RFC Tracker

Allows specific literal values such as 1 or "draft" as types, like the existing true and false types.

Makes closures declared in constant expressions serializable by referencing the code that declares them.

Adds an engine-level scheduler on top of Fibers so async libraries can share one concurrency model.

Bundles a user_cache extension for keeping userland data in memory across requests.

Adds a left-to-right assignment operator to end long pipe chains by assigning the result.

Lets a pipe chain end in return, so "Hello World" |> strlen(...) |> return; returns the result reading left to right.

Sets up working groups to own the PHP project's operational side, like infrastructure and releases.

Makes HTML markup a first-class PHP expression you can compose, return and pass around.

Adds an opt-in mode where unqualified function and constant names stop falling back to the global namespace.

Adds grapheme_mask() for masking sensitive data safely in multibyte and emoji-heavy strings.

Lets a class declare constructor parameters in its header, lifting property promotion out of __construct().

Sets rules for the PHP project's official social media accounts: who holds the credentials, who posts, and how accounts are added or retired.

Adds friend classes that may access another class's protected members.

A closure variant for callbacks that run inside the function that defines them, with access to its variables.

Adds a using keyword and a ContextManager interface, borrowed from Python, that guarantee setup and cleanup around a block of code.

Adds MariaDB-specific features to mysqlnd and mysqli.

An official, rolling php-community release that ships experimental features ahead of regular PHP versions.

Prevents instantiating and cloning the internal __PHP_Incomplete_Class.

Adds a readonly modifier for local variables, so reassigning one after its first assignment throws an error.

Adds optional crc-fast support to ext/hash for SIMD-accelerated CRC-32 and CRC-64, plus the CRC-64/NVME checksum AWS S3 uses.