namespace parameter functional).

Zlib

  • gzfile, gzopen and readgzfile, their "use_include_path" argument is now a boolean.
  • Fixed bug GH-16883 (gzopen() does not use the default stream context when opening HTTP URLs).
  • Implemented GH-17668 (zlib streams should support locking).

Zip

  • Fixed missing zend_release_fcall_info_cache on the following methods ZipArchive::registerProgressCallback() and ZipArchive::registerCancelCallback() on failure.