Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecations for PHP 8.5

On Friday, 25 July 2025 at 13:56, Gina P. Banyard <internals@gpb.moe> wrote: > Hello internals, > > As Tim announced a few days ago, I've opened the votes for the deprecations: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5 > > Please remember that the wiki is only capable to handle a single vote at a time, > so please submit each vote you intend on casting individually. > Hello internals, After two weeks of voting, I closed the votes of the "Deprecations for PHP 8.5" RFC at 19:45 UTC. The following proposals have been accepted: - Deprecate semicolon after case in switch statement (22 yay, 10 nay, 68.8%) - Deprecate non-standard cast names (32 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate backticks as an alias for shell_exec (21 yay, 8 nay, 72.4%) - Deprecate the __sleep() and __wakeup() magic methods (18 yay, 9 nay, 66.7%) - Deprecate using values null as an array offset and when calling array_key_exists() (25 yay, 3 nay, 89.3%) - Deprecate __debugInfo() returning null (22 yay, 5 nay, 81.5%) - Deprecate constant redeclaration (31 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate closure binding issues (29 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Enact follow-up phase of the "Path to Saner Increment/Decrement operators" RFC (23 yay, 4 nay, 85.2%) - Deprecate the report_memleaks INI directive (23 yay, 2 nay, 92.0%) - Deprecate the register_argc_argv INI directive (27 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Remove disable_classes INI setting (26 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate Reflection*::setAccessible() (24 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate ReflectionClass::getConstant() for missing constants (25 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate ReflectionProperty::getDefaultValue() for properties without default values (21 yay, 2 nay, 89.5%) - Deprecate ArrayObject and ArrayIterator with objects (26 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate SplObjectStorage::contains(), SplObjectStorage::attach(), and SplObjectStorage::detach() (17 yay, 2 nay, 89.5%) - Deprecate passing spl_autoload_call() to spl_autoload_unregister() (23 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate the $exclude_disabled parameter of get_defined_functions() (23 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate passing null to readdir(), rewinddir(), and closedir() (24 yay, 3 nay, 88.9%) - Deprecate passing string which are not one byte long to ord() (20 yay, 4 nay, 83.3%) - Deprecate passing integers outside the interval [0, 255] to chr() (21 yay, 1 nay, 95.5%) - Formally deprecate socket_set_timeout (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate the $http_response_header predefined variable (22 yay, 2 nay, 91.7%) - [ODBC] Remove flags for building against specific drivers directly (16 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Remove support for older ODBC versions (15 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate PDO's 'uri:' scheme (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate driver specific PDO constants and methods (17 yay, 6 nay, 73.9%) - Deprecate Pdo\Pgsql constants related to statement transaction state (17 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate finfo_close() (24 yay, 2 nay, 92.3%) - Deprecate xml_parser_free() (22 yay, 2 nay, 91.7%) - Deprecate curl_close() (23 yay, 3 nay, 88.5%) - Deprecate curl_share_close() (23 yay, 3 nay, 88.5%) - Deprecate imagedestroy() (23 yay, 2 nay, 92.0%) - Deprecate key_length parameter of openssl_pkey_derive() (24 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate intl.error_level INI setting (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Formally deprecate mysqli_execute() (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate building ext/ldap against Oracle LDAP (19 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate the $context parameter for finfo_buffer() (24 yay, 0 nay, 100%) - Deprecate DATE_RFC7231 and DateTimeInterface::RFC7231 (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%) And the following proposals have been rejected: - Deprecate attributes applying to multiple class properties/constants (5 yay, 19 nay, 20.8%) - Deprecate ReflectionParameter::allowsNull() (9 yay, 10 nay, 47.4%) - Deprecate non-canonical type names for settype() (8 yay, 10 nay, 44.4%) - Deprecate FILTER_DEFAULT constant (12 yay, 10 nay, 54.5%) - Make $filter parameter mandatory for filter_*() functions (9 yay, 10 nay, 47.4%) - Deprecate PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING error mode (8 yay, 12 nay, 40.0%) Thank you to everyone that has voted and participated in the discussions. Best regards, Gina P. Banyard