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Monday, 16th March, 2026
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New Features in PHP 8.5

Pipe operator (|>)
Filter: Support to throw exceptions on validation failures
New max_memory_limit INI directive to set a ceiling memory_limit
Curl: New curl_multi_get_handles function
Intl: New IntlListFormatter class
CLI: php --ini=diff to output non-default INI directives
New array_first and array_last functions
New locale_is_right_to_left function and Locale::isRightToLeft method
Stack trace support for PHP Fatal errors
New get_exception_handler and get_error_handler functions
New PHP_BUILD_PROVIDER constant
New PHP_BUILD_DATE constant

Deprecations in PHP 8.5

Non-canonical scalar type casts (boolean|double|integer|binary) deprecated
mysqli_execute alias function deprecated in favor of mysqli_stmt_execute
curl_close and curl_share_close functions deprecated because they are no-op in PHP >= 8.0
xml_parser_free function deprecated as it is no-op in PHP >= 8.0
socket_set_timeout function deprecated in favor of stream_set_timeout
Emitting output from custom output buffer handlers is deprecated
All MHASH_* constants deprecated

Removed Features and Functionality in PHP 8.5

CLI/CGI: -z / --zend-extension option removed

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