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Sep 10, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - Sept 9, 2026

A PHP RFC went to a vote on Friday and its author pulled it back by Sunday night, over a no vote from the person who wrote the policy it broke — which leaves a...

By Len Woodward

Sep 03, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - Sept 2, 2026

For the third week running, no PHP RFC is in the voting phase — so instead of a scoreboard, here's a contributor who scanned half a million PHP files to answer...

By Len Woodward

Aug 28, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - August 26, 2026

For the second week running, no PHP RFC is in the voting phase — so the internals list spent the week on a question that isn't about PHP at all: who is actually...

By Len Woodward

Aug 22, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - August 19, 2026

No RFC went to a vote, and nothing is in the voting phase at all. A new contributor's array_search_range() ran into a counter-proposal for a general lazy array...

By Len Woodward

Aug 14, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - August 12, 2026

The verdict lands on PHP's 35-ballot deprecation vote — list() survives on a flat 23-23 tie — the pipe assignment operator is declined, and PHP 8.6's RFC season...

By Len Woodward

Aug 06, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - Aug 05, 2026

PHP's 35-ballot deprecation vote enters its final week with list() deadlocked at 21-21, a second RFC author pulls his own vote over the process rules, and PHP 8...

By Len Woodward

Aug 02, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - July 29, 2026

42 RFC ballots are open at once in PHP internals. This week: list() is losing its deprecation ballot, the dechunk filter split the room, a first-time author's p...

By Len Woodward

Jul 16, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - July 15, 2026

This Week in PHP Internals — July 8 to July 15, 2026. A brand-new class extension proposal rewrote itself mid-thread, the Deprecations RFC froze with ballots se...

By Len Woodward

Jul 08, 2026 PHP

This Week In PHP Internals - July 8, 2026

This Week in PHP Internals — July 1 to July 8, 2026. The Deprecations RFC fought about WordPress and then about evidence, Time\Duration declared itself complete...

By Len Woodward