Hi internals, This is your one week warning for the PHP 8.5 branch cut.
Next Tuesday (September 23) I will be creating the PHP-8.5 branch as part of the packaging of PHP 8.5.0RC1. At that point, master will be for PHP 8.6, and the default will be that changes target PHP 8.6. If patches need to be made against PHP 8.5, please ping the PHP 8.5 release managers team for review. The branch cut also represents the "hard feature freeze" - even features that would not need to go through an RFC cannot be incorporated into PHP 8.5 at that point and will need to wait. For those of us with karma, after the branch cut the merge workflow for bug fixes will change - PHP 8.4 will get merged into PHP 8.5, and PHP 8.5 into master. Please keep an eye on GitHub if you are going to be merging bug fixes to ensure that your merges are applied to the correct branches. Your PHP 8.5 RM team, Daniel Scherzer, Volker Dusch, and Pierrick Charron
