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RFCs are part of the process by which decisions are made about PHP. For more information about the RFC
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JSON Schema validation support
The JSON extension does not offer any way to structurally validate the content except for basic
syntax checking. Being able to validate the actual structure wou...
Policy release process update
This is a policy RFC that tries to match the current policy with the process that we currently have and also clarify few details.
Update the release process as proposed?
Yes
15 Votes (79%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Abstain
4 Votes (21%)
Release cycle update
The current release cycle has been introduced in 2010 by release process RFC. This has been
working mostly well, but there have been some minor issues. The leng...
Allow features that do not require an RFC in the beta period
Yes
34 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Disallow New Features in Release Candidates and Bug Fix releases
Yes
32 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Reduce number of RCs to Four
Yes
30 Votes (91%)
No
3 Votes (9%)
Extend Security Support by One Year
Yes
31 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Allowing recent regression fixes during security support
Yes
30 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Extend Releases Cycle to End of Year
Yes
33 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Stream Error Handling Improvements
PHP's stream error handling has historically been inconsistent across different stream wrappers and operations. Errors
are reported through various mechanisms -...
Should the Stream Error Handling Improvements be added to PHP core?
Yes
25 Votes (81%)
No
1 Votes (3%)
Abstain
5 Votes (16%)
Should the Polling API be added to PHP core?
Yes
33 Votes (87%)
No
1 Votes (3%)
Abstain
4 Votes (11%)
TLS Session Resumption Support for Streams
This RFC proposes adding comprehensive TLS session resumption support to PHP's OpenSSL stream
implementation. Session resumption is a critical performance optim...
Add TLS session resumption support to streams as described in this RFC?
Yes
19 Votes (86%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Abstain
3 Votes (14%)
What should the exception class be named?
OpenSSLException (consistent with existing OpenSSL classes)
5 Votes (25%)
Openssl\OpensslException (namespaced per Throwable policy recommendation)
15 Votes (75%)
Abstain
0 Votes (0%)
What should the session class be named?
OpenSSLSession (consistent with existing OpenSSL classes)
7 Votes (33%)
Openssl\Session (namespaced per latest naming conventions)
13 Votes (62%)
Abstain
1 Votes (5%)
Convert the deprecation to a documentation-based soft deprecation?
Yes
26 Votes (84%)
No
5 Votes (16%)
Abstain
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecations for PHP 8.5
The RFC proposes to deprecate the listed functionality in PHP 8.5 and remove it in PHP 9 (except where otherwise noted).
Deprecate semicolon-terminated case statements?
Yes
22 Votes (69%)
No
10 Votes (31%)
Deprecate non-standard cast names?
Yes
32 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate attributes applying to multiple class properties/constants
Yes
5 Votes (21%)
No
19 Votes (79%)
Deprecate backticks as an alias for shell_exec?
Yes
21 Votes (72%)
No
8 Votes (28%)
Deprecate the __sleep() and __wakeup() magic methods?
Yes
18 Votes (67%)
No
9 Votes (33%)
Deprecate using values null as an array offset and when calling array_key_exists()?
Yes
25 Votes (89%)
No
3 Votes (11%)
Deprecate __debugInfo() returning null?
Yes
22 Votes (81%)
No
5 Votes (19%)
Deprecate constant redeclaration?
Yes
31 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate closure binding issues?
Yes
29 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Enact follow-up phase of the Path to Saner Increment/Decrement operators RFC?
Yes
23 Votes (85%)
No
4 Votes (15%)
Deprecate the report_memleaks INI directive?
Yes
23 Votes (92%)
No
2 Votes (8%)
Deprecate the register_argc_argv INI directive and make in default to Off in PHP 8.5, then hardcode it to Off for all non-CLI-related SAPIs on PHP 9 (while keeping it hardcoded to On for CLI-related ones)?
Yes
27 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Remove disable_classes INI setting?
Yes
26 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate Reflection*::setAccessible()?
Yes
24 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate ReflectionParameter::allowsNull()?
Yes
9 Votes (47%)
No
10 Votes (53%)
Deprecate ReflectionClass::getConstant() for missing constants?
Yes
25 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate ReflectionProperty::getDefaultValue() for properties without default values?
Yes
22 Votes (92%)
No
2 Votes (8%)
Deprecate ArrayObject and ArrayIterator with objects?
Yes
26 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate SplObjectStorage::contains(), SplObjectStorage::attach(), and SplObjectStorage::detach()?
Yes
17 Votes (89%)
No
2 Votes (11%)
Deprecate passing spl_autoload_call() to spl_autoload_unregister()?
Yes
23 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate non-canonical type names for settype()?
Yes
8 Votes (44%)
No
10 Votes (56%)
Deprecate the $exclude_disabled parameter of get_defined_functions()?
Yes
23 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate passing null to readdir(), rewinddir(), and closedir()?
Yes
24 Votes (89%)
No
3 Votes (11%)
Deprecate passing string which are not one byte long to ord()?
Yes
20 Votes (83%)
No
4 Votes (17%)
Deprecate passing integers outside the interval [0, 255] to chr()?
Yes
21 Votes (95%)
No
1 Votes (5%)
Formally deprecate socket_set_timeout?
Yes
22 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate the $http_response_header predefined variable?
Yes
22 Votes (92%)
No
2 Votes (8%)
Deprecate FILTER_DEFAULT constant?
Yes
12 Votes (55%)
No
10 Votes (45%)
Emit a deprecation notice when using the default value for the $filter argument of the filter_*() functions?
Yes
9 Votes (47%)
No
10 Votes (53%)
Deprecate special build system support for drivers without a driver manager?
Yes
16 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate ODBCVER checks?
Yes
15 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate PDO’s uri: scheme?
Yes
22 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING constant?
Yes
8 Votes (40%)
No
12 Votes (60%)
Deprecate driver specific PDO constants and methods?
Yes
17 Votes (74%)
No
6 Votes (26%)
Deprecate statement transaction state specific PDO constants?
Yes
17 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate finfo_close()?
Yes
24 Votes (92%)
No
2 Votes (8%)
Deprecate xml_parser_free()?
Yes
22 Votes (92%)
No
2 Votes (8%)
Deprecate curl_close()?
Yes
23 Votes (88%)
No
3 Votes (12%)
Deprecate curl_share_close()?
Yes
23 Votes (88%)
No
3 Votes (12%)
Deprecate imagedestroy()?
Yes
23 Votes (92%)
No
2 Votes (8%)
Deprecate key_length parameter of openssl_pkey_derive()?
Yes
24 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate intl.error_level INI setting?
Yes
22 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Formally deprecate mysqli_execute?
Yes
22 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate building ext/ldap against Oracle LDAP?
Yes
19 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate the $context parameter for finfo_buffer()?
Yes
24 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate DATE_RFC7231 and DateTimeInterface::RFC7231?
Yes
22 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
OpenSSL AEAD support
The PHP OpenSSL extension provides functions for data encryption (openssl_encrypt) and decryption (openssl_decrypt). These function works fine for all cipher al...
Include AEAD support to OpenSSL extension
Yes
7 Votes (64%)
No
4 Votes (36%)
More precise float value handling
This RFC is based on the discussion about displaying float values in json_encode and proposes more precise float value handling overall.
Should mode 0 be introduced and set as default for PG(serialize_precision)
Yes
14 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Should PG(serialize_precision) be used instead of EG(precision) in json_encode
Yes
15 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Replacing current json extension with jsond
The current Json Parser in the json extension does not have a free license which is a problem for many Linux distros. This has been referenced at Bug #63520. Th...
Should jsond based extension replace the current json extension in PHP 7?
Yes
32 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
PHP Technical Committee
The Open Source project that develops the PHP language and its reference implementation uses an RFC process to discuss
and vote on proposed changes. This was cr...
Introduce the PHP Technical Committee as defined in this RFC
Yes
10 Votes (32%)
No
21 Votes (68%)
JSON numeric as string
JSON is a data format that is often used for data exchange between different platforms. These platforms can have different number representation which might lea...
Include JSON_FLOAT_TO_STRING for decoding?
Yes
1 Votes (17%)
No
5 Votes (83%)
Include JSON_FLOAT_TO_STRING for encoding?
Yes
1 Votes (17%)
No
5 Votes (83%)
Include JSON_INT_TO_STRING for decoding?
Yes
1 Votes (17%)
No
5 Votes (83%)
Include JSON_INT_TO_STRING for encoding?
Yes
1 Votes (20%)
No
4 Votes (80%)
PHP version used for the included constant
PHP 5.6
1 Votes (17%)
PHP 7.0
0 Votes (0%)
PHP 7.1
5 Votes (83%)
Internal Serialize API
This RFC proposes a new API for internal object serialization and unserialization.