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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%)
Deprecations for PHP 8.3
The RFC proposes to deprecate the listed functionality in PHP 8.3 and remove it in PHP 9.
Deprecate passing negative $widths to mb_strimwidth()
Yes
27 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate and remove the NumberFormatter::TYPE_CURRENCY constant
Yes
29 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate and remove the CRYPT_* constants?
Yes
14 Votes (58%)
No
10 Votes (42%)
Deprecate and remove the broken pre-PHP 7.1 Mt19937 implementation (MT_RAND_PHP)?
Yes
28 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate the global Mt19937?
Yes
13 Votes (45%)
No
16 Votes (55%)
What to do with the non-integer functions using the global Mt19937 if the previous vote passes?
Deprecate together with mt_srand()
1 Votes (4%)
Convert to CSPRNG
24 Votes (96%)
Deprecate and remove calling ldap_connect with 2 parameters $host and $port
Yes
26 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Unbundle ext/xmlrpc
ext/xmlrpc relies on on libxmlrpc-epi, which is abandoned. Even worse, we are bundling a modified 0.51, while the latest version is 0.54.1. This is exacerbated ...
Unbundle ext/xmlrpc
Yes
50 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Unbundle ext/wddx
WDDX has been designed as programming language independent data exchange format for the web1). However, it never has been formally standardized, and it appears ...
Unbundle ext/wddx
Yes
30 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Unbundle ext/wddx details
depr. 7.4/move 8.0(1)
4 Votes (14%)
depr. and move 7.4(2)
19 Votes (68%)
move 7.4(3)
2 Votes (7%)
dump 7.4(4)
3 Votes (11%)
Unbundle ext/recode
ext/recode facilitates conversion between different character sets/encodings. This functionality is basically already supported by ext/iconv and ext/mbstring. ...
Unbundle ext/recode
Yes
38 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate and Remove image2wbmp()
ext/gd has two functions to output WBMP 1) images: imagewbmp() and image2wbmp().
Both are supposed to handle the necessary monochrome conversion by different me...
Deprecate and Remove image2wbmp()
Yes
14 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate png2wbmp() and jpeg2wbmp()
png2wbmp() and jpeg2wbmp() are the only direct image format conversion functions available in ext/gd which makes them rather special, particularly as libgd does...
Deprecate png2wbmp() and jpeg2wbmp()
Yes
20 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate and remove INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003
As of ICU 55.1 (released 2015-04-01) the IDNA2003 APIs are deprecated, because UTS #46 should be preferred over the obsolete IDNA 2003 variant. However, the int...
Deprecate and remove INTL_IDNA_VARIANT_2003
Yes
24 Votes (100%)
No
0 Votes (0%)
Deprecate class instance deserialization in WDDX
WDDX has been designed as programming language independent data exchange format for the web1). However, PHP 4.0.0 added the ability to (de)serialize class insta...
Kill proprietary CSV escaping mechanism
For many years, we receive bug reports regarding the strange behavior of the $escape parameter of our CSV writing and reading functions (fputcsv, fgetcsv etc.);...