On Jul 27, 2026, at 7:31 AM, Gina P. Banyard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello internals,
>
> As announced last week I've opened the vote for the 8.6 mass deprecation RFC:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6
>
> The vote runs for two weeks and will close automatically on the 10th of
> August 2026 at 13:00:00 UTC.
>
> Please remember that the wiki is only capable to handle a single vote at a
> time,
> so each vote MUST be submitted individually.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gina P. Banyard
Nora isn't on the list, but she points out:
The text for the metaphone deprecation isn't fully right. It lists
"linguistics" as a replacement package, but that one actually uses
php-src's metaphone internally too. So it is affected by the
deprecation, not a replacement.
As demonstrated by:
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
\Linguistics\Phonetics::metaphone('foo');
