PHP 8.5.4 Released

1 month ago by Daniel Scherzer — view source — reply

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The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP
8.5.4. This is a bugfix release.

All PHP 8.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

For source downloads of PHP 8.5.4 please visit our downloads page.
Windows binaries can be found on the same page.
The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

Release Announcement: https://php.net/releases/8_5_4.php
Downloads: https://php.net/downloads
Changelog: https://php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.5.4
Release Manifest: <
https://gist.github.com/DanielEScherzer/a584b194fa50f798432ccfdcd503bc47>;

Many thanks to all the contributors and supporters!

Regards,
Daniel Scherzer, Volker Dusch, and Pierrick Charron

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1 month ago by Juliette Reinders Folmer — view source — reply

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...
For source downloads of PHP 8.5.4 please visit our downloads page.
Windows binaries can be found on the same page.

Just wondering: why are Windows downloads no longer available via
windows.php.net (last updated Dec 2025) ?

The fact that an additional/new download location was added, doesn't
feel like a good reason to abandon updating the long established
canonical location. Where was this discussed/decided ?

And if there is no intention to continue updating windows.php.net, I
would - at the very least - expect a big bold notice on all pages of the
windows.php.net sub-site to direct users to the new download location.

Smile,
Juliette

1 month ago by Derick Rethans — view source — reply

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...
For source downloads of PHP 8.5.4 please visit our downloads page.
Windows binaries can be found on the same page.

Just wondering: why are Windows downloads no longer available via windows.php.net (last updated Dec 2025) ?

The fact that an additional/new download location was added, doesn't feel like a good reason to abandon updating the long established canonical location. Where was this discussed/decided ?

And if there is no intention to continue updating windows.php.net, I would - at the very least - expect a big bold notice on all pages of the windows.php.net sub-site to direct users to the new download location.

Smile,
Juliette

It's on my list to do, with notices and redirects where needed.

cheers
Derick

1 month ago by Juliette Reinders Folmer — view source — reply

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...
For source downloads of PHP 8.5.4 please visit our downloads page.
Windows binaries can be found on the same page.
Just wondering: why are Windows downloads no longer available via windows.php.net (last updated Dec 2025) ?

The fact that an additional/new download location was added, doesn't feel like a good reason to abandon updating the long established canonical location. Where was this discussed/decided ?

And if there is no intention to continue updating windows.php.net, I would - at the very least - expect a big bold notice on all pages of the windows.php.net sub-site to direct users to the new download location.

Smile,
Juliette
It's on my list to do, with notices and redirects where needed.

cheers
Derick

Thanks Derick, appreciated. Got a link to the discussion about this ?

1 month ago by Derick Rethans — view source — reply

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On 15 March 2026 11:59:34 CET, Juliette Reinders Folmer
php-internals_nospam@adviesenzo.nl wrote:

... For source downloads of PHP 8.5.4 please visit our downloads
page. Windows binaries can be found on the same page.

Just wondering: why are Windows downloads no longer available via
windows.php.net (last updated Dec 2025) ?

The fact that an additional/new download location was added,
doesn't feel like a good reason to abandon updating the long
established canonical location. Where was this discussed/decided ?

And if there is no intention to continue updating windows.php.net,
I would - at the very least - expect a big bold notice on all
pages of the windows.php.net sub-site to direct users to the new
download location.

It's on my list to do, with notices and redirects where needed.

Thanks Derick, appreciated. Got a link to the discussion about this ?

The windows.php.net server was never part of our infrastructure, or
under our control. Access was only through FTP in a cumbersome way.

We have had a long lived plan (~2 years)
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/10YUSdAcSP0xd9XbShKYlyRxG3Q3LNvHr9_P71Ml8XC4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.11s3yohk7tu9)
to move away from this approach, and don't treat Windows as a separate
entity any more.

I don't think there was a useful discussion to be had to keep the
original situation.

When we started working on automated builds for Windows, all new
builds are being uploaded to our normal downloads server, over which we
have full control. This also allowed us to improve the
www.php.net/downloads.php page to integrate our Windows releases.

If you have bookmarked specific URLs, then I'd be happy to see them, to
make sure we can set up redirects when we switch DNS to the server that
will only provide redirects for windows.php.net URLs.

cheers,
Derick

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