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🎉 PHP 8.6.0 Alpha 2 is available for testing!

This continues the PHP 8.6 release cycle, featuring:

- #[\Override] on class constants
- CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION (et al)
- Improved ZTS performance
- Improved error messages in SOAP
- Improved error messages for truncated JSON

… and more!

✅ Test your projects
❌ Not for production

Congrats @joepferguson, @mbeccati, and Daniel Scherzer

🔗 https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-07-16-1

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🎉 PHP 8.6.0 Alpha 2 is available for testing!

This continues the PHP 8.6 release cycle, featuring:

- #[\Override] on class constants
- CURLOPT_SEEKFUNCTION (et al)
- Improved ZTS performance
- Improved error messages in SOAP
- Improved error messages for truncated JSON

… and more!

✅ Test your projects
❌ Not for production

Congrats @joepferguson, @mbeccati, and Daniel Scherzer

🔗 https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-07-16-1

#PHP #Release #PHP86

🎉 PHP 8.6.0 Alpha 1 is available for testing!

In this very initial preview for PHP 8.6, we have:

- A new scalable polling API in Io\Poll
- class Uri\Rfc3986\UriBuilder
- Improved JSON error messages including error positions
- ReflectionProperty::isReadable() and ::isWritable()
- clamp()
- enum SortDirection

… and more!

✅ Test your projects
❌ Not for production

Congrats @joepferguson, @mbeccati, and Daniel Scherzer

🔗 https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-07-02-3

#PHP #Release #PHP86

🎉 PHP 8.6.0 Alpha 1 is available for testing!

In this very initial preview for PHP 8.6, we have:

- A new scalable polling API in Io\Poll
- class Uri\Rfc3986\UriBuilder
- Improved JSON error messages including error positions
- ReflectionProperty::isReadable() and ::isWritable()
- clamp()
- enum SortDirection

… and more!

✅ Test your projects
❌ Not for production

Congrats @joepferguson, @mbeccati, and Daniel Scherzer

🔗 https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-07-02-3

#PHP #Release #PHP86

We are looking for Release Managers for PHP 8.6.

If that is interesting to you, check out the internals mailing list announcement:

🔗 https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130240

#PHP #PHP86

We are looking for Release Managers for PHP 8.6.

If that is interesting to you, check out the internals mailing list announcement:

🔗 https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130240

#PHP #PHP86

🚀 #PHP 8.6 introduces Partial Application
Functions can be partially applied, returning a Closure where remaining parameters are supplied later. This reduces boilerplate, simplifies callbacks and supports cleaner functional programming patterns 💡

More details: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/08/partial-application/

#PHP #PHP86 #WebDev

🚀 #PHP 8.6 introduces Partial Application
Functions can be partially applied, returning a Closure where remaining parameters are supplied later. This reduces boilerplate, simplifies callbacks and supports cleaner functional programming patterns 💡

More details: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/08/partial-application/

#PHP #PHP86 #WebDev