> > I'm presuming it's too late for PHP 8.4, what with feature freeze having come > & gone this week. > > Based on the mostly supportive responses on the list, I wonder whether an RFC > is needed. If so, I'd be happy to create an initial draft (for PHP 8.5). >
Thank you! We now have the Release Cycle Update RFC approved (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/release_cycle_update#allow_features_that_do_not_require_an_rfc_in_the_beta_period), and it does allow minor new features during the beta period. Quoting from the RFC: > [snip] > It therefore seems illogical to allow RFC-requiring features to be merged > during the beta period, but not minor improvements that do not require an > RFC, such as adding constant, parameters, config options, or even small > functions or methods. > > We propose to explicitly allow minor features, optimizations, and internal > API / ABI changes, during the beta period. I think the `get_declared_enums` is small enough to be considered a minor change given we don't change any engine internals. Given the positive response on the mailing list, I think we can have this in PHP 8.4 as well, subject to RMs approval of course. There's also a PR from yesterday (https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/15446) that added a new Curl constant.
