Hi internals,
This is your one week warning for the PHP 8.5 branch cut.
Next Tuesday (September 23) I will be creating the PHP-8.5 branch as part
of the packaging of PHP 8.5.0RC1. At that point, master will be for PHP
8.6, and the default will be that changes target PHP 8.6. If patches need
to be made against PHP 8.5, please ping the PHP 8.5 release managers team
for review.
The branch cut also represents the "hard feature freeze" - even features
that would not need to go through an RFC cannot be incorporated into PHP
8.5 at that point and will need to wait.
For those of us with karma, after the branch cut the merge workflow for bug
fixes will change - PHP 8.4 will get merged into PHP 8.5, and PHP 8.5 into
master. Please keep an eye on GitHub if you are going to be merging bug
fixes to ensure that your merges are applied to the correct branches.
Your PHP 8.5 RM team,
Daniel Scherzer, Volker Dusch, and Pierrick Charron