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In voting phase

Under Discussion

This section is for RFCs that have been announced on the PHP “internals” mail list.

In Draft

This section is for early drafts of RFCs that have NOT been announced on the PHP “internals” mail list.

Accepted

Process and Policy

Pending Implementation

Implemented

Order in these sections: Language changes first, library changes later.

PHP 8.0

PHP 7.4

  • weakrefs
    (Created: 2018-05-17, Voting started: 2019-02-22)
  • FFI - Foreign Function Interface
    (Announced: 2018-12-06; Voting began: 2018-12-20; Accepted: 2019-01-09)
  • Typed Properties 2.0
    Add support for typed properties, including static properties and references to typed properties. (Created: 2018-06-15)
  • Null Coalesce Equal Operator
    Allow shorthand for self assigning null coalesce operator (Created 2016-03-09)
  • Preloading
    Preload PHP functions and classes once and use them in the context of any future request without overhead. (Created: 2018-10-18)
  • Always available hash extension
    Proposes to make the hash extension available to every build of PHP. (Created: 04/09-2018)
  • Password Hash Registry
    Make the mechanisms used by password_hash/verify/etc... extensible by other modules. (Created: 2018-10-15)
  • Improve openssl_random_pseudo_bytes()
    Proposes making openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() fail closed and deprecate the second parameter (Created: 2019-10-19)
  • mb_str_split() Split multibyte string
    (Announced: 2019-01-02; Voting began: 2019-01-10; Accepted: 2019-01-20; Implemented: 2019-02-12)
  • Reflection for references
    Introduces the ReflectionReference class to allow detecting references and determining reference equality. (Created: 2019-01-15; Voting began: 2019-01-30)

PHP 7.3

PHP 7.2

PHP 7.1

PHP 7.0

PHP 5.6

PHP 5.5

PHP 5.4

Note: Many RFCs in this list have been mass voted.

PHP 5.3

Declined

Withdrawn

Inactive

This section is for RFCs that had been in discussion, but did not have any activity or discussion about them recently. It can be because they have been deferred, obsoleted, or appear to have been abandoned, or because the authors need more work on them. Sorry if your RFC is added here and you feel it is still active; please move it back to the appropriate section.

Obsolete

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