Author: Calvin Buckley (NattyNarwhal)
Date: 2026-08-27T12:02:00-03:00
Commit:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/0f359aec46d9e5515fd38657ccc675e95a19cfb0
Raw diff:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/0f359aec46d9e5515fd38657ccc675e95a19cfb0.diff
Announce PHP 8.4.25
Changed paths:
A public/archive/entries/2026-08-27-2.xml
A public/releases/8_4_25.php
M include/release-qa.php
M include/releases.inc
M include/version.inc
M public/ChangeLog-8.php
M public/archive/archive.xml
Diff:
diff --git a/include/release-qa.php b/include/release-qa.php
index 6e10df1fb3..6f54276fef 100644
--- a/include/release-qa.php
+++ b/include/release-qa.php
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@
'active' => true,
'release' => [
'type' => 'RC',
- 'number' => 1,
- 'sha256_bz2' =>
'bca85bc4cda00e409835dcec133474743cf99090fcbacdf674ae70bbc5d7c6dc',
- 'sha256_gz' =>
'0d1b8936e67bae406f20691a4225b398baaa31a1dbdeea5959a553a26c9f5f86',
- 'sha256_xz' =>
'666d849f376b20f21dad94c14a0c5faa1649e3c77de50330b05d7967ee5b2441',
+ 'number' => 0,
+ 'sha256_bz2' => '',
+ 'sha256_gz' => '',
+ 'sha256_xz' => '',
'date' => '13 August 2026',
- 'baseurl' => 'https://downloads.php.net/~calvinb/',
+ 'baseurl' => 'https://downloads.php.net/',
],
],
diff --git a/include/releases.inc b/include/releases.inc
index 11149c0341..c3d61541ce 100644
--- a/include/releases.inc
+++ b/include/releases.inc
@@ -2,6 +2,43 @@
$OLDRELEASES = array (
8 =>
array (
+ '8.4.24' =>
+ array (
+ 'announcement' =>
+ array (
+ 'English' => '/releases/8_4_24.php',
+ ),
+ 'tags' =>
+ array (
+ 0 => 'security',
+ ),
+ 'date' => '30 Jul 2026',
+ 'source' =>
+ array (
+ 0 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.4.24.tar.gz',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.4.24 (tar.gz)',
+ 'sha256' =>
'd5fe6a1d7633e70645dc757461eeb7b764ff6a04d0487f076dd56f1f9d8059db',
+ 'date' => '30 Jul 2026',
+ ),
+ 1 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.4.24.tar.bz2',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.4.24 (tar.bz2)',
+ 'sha256' =>
'286890447588510df110ede9e9ce09f1eb4f9856630b47fdc40ece70e20373cf',
+ 'date' => '30 Jul 2026',
+ ),
+ 2 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.4.24.tar.xz',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.4.24 (tar.xz)',
+ 'sha256' =>
'e127be09a8506f4327c5cfa78a614b00d210714484ec215ce0011b4a03c00731',
+ 'date' => '30 Jul 2026',
+ ),
+ ),
+ 'museum' => false,
+ ),
'8.4.23' =>
array (
'announcement' =>
diff --git a/include/version.inc b/include/version.inc
index d7f0acd87a..2a25d50219 100644
--- a/include/version.inc
+++ b/include/version.inc
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ $RELEASES = (function () {
/* PHP 8.4 Release */
$data['8.4'] = [
- 'version' => '8.4.24',
- 'date' => '30 Jul 2026',
- 'tags' => ['security'], // Set to ['security'] for security releases.
+ 'version' => '8.4.25',
+ 'date' => '27 Aug 2026',
+ 'tags' => [''], // Set to ['security'] for security releases.
'sha256' => [
- 'tar.gz' =>
'd5fe6a1d7633e70645dc757461eeb7b764ff6a04d0487f076dd56f1f9d8059db',
- 'tar.bz2' =>
'286890447588510df110ede9e9ce09f1eb4f9856630b47fdc40ece70e20373cf',
- 'tar.xz' =>
'e127be09a8506f4327c5cfa78a614b00d210714484ec215ce0011b4a03c00731',
+ 'tar.gz' =>
'5cde1da976b728fa09e6b549a4c8afcd0c180337028dacf34f73b11be50253db',
+ 'tar.bz2' =>
'952ccc1785266b958f4a1dcfc580e08eabbb79f44222d1eff192bcd98d91f6e3',
+ 'tar.xz' =>
'dc1ad8b4109898d9db49744450403874858c23efc685b1032a50bd1e83906848',
]
];
diff --git a/public/ChangeLog-8.php b/public/ChangeLog-8.php
index f8600dd3af..917c945264 100644
--- a/public/ChangeLog-8.php
+++ b/public/ChangeLog-8.php
@@ -1236,6 +1236,99 @@
<a id="PHP_8_4"></a>
+<section class="version" id="8.4.25"><!-- {{{ 8.4.25 -->
+<h3>Version 8.4.25</h3>
+<b><?php release_date('27-Aug-2026'); ?></b>
+<ul><li>Core:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 23088); ?> (Stack overflow
when comparing deeply nested arrays).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Date:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed leak on double DatePeriod::__construct() call.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>DOM:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 23116); ?> (Stack overflow
when normalizing a deeply nested DOMDocument).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 23117); ?> (Stack overflow
when normalizing a deeply nested Dom\XMLDocument).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22825); ?>
(DOMElement::setAttribute() fails silently when the DTD declares a default
value for the attribute).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22447); ?> (UAF at
dom_objects_free_storage when setting an attribute node that collides by local
name with a namespaced attribute).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 23120); ?> (Stack overflow
when comparing deeply nested DOM nodes with DOMNode::isEqualNode()).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>LibXML:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22752); ?> (Build failure
with libxml 2.15).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>MBString:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22779); ?> (mb_strrpos()
returns the wrong position for a negative offset in a non-UTF-8 encoding).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 21036); ?>
(mb_ereg_search_getregs() crashes after mb_eregi() invalidates the regex
cache).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Opcache:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22857); ?> (Function JIT
emits wrong code for FETCH_OBJ_FUNC_ARG on a property hook getter, losing
register-held variables).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22916); ?> (Preserve parent
regs in zend_jit_deoptimizer_start()).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>OpenSSL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix missing error check on invalid alpn protocols.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>PCRE:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 21134); ?> (Crash with \C +
UTF-8). Using \C in UTF-8 patterns is now forbidden.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Reflection:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 22905); ?> (Reflection
exception messages truncate on null bytes).</li>
+ <li>Fixed ReflectionProperty::isLazy() and skipLazyInitialization() using
the parent slot when a child class hooks an inherited property.</li>
+ <li>Fixed segfault in ReflectionMethod::createFromMethodName() on an
uninstantiable subclass.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Session:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix corruption in mod_mm.</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 23043); ?> (broken session
id code can cause zend_mm_heap corrupted).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>SimpleXML:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed integer element offsets that cannot resolve aliasing an existing
element.</li>
+ <li>Fixed segfault when comparing uninitialized SimpleXMLElement
instances.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Sockets:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed various memory related issues in ext/sockets.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>SQLite:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix leak when trying to close db if blob stream is still open.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Standard:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 23111); ?> (Stack overflow
in array_walk_recursive() with deeply nested arrays).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 23113); ?> (Stack overflow
in array_replace_recursive() with deeply nested arrays).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 23115); ?> (Stack overflow
in compact() with deeply nested arrays).</li>
+ <li>Fixed stack overflow in count() with COUNT_RECURSIVE and deeply nested
arrays.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Streams:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 15836); ?> (Use-after-free
when a user stream filter accesses $this->stream during the close
flush).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Sysvshm:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed out-of-bounds write when shm_attach() opens an existing segment
with a size larger than the segment actually is.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>XSL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed use-after-free when a DOMDocument subclass __clone() retains the
stylesheet copy made by XSLTProcessor::importStylesheet().</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Zip:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed ZipArchive::addGlob() and ZipArchive::addPattern() ignoring their
default options when no options array is given.</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+<!-- }}} --></section>
+
+
+
<section class="version" id="8.4.24"><!-- {{{ 8.4.24 -->
<h3>Version 8.4.24</h3>
<b><?php release_date('30-Jul-2026'); ?></b>
diff --git a/public/archive/archive.xml b/public/archive/archive.xml
index 9160be85ca..1cb30883fd 100644
--- a/public/archive/archive.xml
+++ b/public/archive/archive.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
<uri>http://php.net/contact</uri>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</author>
+ <xi:include href="entries/2026-08-27-2.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2026-08-27-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2026-08-25-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2026-08-18-1.xml"/>
diff --git a/public/archive/entries/2026-08-27-2.xml
b/public/archive/entries/2026-08-27-2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d9a39824ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/archive/entries/2026-08-27-2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";>
+ <title>PHP 8.4.25 Released!</title>
+ <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-08-27-2</id>
+ <published>2026-08-27T14:59:19+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2026-08-27T14:59:19+00:00</updated>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#2026-08-27-2"; rel="alternate"
type="text/html"/>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-08-27-2"; 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 8.4.25. This is a bug fix
release.</p>
+
+<p>All PHP 8.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.</p>
+
+<p>For source downloads of PHP 8.4.25 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=8.4";>there</a>.
+The list of changes is recorded in the <a
href="https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.4.25";>ChangeLog</a>.
+</p> </div>
+ </content>
+</entry>
diff --git a/public/releases/8_4_25.php b/public/releases/8_4_25.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ca2dfe364
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/releases/8_4_25.php
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?php
+$_SERVER['BASE_PAGE'] = 'releases/8_4_25.php';
+require_once __DIR__ . '/../../include/prepend.inc';
+site_header('PHP 8.4.25 Release Announcement', ['cache' => true,
'cache_control' => 30 * 60]);
+?>
+<h1>PHP 8.4.25 Release Announcement</h1>
+
+<p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP
8.4.25. This is a bug fix release.</p>
+
+<p>All PHP 8.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.</p>
+
+<p>For source downloads of PHP 8.4.25 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=8.4";>there</a>.
+The list of changes is recorded in the <a
href="https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.4.25";>ChangeLog</a>.
+</p>
+<?php site_footer();
