Author: Daniel Scherzer (DanielEScherzer)
Date: 2025-09-25T18:16:14-07:00
Commit:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/e64d60e5cad730bd51181cf48e28660312bf80d9
Raw diff:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/e64d60e5cad730bd51181cf48e28660312bf80d9.diff
Announce PHP 8.5.0RC1
Changed paths:
A archive/entries/2025-09-25-3.xml
M archive/archive.xml
M include/release-qa.php
Diff:
diff --git a/archive/archive.xml b/archive/archive.xml
index 86fcc3de83..2676873dd8 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/2025-09-25-3.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2025-09-25-2.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2025-09-25-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2025-09-23-1.xml"/>
diff --git a/archive/entries/2025-09-25-3.xml b/archive/entries/2025-09-25-3.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bfb16da64d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive/entries/2025-09-25-3.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";>
+ <title>PHP 8.5.0 RC 1 available for testing</title>
+ <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2025.php#2025-09-25-3</id>
+ <published>2025-09-25T23:24:19+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2025-09-25T23:24:19+00:00</updated>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#2025-09-25-3"; rel="alternate"
type="text/html"/>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2025.php#2025-09-25-3"; rel="via"
type="text/html"/>
+ <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/>
+ <content type="xhtml">
+ <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
+ <p>
+ The PHP team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of PHP
8.5.0, RC 1.
+ This continues the PHP 8.5 release cycle, the rough outline of which is
specified in the
+ <a href="https://wiki.php.net/todo/php85";>PHP Wiki</a>.
+ </p>
+ <p>For source downloads of PHP 8.5.0 RC1, please visit the <a
href="https://downloads.php.net/~daniels";>download page</a>.</p>
+ <p>Please carefully test this version and report any issues found <a
href="https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/new?template=bug_report.yml";>on
GitHub</a>.</p>
+ <p><strong>Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early
test version.</strong></p>
+ <p>For more information on the new features and other changes, you can
read the <a
href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.5.0RC1/NEWS";>NEWS</a> file, or
the <a
href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.5.0RC1/UPGRADING";>UPGRADING</a>
file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in
the release archive.</p>
+ <p>The next release will be RC2, planned for 9 Oct 2025.</p>
+ <p>The signatures for the release can be found in the <a
href="https://gist.github.com/DanielEScherzer/7a3d8b15cff4c7a059b54a27a680106a";>manifest</a>
or on the <a href="https://www.php.net/release-candidates.php";>Release
Candidates page</a>.</p>
+ <p>Thank you for helping us make PHP better.</p>
+ </div>
+ </content>
+</entry>
diff --git a/include/release-qa.php b/include/release-qa.php
index 6a688c2a0f..4460339083 100644
--- a/include/release-qa.php
+++ b/include/release-qa.php
@@ -100,13 +100,13 @@
'8.5.0' => [
'active' => true,
'release' => [
- 'type' => 'beta',
- 'number' => 3,
- 'sha256_bz2' =>
'897593d9fe0f5f6dd782e1e187323c407ef937a9e860e3552d3548621c260cc8',
- 'sha256_gz' =>
'ff3f5a8c73c4b84883ef0e3870543c078d324c46ccef2eb85c66cb88124e7a55',
- 'sha256_xz' =>
'ffde3f5c02187ff0bef28abad7fb0cfa389f47b79a324a8af6ae96b6b60f20cf',
- 'date' => '11 Sep 2025',
- 'baseurl' => 'https://downloads.php.net/~edorian/',
+ 'type' => 'RC',
+ 'number' => 1,
+ 'sha256_bz2' =>
'8365ae9263cc160e6182302f0bdcc80edf1806029556e6870beb3078a625389c',
+ 'sha256_gz' =>
'0ea5059a387117fe6ed9a72cdc20945dbff6acc072df936e97d35a9cb26420e0',
+ 'sha256_xz' =>
'96f064b5d604e00e5fe1c993d4881da659a99d6d1d8ac0b1df8fec6406e34a9d',
+ 'date' => '25 Sep 2025',
+ 'baseurl' => 'https://downloads.php.net/~daniels/',
],
],
];
