Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6

On Monday, 13 July 2026 at 17:04, Gina P. Banyard <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tuesday, 7 July 2026 at 12:54, Gina P. Banyard <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Monday, 22 June 2026 at 14:13, Gina P. Banyard <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > Hello internals,
> > >
> > > It is this time of year again where we proposed a list of deprecations to add in PHP 8.6:
> > >
> > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6
> > >
> > > As a reminder, this list has been compiled over the course of the past year by different people.
> > >
> > > And as usual, each deprecation will be voted in isolation.
> > >
> > > We still have a bit of time anyone else to propose additional deprecations, and if you have write access feel free to add them directly to the RFC.
> > > Please note that with the new RFC policy rules the RFC must be finalized and in a "frozen" state by the 13th of July at the latest.
> > >
> > > Some deprecations should be non-controversial, others a bit more.
> > > If a deprecation is really controversial, it might warrant its own dedicated RFC or be dropped altogether.
> >
> > Reminder that there is less than a single week for adding deprecations before the RFC needs to be in a frozen state.
> > A few people have added new ones and some were sent directly to me which I just added.
> > I also reordered some of the deprecations to group them together in somewhat more logical places.
> >
> > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6
> >
> > If anyone has any issues or additional proposals they can still be added or amended.
> > If none are added or amended, I will initiate a call to vote next week.
> 
> The RFC is now *frozen* no new proposals will be accepted.
> As some were added during the past week minimum of 2 weeks discussion is necessary.
> Amendments to existing proposals can be made ONLY IF they are minor changes according to the policy.
> I will initiate a call to vote next week on Monday (the 20th) for the following Monday (the 27th) so that the vote is done by the 10th of August.
> This should hopefully mean that most accepted proposals can land with 8.6.0beta1.

As said last week, I intend to open the vote next Monday (the 27th of July) for 2 weeks so that the vote is finished on time for 8.6.

Best regards,

Gina P. Banyard