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The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 2022

PHP 8.2 to be released on December 8

All PHP 7 versions are now End-of-Life

Recent RFCs, Merged PRs, Discussions, and Commits

Changes and improvements to PHP are discussed, reported, and voted on by the PHP Foundation Team, the PHP development team, and contributors. Bug reports are made to the PHP issue tracker, changes are discussed in mailing lists, minor code changes are proposed as pull requests, and major changes are discussed in detail and voted on as PHP RFCs. Documentation and the php.net website changes are also discussed and improved at their relevant Git repositories on GitHub.

RFC Updates

[$a ?? $b] = $array; 

readonly class A {}
class B extends A {} // Currently this produces a Fatal error

class Foo {
    public function __construct(
        public readonly DateTime $bar,
        public readonly DateTime $baz
    ) {}

    public function __clone()
    {
        $this->bar = clone $this->bar; // Works
        $this->cloneBaz();
    }

    public function cloneBaz()
    {
        $this->baz = clone $this->baz; // Also works
    }
}

$foo = new Foo(new DateTime(), new DateTime());
$foo2 = clone $foo;

// No error, Foo::$bar and Foo::$baz are cloned deeply

function foo() {
    static $p = 16; // Allowed
    static $p = getValue(); // Not allowed, proposed to allow
}

Notable Mailing List Discussions

• Microseconds to error log
• Remove warning when parsing datetime with + symbol
• Asymmetric Visibility, with readonly

Merged PRs and Commits

• Fix stub type info for posix_getrlimit in c3b9b0f9a7 by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Fix pre-PHP 8.2 compatibility for php_mt_rand_range() with MT_RAND_PHP in GH-9839 by Tim Düsterhus
• Fix GH-9754: SaltStack hangs when running php-fpm 8.1.11 in 1c5844aa3e by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Do not display the value of UNKNOWN constants in the manual in GH-9843 by Máté Kocsis 💜
• Match FPM status pool's expose_php with parent in e4a1b80a5f by Dominic H
• Fix GH-9770: Add small timeout in status-listen test in 8229649045 by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Fix memory leak in 482ae71fda by Dmitry Stogov
• socket add socket_atmark support in 4c4e72f149 by David CARLIER
• Use zend_call_known_function() in ext-pgsql instead of building FCI/FCC in 4f8d10791b by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Use zend_call_known_function() in ext-mysqli instead of building FCI/FCC in c0f2727e55 by George Peter Banyard 💜
• labeler.yml: set top-level read-only permissions in GH-9862 by Pedro Nacht
• Timelib: Updated to version 2022.6 (2022f) in 2b5bed904e by Derick Rethans 💜
• Don’t reset func in zend_closure_internal_handler in 8dabbda8bc by Florian Sowade
• Tidy up buffer preparation in mysqlnd in GH-9834 by Kamil Tekiela
• Fix GH-9829: Bug in refactoring Windows shmat() function in GH-9873 by Christoph M. Becker
• Fix potential NULL pointer dereference Windows shm*() functions in GH-9872 by Christoph M. Becker
• Fix observing inherited internal functions in b30448f48f by Bob Weinand
• Store a reference to closures in the FCC in 7c45b95894 by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Add various APIs to handle FCC structures in de4cfff5f6 by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Refactor SPL Callback filter to only use FCC in 8d5d3fd035 by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Only use FCC for SQLite3 user defined functions/collations/authorizer in 29bb426933, 37aea43eed, and d105958603 by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Only use FCC for libxml entity loader callback in fb114bf45b by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Fix hardcoded paths in test in 4935e10fc8 by Bob Weinand
• Delay releasing closures until after observer end in 8e49d7f32f by Bob Weinand
• Properly deal with internal attributes used on promoted properties in GH-9661 by Martin Schröder
• Fix fake closure leaking when called from internal func in GH-9884 by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Migrate i386 to GitHub actions in GH-9856 by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Fix duplicate SKIPIF section in d2c663441d by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Fix ext section in bca1e1f557 by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Disable CLI server pdeathsig test on 32-bit GitHub actions in 1fb40b501d by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Fix generator memory leaks when interrupted during argument evaluation in GH-9756 by Arnaud Le Blanc 💜
• Fix memory leak in f31f464cec by Dmitry Stogov
• Don't check "fake" closures (fix assertion) in 05b63b1593 by Dmitry Stogov
• Fiber: add shadow stack support in GH-9283 by Chen, Hu
• Don't skip test on Windows due to missing ext/posix in GH-9886 by Christoph M. Becker
• Fix cross-compilation for copy_file_range in 5d7b64be1d by Bob Weinand
• Move observer_declared_function_notify until after pass_two() in 6bd8f40291 by Bob Weinand
• Fix GH-9905: constant() behaves inconsistent when class is undefined in GH-9907 by Christoph M. Becker
• Do not report MINIT stage internal class aliases in extensions in 182314c317 by Bob Weinand
• Fix opcache preload with observers enabled in 4052bbf0e3 by Bob Weinand
• Fix crash reading module_entry after DL_UNLOAD() when module already loaded in 0bfdd5691c by Bob Weinand
• Make the usage of the role attribute more clear in GH-9901 by Máté Kocsis 💜
• No more need to cater to mime_magic extension in 5aa13183ae by Christoph M. Becker
• Disable opcache file_cache for observer preloading test in 09f071e63b by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Remove unused PHP 8.1 BC layer in JIT in GH-9937 by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Skip tests if extension or SAPI is not included. in GH-9939 by dwo0
• Fix GH-9923: Add the SIGINFO constant in pcntl for system supporting it in e0e347b4a8 by David Carlier
• Fix GH-9298: remove all registered signal handlers in pcntl RSHUTDOWN in 5ecbb1b39d by Erki Aring
• Fix GH-9535 (unintended behavior change for mb_strcut in PHP 8.1) in fa0401b0b5 by NathanFreeman
• Introduce TEST_FPM_EXTENSION_DIR for FPM tests with shared extensions in db2d32f476 by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Fix memory leak in a8bd342397 by Dmitry Stogov
• Fix regression test for GH-9535 on PHP-8.2+ in d3933e0b6c by Alex Dowad
• Fix GH-9890: OpenSSL legacy providers not available on Windows in GH-9894 by Christoph M. Becker
• Fix GH-9932: Discards further characters for session name in GH-9940 by David Carlier
• Escape the role attribute of namespaced classes in GH-9952 by Máté Kocsis 💜
• Cache UTF-8-validity status of strings in GC flags in d0d834429f by Alex Dowad
• Promote unserialize() notices to warning in GH-9629 by Tim Düsterhus
• Remove code for OS2 in 726d595ec7 by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Use zend_result return type instead of innacurate ones in dbf54e1a8b by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Change conditional check in disk_free_space() test in bab9e349cb by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Add WordPress to community build in GH-9942 by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Fix caching of default params with side-effects in GH-9935 by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Fix cross-compilation for shadow_stack_exists in 05f4b84940 by Dmitry Stogov
• Fix GH-9650: Can't initialize heap: [0x000001e7] in GH-9721 by Michael Voříšek
• Improvements in modifier parsing in GH-9926 by Ilija Tovilo 💜
• Use fast text conversion filters to implement mb_convert_variables in b1954f5fd6 by Alex Dowad
• Avoid undefined behavior in Windows ftok(3) emulation in GH-9958 by Christoph M. Becker
• Use __atomic_test_and_set() instead of __sync_test_and_set() for lsapi in GH-7997 by Andy Postnikov
• opcache fixing w/x pages creation on freebsd 13.1 and above in GH-9896 by David CARLIER
• Use __atomic_xxxx() instead of __sync_xxxx() for lsapi in 4bdfce6c1a by George Wang
• For UTF-7, flag unnecessary extra trailing byte in Base64 section as error in a618682373 by Alex Dowad
• Fix a memory leak in tracig JIT when the same closure is called through Closure::call() and natively in 45cb3f917a by Dmitry Stogov
• Fix GH-9883: SplFileObject::__toString() reads next line in GH-9912 by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Fix performance degradation introduced in c2547ab7 in GH-9876 by George Peter Banyard 💜
• Fix mangled kana output for JIS encoding in 8f84192403 by Alex Dowad
• Handle trampolines correctly in new FCC API + usages in GH-9877 by George Peter Banyard 💜
• php-fpm: fix Solaris port events.mechanism in GH-9959 by Petr Sumbera
• Fix bug #68207: Setting fastcgi.error_header can result in a WARNING in 5a4520bc2b by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Fix bug #80669: FPM numeric user fails to set groups in 94702c56e0 by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Fix GH-8517: FPM child pointer can be potentially uninitialized in c9c1934ff0 by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Add a note to php.ini-* regarding the required order for GH-8620 in 9416186ff1 by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Fix GH-9997: OpenSSL engine clean up segfault in 3d90a24e93 by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Fix GH-9064: PHP fails to build if openssl was built with no-ec in ce57221376 by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Do not resolve constants on non-linked class during preloading in GH-9975 by Arnaud Le Blanc 💜
• Fix GH-10000: Test failures when OpenSSL compiled with no-dsa in 500b28ad04 by Jakub Zelenka 💜
• Simplify decoding filter for UTF-8 in 0109aa62ec by Alex Dowad
• Add a proper error message for ffi load in GH-9913 by Thomas PIRAS
• Remove unnecessary usage of CONST_CS in GH-9685 by Jorg Adam Sowa

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