PHP 8.6.0beta1: Downloads, Changelog, News

Arnaud Le Blanc

• Follow-up GH-22829 in a652a00c02
• CS in 40c3e247f9
• php_printf: introduce %pS to replace custom specifier %S in GH-22930
• JIT: Preserve parent regs in zend_jit_deoptimizer_start() in GH-22916

Calvin Buckley

• odbc: Quote spaces in UID/PWD appended to connection string in GH-22791
• zend_call_stack.c: AIX backend in GH-22906
• Remove php_error_docref_unchecked in GH-23042
• TSRM: don't use initial-exec on AIX in GH-23145

coderZhao

• Fix GH-22857: Function JIT emits wrong code for FETCH_OBJ_FUNC_ARG on a property hook in GH-22897

Daniel Scherzer

• Reflection: Add regression tests for error messages with null bytes in 14b6cd3636
• GH-22905: avoid truncation on null bytes in reflection exceptions in 866696459a
• NEWS for PHP 8.4 in 1c491e67c0
• NEWS for PHP 8.5 in 97e0b1c785
• NEWS for master in cb6262142e
• Reflection: use new %pS format specifier in GH-23005

David Carlier

• ext/standard: stream_filter_register() orphaned user_filter_map on shutdown re-registration in 46352f7ead
• Use zend_hash_add_new_ptr() for the user_filter_map insertion in 33cdf36326
• ext/sysvshm: do not trust $size when opening an existing segment in f0d244ab3e
• ext/intl: GH-20255 IntlDateFormatter adding proleptic gregorian calendar support in 25a2d9755e
• ext/intl: introduce SpoofChecker::areBidiConfusable in f985f774c6
• ext/intl: Add Spoofchecker::getSkeleton() in 8ecc1a67f6
• Zend: include() with a non-literal argument reads out of bounds with error_include_args=1 in bf2ba7a800
• Zend: is_callable() wrongly accepts objects with no get_closure handler in bb0ab98b9d
• ext/libxml: Fix build failure with libxml2 2.15 in bc7537dbf0
• ext/zip: addGlob() and addPattern() ignore their default options in 8d5b0d6fb4
• ext/intl: IntlNumberRangeFormatter::format() crash when the formatting fails in 2f08d44e86

David CARLIER

• ext/intl: get_icu_value_internal() to reduce manual memory manageme… in GH-19433

Derick Rethans

• Update to timelib 2026.01 in 69b6debd80
• Adjust test for slightly different behaviour with empty strings in cc6a8c6542
• Update timelib to 2026.02 in 389d4a71e4

Gina Peter Banyard

• streams: various small refactoring for stream error API in GH-22847
• Zend: add _ex variants for calling known functions/FCC in GH-22910
• zip: convert ZIP option remove_path to zend_string* in bcb05dcf6f
• zip: convert ZIP option add_path to zend_string* in 0d440d3768
• zip: add static storage specifier for private functions in 6739acedc8
• zip: use zend_string* to build entry_name in 73e3e054e2
• std: add test for unserialize_callback_func INI setting in 5226e2f49f
• streams: refactor _php_stream_opendir() to use early returns in 0c84160e11
• streams: use new stream error API in _php_stream_opendir() in 29c237bf88
• main: convert unserialize_callback_func global to zend_string* in c82acefe47
• main: convert last_error_lineno global to type uint32_t in 6877f77c62
• main: group Windows globals together in 1de8f4f16d
• main: convert doc_root global to zend_string* in 1b204626c5
• main: convert error_log global to zend_string* in 9362fc793c
• main: convert output_handler global to zend_string* in e0221be81e
• streams: refactor _php_stream_open_wrapper_ex() to use early returns in d75f79e2ac
• streams: use php_stream_wrapper_warn() in _php_stream_open_wrapper_ex() in f9ac6c13c4
• streams: use common cleanup code in _php_stream_open_wrapper_ex() in 605ff6e11b
• ext/standard: Throw ValueError for filenames with null bytes in d3c95d1745
• ext/standard: Refactor php_stat() API in 732243fb66
• Zend: reuse zend_parse_arg_func() in zend_parse_arg_impl() in GH-22937
• sapi: convert current_user field to zend_string* in GH-22902
• streams: check class exists when attempting to register stream filter in GH-22823
• ext/reflection: move ReflectionAttribute tests into subfolder in ee019fab5a
• ext/reflection: add namespace methods to ReflectionAttribute in 9e9445f742
• NEWS/UPGRADING entries for new ReflectionAttribute methods in 9ed85af67e
• main: duplicate PG(output_handler) zstr in deb6ef1db1
• output: only use FCC for storing user output handler in GH-22815
• standard/fpt_fopen_wrapper: use size_t instead of int in ec80461431
• standard/http_fopen_wrapper: add const qualifiers in 9658dfc1f3
• serializer: move unserialize_callback_func INI tests to subfolder in 1b061f851c
• serializer: more unserialize_callback_func INI tests with different types of string callables in ec562d07d2
• serializer: must duplicate unserialize_callback_func global zstr in 79d76a560a
• Zend: move '\' and lowercase handling to zend_fetch_function() in GH-22966
• streams: call php_stream_wrapper_warn calls checking REPORT_ERRORS is set in GH-22965
• Zend: pass callable as zend_string* in zend_is_callable_check_func() in 65fe066d0f
• Zend: rename zend_is_callable_check_func function in 46ab695271
• Zend: use bool type for call_via_handler variable in c309ad8124
• Zend: move and rename some zend_string definitions in 4c3bd1a915
• Zend: remove goto in zend_is_callable_at_frame() in af7a6c704a
• Zend: unify cleanup in zend_is_callable_at_frame() in 76e0734ec5
• Zend: move true function search out of main callability check in 0dc8a54f62
• spl: use zend_call_known_function() when possible in GH-22972
• Zend: ZPP use uint32_t type for variable storing result of ZEND_CALL_NUM_ARGS() in 41b4d43d3e
• Zend: move some basic forwarding function definitions to the header in GH-22936
• Zend: use C enum for ZPP error states in add8d542b6
• Zend: Remove ZPP_ERROR_WRONG_COUNT case in bbf82d7a84
• Zend: handle non-string arguments for ZPP class-string specifier as expected in GH-23001
• Zend: remove zend_get_compiled_variable_value() in GH-23013
• calendar: improve ValueError for jdtounix() in 588dd0445c
• Zend: remove zend_save_error_handling() in GH-23011
• tests: remove unnecessary ZPP tests in GH-23020
• Fix GH-23082: unserialize_callback_func can no longer be reset to its empty default at runtime in GH-23096
• Zend: mark zend_unfinished_calls_gc() as static in GH-23012
• Zend: deprecate naming a function readonly in a9ba369abe
• standard: deprecate passing an object to array_walk{_recursive}() in 7e0d5c75e7
• zlib: deprecate passing objects as array in f8c854e82f
• bz2: deprecate passing objects as array in 3fda4e9c18
• mbstring: deprecate passing objects as vars to mb_convert_variables() in 7cc143235d
• standard: deprecate aliases with non canonical type name in 0b14af3b98
• standard: deprecate strcoll and SORT_LOCALE_STRING in 22217b3bbb
• Zend: move builtin function tests into subfolder in 75abe1c654
• Zend: deprecate passing a 3rd argument to define() in acd342d82d
• spl: deprecate spl_object_hash() in 2c1c61de07
• spl: deprecate spl_classes() in 6214a21659
• spl: deprecate ArrayIterator methods that make little sense in e95647ce36
• Zend: remove zend_parse_parameter() in GH-23051
• Amend UPGRADING for recent deprecations and engine API changes in 34f5a729d3
• zlib: Add test with invalid levels in 1cf82bef0a
• zlib: use new stream error API in 148afdb60a
• standard: deprecate passing objects to http_build_query() in GH-23202
• Update NEWS/UPGRADING for deprecations in 969a50d995

Holly Schilling

• Improve asymmetric visibility write performance in fast path (GH-22709) in 94136cf9bf

Ilia Alshanetsky

• Free the hooked property value when json_encode() sees an exception in c35253d364
• Add NOT_SERIALIZABLE to XMLWriter, XMLReader, SNMP, tidy, and tidyNode in GH-21694
• Free previous state when re-calling Reflection*::__construct() in 87f8d17426
• zip: require remove_path to be shorter than the path it strips in GH-22973
• Parse qualified reflection names with a length-aware search in 3a9d86a81b
• Avoid truncation on null bytes in class and function names in 841fe26c11
• Check object_init_ex() in ReflectionMethod::createFromMethodName() in b80ef095ea
• Resolve the effective property in ReflectionProperty lazy APIs in ae42ecf1f3
• sysvmsg/sysvsem: fix IPC_PRIVATE and out-of-range key handling in GH-22956
• ext/sysvshm: don't orphan the segment shm_attach() just created in a72e0636fe
• zip: skip the entry name allocation when there is no add_path in GH-22975
• streams: tidy the wrapper error log when the opener succeeds in GH-22977
• Fix GH-23016: pdo_odbc returns garbage for NULL long columns in 05202568c4
• sapi/cli: guard Content-Length overflow and enforce post_max_size in GH-22017
• SAPI: clear current_user and content_type_dup after releasing them in GH-22974
• Fix SimpleXML integer offsets that cannot resolve aliasing a node in 9e696413e8
• Reject NUL bytes in the SimpleXMLElement constructor in GH-23069
• Balance stream error ops on file_put_contents LOCK_EX URL reject in GH-23186
• Honor ERRMODE_SILENT in pdo_raise_impl_error in GH-23070
• Fix segfault comparing uninitialized SimpleXMLElement instances in 7b1f5637b6
• Fix use-after-free when __clone() retains the stylesheet copy in 11047a7a66
• Bound the HEIF meta box allocation by the file size in 82ac0da470

Ilija Tovilo

• Fix use-after-free in OpenSSL empty cafile warning (GH-22880) in d2780bcbae
• Fix test file conflict in facf3f99cf
• Add stateless closure cache in f47cd216e9

Jakub Zelenka

• Add stream socket so_linger context option in GH-20808

Joe Ferguson

• Update versions for PHP 8.6.0beta1 in 8d8126a497

Jorg Adam Sowa

• Use zend_hash_find_ptr_lc() for case-insensitive name lookups (batch 2) in GH-22591
• Add tests for session_regenerate_id() write/destroy failure paths in GH-22687

Kamil Tekiela

• mysqli: Deprecate mysqli_get_charset() in GH-23206

lazerg

• Fix GH-23116 and GH-23117: stack overflow when normalizing a deeply nested document in GH-23127

Lazizbek Ergashev

• Fix GH-22206: Enable the TAILCALL VM only on Clang in GH-23054
• Add a stack limit check in zend_hash_compare() in GH-23090
• Add a stack limit check in php_array_walk() in GH-23125
• Add a stack limit check in php_array_replace_recursive in GH-23124
• Add a stack limit check in php_compact_var() in GH-23126
• Add a stack limit check in php_count_recursive() in GH-23197
• Fix GH-23204: use-after-free when __toString() destroys an array argument in 8ce7f7f5e9

Lothar Serra Mari

• tests: Allow overriding TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE for FPM SAPI in GH-23087
• ext/gd: Fix two external libgd tests in GH-23138

Louis-Arnaud

• Enforce zero arity in apache_get_version() and apache_get_modules() in GH-23102

Mateusz Łukasik

• configure.ac: register main/io as a build directory in GH-22913

Matthias Goergens

• Fix mbregex search state after cache invalidation in 03a71535c3
• Fix mbregex search state after cache invalidation in da4b676047
• Fix mbregex search state after cache invalidation in efd178b1b6

mehmetcan

• Optimize array_intersect() using hash-based matching in GH-23019

Máté Kocsis

• Fix typed reference property writes during Uri\Rfc3986\UriBuilder::reset() in GH-23144

ndossche

• sqlite3: Fix leak when trying to close db if blob stream is still open in eaac0378e3
• session: fix corruption in mod_mm in a033601273
• Fix GH-23043: broken session id code can cause zend_mm_heap corrupted in 9366c61247
• Improve merge in d7911aa9ea

NickSdot

• Tests: Fixes leaked System V shared-memory segments in tests in GH-22911
• ext/mysqli: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-22929
• Run scandir overflow test on Windows only in GH-22934
• Prevents tests from leaking System V IPC objects in GH-22912
• ext/mbstring: applied fixers to improve test robustness in 7b78eb4fcc
• Applied fixers to improve test robustness (ext/intl, ext/phar) in GH-22985
• ext/random: applied fixers to improve test robustness in a5a94766b6
• ext/gmp: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-22987
• run-tests: run test subprocesses without a shell where possible in GH-22957
• Fix redirected-test progress accounting in parallel runs in GH-22952
• Applied fixers to improve test robustness to extensions with no code owners in GH-23018
• CI: fix test error in 588dd04 in GH-23033
• ext/intl: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23021
• ext/zip: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23034
• ext/pgsql: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23040
• ext/odbc: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23022
• ext/dba: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23027
• tests: Cache failed service probes in GH-22944
• ext/session: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23036
• tests: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-22988
• ext/hash: cleaned up test in GH-23041
• ext/spl: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23058
• Zend: add readonly reinitable helper in GH-22718
• ext/pdo_sqlite: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23032
• sapi/cli: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23137
• ext/pdo: applied fixers to improve test robustness in GH-23023
• Run tests in parallel by default in GH-22939
• CI: Select Windows test workers automatically in GH-22946
• core: Deprecate using namespace as class constant name in GH-22964
• ext/standard: improved tests in GH-23184
• perf: speed up benchmark checkout in GH-23211
• docs: Clarify --CREDITS-- section (GH-23215) in 1f1570906e

Nora Dossche

• Fix unchecked BN_bin2bn() call in GH-22754
• openssl: Fix checks on BIO_get_mem_ptr() in GH-20998
• Properly propagate X509_STORE_CTX_new() in GH-22625
• openssl: Check return value of SSL_CTX_set_alpn_protos() in GH-22996
• openssl: Check return value of SSL_CTX_set_alpn_protos() in GH-22996

Remi Collet

• Fix error: static declaration of copy_file_range follows non-static declaration in 774e5b6455

Rob Landers

• Update test file path for bug60771 in GH-22980

Shivam Mathur

• Fix hMailServer URL in Windows CI in GH-23055
• Fix Windows mail handling regressions in GH-23060
• ext/libxml: Export xmlCtxtSetOptions on Windows in GH-23178
• Fix GH-23120 test on Windows x86 in GH-23180
• Upgrade php-sdk to 2.8.2 in GH-23193

Sjoerd Langkemper

• ext/standard: Warn when number base conversion loses precision in GH-22371
• ext/standard: limit maximum number of filter chains in GH-22110
• ext/curl: error when curl read func returns unexpected long in ac37a9760b
• ext/curl: show curl option name in error message in GH-22908
• ext/curl: abort curl transfer if callback throws exception in GH-22745
• Zend: compile time assert on Bucket size in GH-23079

tekimen

• Update ext/mbstring/tests/gh21036.phpt in 0ee81b4060
• Update ext/mbstring/tests/gh21036.phpt in f699538427
• Update ext/mbstring/tests/gh21036.phpt in 0d9b381beb

Tim Düsterhus

• run-tests: Improve handling of test reproduction helpers in GH-23066
• date: Add new timelib/duration.c source file to autoconf in GH-23077
• Time\Duration in GH-23073
• standard: Take Time\Duration in Io\Poll\Context::wait() in GH-23092
• date: Fix Z_PARAM_DATE_TIME_DURATION() error handling in GH-23097
• date: Correctly handle Duration::__construct() calls in GH-23098
• standard: Fix error reporting for negative timeouts in Io\Poll\Context::wait() in GH-23099
• tree-wide: Generate nicer code in Z_PARAM_*() helpers wrapping Z_PARAM_*() in GH-23100

Volker Dusch

• RM docs: Update security release procedure in GH-22953

Weilin Du

• ext/gmp: Add gmp_powm_sec() in GH-22852
• ext/gmp: expose the possibility of being a prime in gmp_prevprime in GH-22907
• ext/intl: Fix Collator sort conversion error handling in GH-22893
• ext/standard: Fix phpcredits() heading alignment in GH-22918
• Fix GH-22935: Make php_hash.h includable from C++ code in GH-22940
• ext/soap: Fix SOAP classmap validation for integer keys in GH-22884
• Zend: Refactor deduplicate auto-global checks in GH-22963
• ext/intl: Reset IntlListFormatter error state in constructor in GH-22931
• ext/intl: Refactor global error resets in GH-22990
• Do not install internal main/io headers on Windows in GH-23003
• Zend: factor out guarded lazy-proxy forwarding in object handlers in GH-22983
• ext/readline: write test for readline CLI in GH-22994
• ext/readline: Fix flacky readline CLI pager test in 34a294993d
• ext/intl: Add SpoofChecker::getBidiSkeleton() in GH-23017
• Fix GH-23006: Correct phpcredits() full-page HTML title in GH-23007
• ext/intl: Include <limits> for std::numeric_limits in GH-23072
• ext/intl: Add IntlDatePatternGenerator skeleton methods in GH-23078
• Fix GH-23120: DOMNode::isEqualNode stack overflow on deeply nested trees in GH-23140
• ext/intl: Fix stale intl error state in IntlNumberRangeFormatter in GH-23191
• Zend: Name map ptr chunk size constants in GH-23109
• RFC: Deprecate metaphone() in GH-21889
• ext/opcache: Name map ptr chunk size constants in GH-23212