On Friday, 25 July 2025 at 13:56, Gina P. Banyard <intern...@gpb.moe> wrote:

> Hello internals,
> 
> As Tim announced a few days ago, I've opened the votes for the deprecations:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_5
> 
> Please remember that the wiki is only capable to handle a single vote at a 
> time,
> so please submit each vote you intend on casting individually.
> 

Hello internals,

After two weeks of voting, I closed the votes of the "Deprecations for PHP 8.5" 
RFC at 19:45 UTC.

The following proposals have been accepted:

- Deprecate semicolon after case in switch statement (22 yay, 10 nay, 68.8%)
- Deprecate non-standard cast names (32 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate backticks as an alias for shell_exec (21 yay, 8 nay, 72.4%)
- Deprecate the __sleep() and __wakeup() magic methods (18 yay, 9 nay, 66.7%)
- Deprecate using values null as an array offset and when calling 
array_key_exists() (25 yay, 3 nay, 89.3%)
- Deprecate __debugInfo() returning null (22 yay, 5 nay, 81.5%)
- Deprecate constant redeclaration (31 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate closure binding issues (29 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Enact follow-up phase of the "Path to Saner Increment/Decrement operators" 
RFC (23 yay, 4 nay, 85.2%)
- Deprecate the report_memleaks INI directive (23 yay, 2 nay, 92.0%)
- Deprecate the register_argc_argv INI directive (27 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Remove disable_classes INI setting (26 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate Reflection*::setAccessible() (24 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate ReflectionClass::getConstant() for missing constants (25 yay, 0 
nay, 100%)
- Deprecate ReflectionProperty::getDefaultValue() for properties without 
default values (21 yay, 2 nay, 89.5%)
- Deprecate ArrayObject and ArrayIterator with objects (26 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate SplObjectStorage::contains(), SplObjectStorage::attach(), and 
SplObjectStorage::detach() (17 yay, 2 nay, 89.5%)
- Deprecate passing spl_autoload_call() to spl_autoload_unregister() (23 yay, 0 
nay, 100%)
- Deprecate the $exclude_disabled parameter of get_defined_functions() (23 yay, 
0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate passing null to readdir(), rewinddir(), and closedir() (24 yay, 3 
nay, 88.9%)
- Deprecate passing string which are not one byte long to ord() (20 yay, 4 nay, 
83.3%)
- Deprecate passing integers outside the interval [0, 255] to chr() (21 yay, 1 
nay, 95.5%)
- Formally deprecate socket_set_timeout (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate the $http_response_header predefined variable (22 yay, 2 nay, 91.7%)
- [ODBC] Remove flags for building against specific drivers directly (16 yay, 0 
nay, 100%)
- Remove support for older ODBC versions (15 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate PDO's 'uri:' scheme (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate driver specific PDO constants and methods (17 yay, 6 nay, 73.9%)
- Deprecate Pdo\Pgsql constants related to statement transaction state (17 yay, 
0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate finfo_close() (24 yay, 2 nay, 92.3%)
- Deprecate xml_parser_free() (22 yay, 2 nay, 91.7%)
- Deprecate curl_close() (23 yay, 3 nay, 88.5%)
- Deprecate curl_share_close() (23 yay, 3 nay, 88.5%)
- Deprecate imagedestroy() (23 yay, 2 nay, 92.0%)
- Deprecate key_length parameter of openssl_pkey_derive() (24 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate intl.error_level INI setting (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Formally deprecate mysqli_execute() (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate building ext/ldap against Oracle LDAP (19 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate the $context parameter for finfo_buffer() (24 yay, 0 nay, 100%)
- Deprecate DATE_RFC7231 and DateTimeInterface::RFC7231 (22 yay, 0 nay, 100%)

And the following proposals have been rejected:

- Deprecate attributes applying to multiple class properties/constants (5 yay, 
19 nay, 20.8%)
- Deprecate ReflectionParameter::allowsNull() (9 yay, 10 nay, 47.4%)
- Deprecate non-canonical type names for settype() (8 yay, 10 nay, 44.4%)
- Deprecate FILTER_DEFAULT constant (12 yay, 10 nay, 54.5%)
- Make $filter parameter mandatory for filter_*() functions (9 yay, 10 nay, 
47.4%)
- Deprecate PDO::ERRMODE_WARNING error mode (8 yay, 12 nay, 40.0%)

Thank you to everyone that has voted and participated in the discussions.

Best regards,

Gina P. Banyard

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