PHP 8.5.0beta3: Downloads, Changelog, News

Release Information

Release
8.5.0beta3
PHP Version
PHP 8.5
Release Date
Release Type
Bug Fix Release
Release Status
QA Release Latest
Branch Status
Upcoming Release

PHP 8.5 is a development version, and is not recommended for production use. PHP 8.5 is scheduled to reach General Availability on 2025-11-20. This is the latest QA release in the series.

Downloads

Source Code

Git Clone
Use Git to clone the 8.5.0beta3 tag from the PHP Git repository.
git clone https://github.com/php/php-src.git --depth 1 --branch php-8.5.0beta3
How to compile PHP
PHP can be compiled by setting up the dependencies, building the configure script (./buildconf), configuring the build ./configure, and running make.
Detailed articles on how to compile PHP are available for Ubuntu/Debian based systems and Fedora/RHEL based systems.

Windows binaries
Non-Thread Safe Builds
Non-Thread Safe (NTS) builds are single-threaded PHP builds. They can be used on web servers that integrate PHP over FastCGI protocol, such as Nginx, Caddy, and IIS.
Thread-Safe Builds
Thread-Safe (TS) builds are multi-thread PHP builds, often used to integrate PHP as a Server API for multithreaded servers. The most common use case is using PHP as an Apache module.

Docker/Podman Containers

PHP CLI
PHP CLI Containers images only include the PHP CLI, and no FPM or Apache modules. The Alpine builds are lightweight, but may introduce incompatibilities due to their musl builds. Albeit their larger size, the Debian-based (without the "-alpine" suffix) images are more complete, and widely used.

Alpine-based: Lightweight, but may introduce incompatibilities due to their musl builds.
docker pull php:8.5.0beta3-cli-alpine

Debian-based: More compatible with other components, complete, and are widely used.
docker pull php:8.5.0beta3-cli
PHP CLI + Web Server Integration
These container images include PHP CLI, and a web server integration. FPM container images can be integrated with web servers such as Nginx, Caddy, and Apache with Event MPM. The Apache container images include Apache web server, integrating PHP as an Apache module.

Alpine-based: Lightweight, but may introduce incompatibilities due to their musl builds.
docker pull php:8.5.0beta3-fpm-alpine

Debian-based ZTS Apache: Includes Apache web server integrating PHP as an Apache module.
docker pull php:8.5.0beta3-apache

Debian-based NTS FPM: PHP-FPM, can be integrated with Nginx, Caddy, and other web servers over Fast CGI.
docker pull php:8.5.0beta3-fpm

ChangeLog

Core

  • Destructing non-array values (other than NULL) using [] or list() now emits a warning.
  • Fixed bug GH-19637 (Incorrect Closure scope for FCC in constant expression).
  • Fixed bug GH-19613 (Stale array iterator pointer).
  • Fixed bug GH-19679 (zend_ssa_range_widening may fail to converge).
  • Using null as an array offset or when calling array_key_exists() is now deprecated.
  • Fixed bug GH-19681 (PHP_EXPAND_PATH broken with bash 5.3.0).
  • Marks the stack as non-executable on Haiku.
  • Deriving $_SERVER['argc'] and $_SERVER['argv'] from the query string is now deprecated.

CLI

  • Fixed bug GH-19461 (Improve error message on listening error with IPv6 address).

Date

  • Fixed date_sunrise() and date_sunset() with partial-hour UTC offset.

EXIF

  • Added support to retrieve Exif from HEIF file.

FPM

  • Fixed failed debug assertion when php_admin_value setting fails.

Filter

  • Fixed bug GH-16993 (filter_var_array with FILTER_VALIDATE_INT|FILTER_NULL_ON_FAILURE should emit warning for invalid filter usage).

Intl

  • Added grapheme_strpos(), grapheme_stripos(), grapheme_strrpos(), grapheme_strripos(), grapheme_strstr(), grapheme_stristr() and grapheme_levenshtein() functions add $locale parameter
  • Fixed bug GH-11952 (Fix locale strings canonicalization for IntlDateFormatter and NumberFormatter).

ODBC

  • Removed driver-specific build flags and support.

Opcache

  • 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).

PCRE

  • Upgraded to pcre2lib from 10.45 to 10.46.

PDO

  • Driver specific methods in the PDO class are now deprecated.

PDO_SQLITE

  • Add PDO`Sqlite::ATTR_TRANSACTION_MODE` connection attribute.

Reflection

  • Fix GH-19691 (getModifierNames() not reporting asymmetric visibility).

Session

  • Fix RC violation of session SID constant deprecation attribute.

Standard

  • Fix 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).
  • Implement GH-19188: Add support for new INI mail.cr_lf_mode.

Streams

  • Fixed bug GH-14506 (Closing a userspace stream inside a userspace handler causes heap corruption).
  • Avoid double conversion to string in php_userstreamop_readdir().

URI

  • Added support for Uri\Rfc3986\Uri::with*() methods.
  • Fixed memory management of Uri\WhatWg\Url objects.
  • Fixed memory management of the internal "parse_url" URI parser.
  • Fixed double-free when assigning to $errors fails when using the Uri\WhatWg\Url parser.
  • Reject out-of-range ports when using the Uri\Rfc3986\Uri parser.
  • Return null instead of 0 for Uri\Rfc3986`Uri::getPort()` when the URI contains an empty port.
  • Fixed creation of the InvalidUrlException when not passing an errors zval to the internal whatwg parser.
  • Clean up naming of internal API.

Commit List

Alexandre Daubois

  • Remove mentions of PHP 9.0 in 1c664e1c74
  • core: Deprecate using null as an array offset and when calling array_key_exists() in GH-19511
  • Fix GH-19577: avoid integer overflow when using a small offset and PHP_INT_MAX with LimitIterator in GH-19585
  • Add NEWS missing entry in f0c531597c
  • Avoid using unsafe sprintf() in GH-19598
  • Fix GH-19461: Improve error message on listening error with IPv6 in GH-19462
  • Fix NEWS entry order in 0e668e517a
  • Fix GH-19188: Add support for new INI mail.cr_lf_mode in GH-19238
  • Fix GH-16993: Fix filter_var_array to warn when validation filters are incorrectly combined with FILTER_NULL_ON_FAILURE flag in GH-19660
  • Fix GH-11952: better locale strings canonicalization for IntlDateFormatter and NumberFormatter in GH-19593
  • Reorder intl NEWS entry in 124540a29c
  • Fix intl tests naming in GH-19763
  • Fix memory leak when providing an invalid locale to IntlDateFormatter in GH-19764
  • Use zend_string API for mail.cr_lf_mode validation in GH-19759

Arnaud Le Blanc

  • Fix incorrect opline after deoptimization in 0fe24447bc
  • Move NEWS entry in dee0042502
  • Fix JIT stack setup on aarch64/clang in 95d52d52da
  • Fix opcache.huge_code_pages in 0ee7732c01
  • Deprecate driver specific PDO methods in a4afc57f1d
  • Fix ZTS+JIT build on non-glibc/musl/freebsd/macos/win platforms in 3625cbb344
  • Ensure that type widening converges in bd88a54934

benstone

  • Add support for retrieving Exif from HEIF file in 7d5c8dad3b

Calvin Buckley

  • Remove driver specific support from ODBC in GH-15727

Danack

  • Check if the macro AC_PROG_CC_C99 actually made the compiler accept C99 code. in GH-6317

Daniel Scherzer

  • gen_stub: Infer constants' types from values in GH-19568
  • GH-19691: Add asymmetric visibility to Reflection::getModifierNames() in GH-19697
  • [RFC] Allow #[\Deprecated] on traits in GH-19045

David Carlier

David CARLIER

  • ext/pdo_pgsql: [RFC] Deprecate PGSQLTRANSACTION constants. in GH-19594

Derick Rethans

  • Write up NEWS rules in GH-19387
  • Improve accuracy of ext_stmt emits during pipe operations in d85662d6cc

Dmitry Stogov

George Wang

Gina Peter Banyard

  • ext/opcache: Add missing INI setting in test in 5d5ef5050a
  • ext/standard: Fix GH-19610 (Deprecation warnings in functions taking as argument) in GH-19611
  • Zend: Warn when destructuring non-array values in GH-19439
  • Update NEWS/UPGRADING for destructing non-array values in 34a0bcf103
  • sapi/fuzzer: Fix disabling of InfiniteIterator in GH-19668
  • Update NEWS and UPGRADING with entry for null as array offset in a13dc047ac

Ilija Tovilo

  • Fix RC violation of session SID constant deprecation attribute in b7d66189cb
  • Fix glob() RC info in a544fe107e
  • Use ull integer suffix for bitwise logic (GH-19673) in 8a4cbde8c7
  • Fix date_sunrise() and date_sunset() with partial-hour UTC offset in 0ae9a58ade
  • Fix RC assertion in fpm when php_admin_value setting fails in 15beb140e5
  • Stale array iterator pointer in f9ce6d8f3a

Jakub Zelenka

  • Use the default OpenSSL version for MacOS to match libs in 6194084837

Joe Watkins

  • Revert "Remove include "sanity check" to get better error (#19650)" in cb9af8d532

Jorg Adam Sowa

  • ext/mbstring: Use internal_encoding INI setting instead of mb_internal_encoding() in tests in GH-19663

Marc Bennewitz

  • Mysqlnd: Removed useless precompilter cond in GH-19120

Máté Kocsis

  • Update uriparser to version 0.9.9 in GH-19711
  • Add support for Uri\Rfc3986\Uri withers in GH-19636

Niels Dossche

  • Update pcre2lib from 10.45 to 10.46 in GH-19618
  • Use RETURN_EMPTY_ARRAY() on empty glob returns in GH-19642
  • Fix GH-19612: Mitigate libxml2 tree dictionary bug in 080fd14458
  • Fix disabling of InfiniteIterator in fuzzer in GH-19690
  • Fix GH-14506: Closing a userspace stream inside a userspace handler causes heap corruption in 4b99519eaa
  • Remove incorrect call to zval_ptr_dtor() in user_wrapper_metadata() in d10ff9bbd8
  • Avoid double conversion to string in php_userstreamop_readdir() in d0630e850b
  • Fix memory leak in zip when encountering empty glob result in 216e87ad7e
  • Fix GH-19720: Assertion failure when error handler throws when accessing a deprecated constant in 9d69ab91ab
  • Fix GH-19706: dba stream resource mismanagement in f744c827a8
  • Fix memory leak in phar tar temporary file error handling code in 2f162214e8
  • Remove pointless zval_ptr_dtor() calls in userspace stream handling in GH-19712
  • Fix metadata leak when phar convert logic fails in c50b37d231
  • Fix memory leak on failure in phar_convert_to_other() in 98bb934685
  • Fix OSS-Fuzz #385993744 in ff84cb08ef
  • Fix GH-19752: Phar decompression with invalid extension can cause UAF in f6878b6ccf

Nikita Popov

  • Remove include "sanity check" to get better error in GH-19650

Remi Collet

Samuel Štancl

tekimen

  • [RFC] Add a locale for grapheme case-insensitive functions in GH-18792

Tim Düsterhus

  • uri/standard: Move the parse_url() URI parser into ext/uri/ in GH-19587
  • zend_weakrefs: Remove layer of indirection in zend_weakrefs_hash_clean() in GH-19580
  • uri: Stop touching the lxb_url_parser_t.idna field in GH-19592
  • uri: Fix lexbor memory management in uri_parser_whatwg.c in GH-19591
  • uri: Fix normalization memory management for uri_parser_php_parse_url.c in GH-19600
  • NEWS for recent ext/uri changes (GH-19587, GH-19591, GH-19600) in e844e68af8
  • main: Change the register_argc_argv INI default to Off in GH-19473
  • random: Use ->default_object_handlers for engines in GH-19625
  • zend_ast: Mark zend_ast_list_add() as ZEND_ATTRIBUTE_NODISCARD in GH-19632
  • Optimizer/zend_dump: Fix printing of the exception table in GH-19634
  • uri: Always use const pointers when referring to uri_parser_t in GH-19623
  • uri: Use has_text_range() in php_uri_parser_rfc3986_scheme_read() in GH-19621
  • uri: Fix memory safety violations when assigning $errors by reference fails in GH-19628
  • github/labeler.yml: Add “ABI break” label for ext/uri header changes in 22252b03fe
  • uri: Remove useless uri_property_handlers_t struct in GH-19622
  • uri: Retrieve “raw” representation for ->getPort() in GH-19646
  • opcache: Improve error messages when “temporarily enabling OPcache” in GH-19619
  • uri: Reject ports overflowing zend_long for uri_parser_rfc3986 in GH-19644
  • Fix organization of UPGRADING.INTERNALS in GH-19635
  • zend_ast: Fix Closure scope for FCC in constant expression in GH-19639
  • fpm: Improve the error message when FPM is running as root in GH-19695
  • uri: Stop accessing a private header to retrieve the uriparser version in GH-19678
  • uri: Show the uriparser runtime version in PHPInfo in GH-19718
  • uri: Fix handling of empty ports for uri_parser_rfc3986 in GH-19645
  • uri: Call the proper clone_obj handler in uri_write_component_ex() in GH-19649
  • uri: Do not copy the normalized URI when cloning RFC 3986 URIs in GH-19588
  • uri: Improve safety of URI object initialization in GH-19648
  • uri: Fix handling of the errors == NULL && !silent for uri_parser_whatwg in GH-19748
  • uri: Make the .free_uri handlers safe to call with NULL in GH-19627
  • main: Deprecate deriving $_SERVER['argc'] and $_SERVER['argv'] from the query string in GH-19606

Volker Dusch

  • Update versions for PHP 8.5.0beta3 in 03c9d2303e
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