Author: Volker Dusch (edorian)
Date: 2026-07-30T13:50:11+02:00
Commit:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/35d7d39b90eadb21f8c9072e9b7ddf2c18d7e6cc
Raw diff:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/35d7d39b90eadb21f8c9072e9b7ddf2c18d7e6cc.diff
Announce PHP 8.5.9
Changed paths:
A archive/entries/2026-07-30-2.xml
A releases/8_5_9.php
M ChangeLog-8.php
M archive/archive.xml
M include/release-qa.php
M include/releases.inc
M include/version.inc
Diff:
diff --git a/ChangeLog-8.php b/ChangeLog-8.php
index d5d830fffe..0f2a3ca77f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog-8.php
+++ b/ChangeLog-8.php
@@ -9,6 +9,133 @@
<a id="PHP_8_5"></a>
+<section class="version" id="8.5.9"><!-- {{{ 8.5.9 -->
+<h3>Version 8.5.9</h3>
+<b><?php release_date('30-Jul-2026'); ?></b>
+<ul><li>Core:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22290); ?> (AST pretty
printing does not correctly handle strings containing NUL).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22206); ?> (missing return
in global register detection).</li>
+ <li>Lock unmodified readonly properties for modification after
clone-with.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>BCMath:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed <?php githubsecurityl('php/php-src', 'x692-q9x7-8c3f'); ?>
(Out-of-bounds write in bccomp()). (CVE-2026-17544)</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Calendar:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22602); ?> (gregoriantojd()
and juliantojd() integer overflow with INT_MAX year).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Date:
+<ul>
+ <li>Update timelib to 2022.17.</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 19803); ?> (Parsing a string
with a single white space does create an error).</li>
+ <li>Fixed Unix timestamps in February of the year 0 are misparsed with
@-notation.</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 11310); ?> (__debugInfo does
nothing on userland classes extending Date classes).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>DBA:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed OOB read on malformed length field in dba flatfile handler.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>DOM:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22570); ?> (Stack overflow
when serializing a deeply nested Dom\XMLDocument).</li>
+ <li>Fixed getElementsByClassName() item() returning the wrong element on
random access.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Exif:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 11020); ?> (exif_read_data()
emits a spurious "Illegal IFD size" warning when an IFD is not followed by a
next-IFD offset).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>GD:
+<ul>
+ <li>Upgrade libgd. (CVE-2026-9672)</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Hash:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 18173); ?> (ext/hash relies
on implementation-defined malloc alignment).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>ODBC:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22668); ?> (Heap buffer
over-read when a column value exceeds the driver-reported display size).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Opcache:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22158); ?> (Tracing JIT
dispatches the observer begin handler through the wrong run_time_cache slot on
megamorphic calls).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22443); ?> (Tracing JIT
SIGSEGV on megamorphic dynamic calls from an undereferenced run_time_cache
map_ptr offset).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 21770); ?> (Infinite
recursion in property hook getter in opcache preloaded trait).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>OpenSSL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed timeout for supplemental read at end of a blocking stream in SSL
stream wrapper.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Intl:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed Locale::lookup() and locale_lookup() to return NULL instead of the
fallback locale when a language tag cannot be canonicalized.</li>
+ <li>Fixed memory leaks when calling Collator::__construct() or
Spoofchecker::__construct() twice.</li>
+ <li>Fixed memory leak when calling IntlListFormatter::__construct()
twice.</li>
+ <li>Fixed IntlChar methods leaving stale global error state after successful
calls.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>PDO_ODBC:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20726); ?> (Crash with ODBC
connection pooling when the DSN carries no credentials).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22667); ?> (Heap buffer
over-read when a column value exceeds the driver-reported display size).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22666); ?> (Heap buffer
overflow when an output parameter value is longer than the declared
maxlen).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22665); ?> (Out-of-bounds
write when the ODBC driver reports a diagnostic message length beyond the error
buffer).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>PGSQL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed <?php githubsecurityl('php/php-src', '7qpv-r5mr-78m4'); ?> (SQL
injection via E'...' backslash breakout). (CVE-2026-17543)</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Phar:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed inconsistent handling of the magic ".phar" directory. Paths such
as "/.phar" remain protected, while non-magic paths that merely start with
".phar" are handled consistently across file and directory creation, copying,
ArrayAccess, stream lookup, directory iteration and extraction.</li>
+ <li>Fixed <?php githubsecurityl('php/php-src', 'vc5h-9ppw-p5f3'); ?> (Crash
via recursive symlinks). (CVE-2026-7260)</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>PHPDBG:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 17387); ?> (Trivial crash in
phpdbg lexer).</li>
+ <li>Fixed fleaked lowercased lookup keys in phpdbg_resolve_opline_break.</li>
+ <li>Fixed off-by-one in phpdbg_safe_class_lookup() causing class lookups to
always fail during phpdbg's signal-safe interruption path.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Reflection:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22324); ?> (Ignore leading
namespace separator in ReflectionParameter::__construct()).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22441); ?>
(ReflectionClass::hasProperty() and getProperty() ignore dynamic properties
shadowing a private parent property).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22658); ?>
(ReflectionConstant::__toString() with a string value with null bytes truncates
output).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22683); ?>
(Reflection(Class)Constant::__toString() should not warn on NAN
conversions).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22681); ?>
(Reflection*::__toString() truncates on null bytes).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Session:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 21314); ?> (Different
session garbage collector behavior between PHP 8.3 and PHP 8.5).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>SPL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix class_parents for classes with leading slash in non-autoload
mode.</li>
+ <li>Ignore leading back-slash in class_parents(), class_implements(), and
class_uses().</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 16217); ?>
(SplFileObject::fputcsv() on an uninitialized object segfaults).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Standard:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22395); ?> (base_convert()
outputs at most 64 characters).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22678); ?> (Use-after-free
in array_multisort() when the comparator mutates the array being sorted).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>URI:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed behavior of Uri\WhatWg\Url wither methods with regards to empty
opaque hosts.</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22628); ?> (Percent-encoding
of caret in WHATWG URL paths is not performed).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22629); ?> (WHATWG
Validation error incorrect with empty host and non-empty userinfo).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Zip:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22649); ?>
(ZipArchive::setCommentName() and setCommentIndex() could crash after
overwriting an entry and resetting its inherited unchanged comment).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 21705); ?>
(ZipArchive::getFromIndex() ignores ZipArchive::FL_UNCHANGED for deleted
entries).</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+<!-- }}} --></section>
+
+
+
<section class="version" id="8.5.8"><!-- {{{ 8.5.8 -->
<h3>Version 8.5.8</h3>
<b><?php release_date('02-Jul-2026'); ?></b>
diff --git a/archive/archive.xml b/archive/archive.xml
index d086a6e346..dfcd9ebaaa 100644
--- a/archive/archive.xml
+++ b/archive/archive.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
<uri>http://php.net/contact</uri>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</author>
+ <xi:include href="entries/2026-07-30-2.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2026-07-30-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2026-07-16-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2026-07-13-1.xml"/>
diff --git a/archive/entries/2026-07-30-2.xml b/archive/entries/2026-07-30-2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3c57d3c74d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive/entries/2026-07-30-2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";>
+ <title>PHP 8.5.9 Released!</title>
+ <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-07-30-2</id>
+ <published>2026-07-30T11:38:53+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2026-07-30T11:38:53+00:00</updated>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#2026-07-30-2"; rel="alternate"
type="text/html"/>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-07-30-2"; rel="via"
type="text/html"/>
+ <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/>
+ <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/>
+ <content type="xhtml">
+ <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";><p>The PHP development team
announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.5.9. This is a security
release.</p>
+
+<p>All PHP 8.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.</p>
+
+<p>For source downloads of PHP 8.5.9 please visit our <a
href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php";>downloads page</a>,
+Windows source and binaries can also be found <a
href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php?os=windows&version=8.5";>there</a>.
+The list of changes is recorded in the <a
href="https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.5.9";>ChangeLog</a>.
+</p> </div>
+ </content>
+</entry>
diff --git a/include/release-qa.php b/include/release-qa.php
index ce44a7f7bd..35e5f8a450 100644
--- a/include/release-qa.php
+++ b/include/release-qa.php
@@ -88,10 +88,10 @@
'active' => true,
'release' => [
'type' => 'RC',
- 'number' => 1,
- 'sha256_bz2' =>
'ce761a2347e2bd6bb9aab5a63d78a2e978df10665619632a8f903b1df3af9420',
- 'sha256_gz' =>
'eaeb7fc128cdce1ee4a16575f55e318a51554295b530dd914a03d08abc9023a3',
- 'sha256_xz' =>
'3c4de9f98adda67400e2b52252f5d1c58328d26da64e3cdc8b3a6a3e5d49397b',
+ 'number' => 0,
+ 'sha256_bz2' => '',
+ 'sha256_gz' => '',
+ 'sha256_xz' => '',
'date' => '16 July 2026',
'baseurl' => 'https://downloads.php.net/~edorian/',
],
diff --git a/include/releases.inc b/include/releases.inc
index 62f3513d94..858db068b1 100644
--- a/include/releases.inc
+++ b/include/releases.inc
@@ -2,6 +2,43 @@
$OLDRELEASES = array (
8 =>
array (
+ '8.5.8' =>
+ array (
+ 'announcement' =>
+ array (
+ 'English' => '/releases/8_5_8.php',
+ ),
+ 'tags' =>
+ array (
+ 0 => 'security',
+ ),
+ 'date' => '02 Jul 2026',
+ 'source' =>
+ array (
+ 0 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.5.8.tar.gz',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.5.8 (tar.gz)',
+ 'sha256' =>
'6ebc55e52af4396385e689f7af0f28944fbbf966843433b573e9dc1dc03df539',
+ 'date' => '02 Jul 2026',
+ ),
+ 1 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.5.8.tar.bz2',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.5.8 (tar.bz2)',
+ 'sha256' =>
'22f938efc6c4eaa8bf2e40ae11466140309496aa5d5a19204272fb2596fd11dd',
+ 'date' => '02 Jul 2026',
+ ),
+ 2 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.5.8.tar.xz',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.5.8 (tar.xz)',
+ 'sha256' =>
'58910198d19e873048fe87cdfe16bc790025417ede3d1651bfa1c4b533d573f2',
+ 'date' => '02 Jul 2026',
+ ),
+ ),
+ 'museum' => false,
+ ),
'8.2.32' =>
array (
'announcement' =>
diff --git a/include/version.inc b/include/version.inc
index 3e1cf68edd..38e3f36e9f 100644
--- a/include/version.inc
+++ b/include/version.inc
@@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ $RELEASES = (function () {
/* PHP 8.5 Release */
$data['8.5'] = [
- 'version' => '8.5.8',
- 'date' => '02 Jul 2026',
+ 'version' => '8.5.9',
+ 'date' => '30 Jul 2026',
'tags' => ['security'], // Set to ['security'] for security releases.
'sha256' => [
// WARNING: Order of SHA256 entries here is DIFFERENT from the
// order in the manifest
- 'tar.gz' =>
'6ebc55e52af4396385e689f7af0f28944fbbf966843433b573e9dc1dc03df539',
- 'tar.bz2' =>
'22f938efc6c4eaa8bf2e40ae11466140309496aa5d5a19204272fb2596fd11dd',
- 'tar.xz' =>
'58910198d19e873048fe87cdfe16bc790025417ede3d1651bfa1c4b533d573f2',
+ 'tar.gz' =>
'd735459c2cbaeb0673d416c33d372d9ff261d562f6b29da48f3e6aeaeca083af',
+ 'tar.bz2' =>
'703c082ad9d2946ac647f3596812300d2c62b360d2f31a999021692a9b39476c',
+ 'tar.xz' =>
'0db7855f25bcd0ab1d592cdb35e284d6f6a5d2ae0f6f621122e364cc39b708f4',
]
];
diff --git a/releases/8_5_9.php b/releases/8_5_9.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..854553c793
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/8_5_9.php
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?php
+$_SERVER['BASE_PAGE'] = 'releases/8_5_9.php';
+include_once __DIR__ . '/../include/prepend.inc';
+site_header('PHP 8.5.9 Release Announcement');
+?>
+<h1>PHP 8.5.9 Release Announcement</h1>
+
+<p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.5.9.
This is a security release.</p>
+
+<p>All PHP 8.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.</p>
+
+<p>For source downloads of PHP 8.5.9 please visit our <a
href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php";>downloads page</a>,
+Windows source and binaries can also be found <a
href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php?os=windows&version=8.5";>there</a>.
+The list of changes is recorded in the <a
href="https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.5.9";>ChangeLog</a>.
+</p>
+<?php site_footer();
