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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecations for PHP 8.5
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From: internals@gpb.moe ("Gina P. Banyard")

On Friday, 25 July 2025 at 13:56, Gina P. Banyard <internals@gpb.moe> wrote=
:

> Hello internals,
>=20
> As Tim announced a few days ago, I've opened the votes for the deprecatio=
ns:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5
>=20
> 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.
>=20

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 de=
fault values (21 yay, 2 nay, 89.5%)
- Deprecate ArrayObject and ArrayIterator with objects (26 yay, 0 nay, 100%=
)
- Deprecate SplObjectStorage::contains(), SplObjectStorage::attach(), and S=
plObjectStorage::detach() (17 yay, 2 nay, 89.5%)
- Deprecate passing spl_autoload_call() to spl_autoload_unregister() (23 ya=
y, 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, 9=
1.7%)
- [ODBC] Remove flags for building against specific drivers directly (16 ya=
y, 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, 1=
00%)
- 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 y=
ay, 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