Author: Daniel Scherzer (DanielEScherzer)
Date: 2025-10-23T12:00:42-05:00
Commit:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/2d42d398682b025cea733c210948f11f8726d17b
Raw diff:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/2d42d398682b025cea733c210948f11f8726d17b.diff
Announce PHP 8.5.0RC3
Changed paths:
A archive/entries/2025-10-23-1.xml
M archive/archive.xml
M include/release-qa.php
Diff:
diff --git a/archive/archive.xml b/archive/archive.xml
index 17d632a88d..d51e7ace1d 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/2025-10-23-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2025-10-09-2.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2025-10-09-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2025-10-08-1.xml"/>
diff --git a/archive/entries/2025-10-23-1.xml b/archive/entries/2025-10-23-1.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9628caf655
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive/entries/2025-10-23-1.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 3 available for testing</title>
+ <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2025.php#2025-10-23-1</id>
+ <published>2025-10-23T16:59:13+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2025-10-23T16:59:13+00:00</updated>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#2025-10-23-1"; rel="alternate"
type="text/html"/>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2025.php#2025-10-23-1"; 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 third release candidate of PHP
8.5.0, RC 3.
+ 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 RC3, 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-8.5.0RC3/NEWS";>NEWS</a> file, or
the <a
href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.5.0RC3/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 RC4, planned for 6 Nov 2025.</p>
+ <p>The signatures for the release can be found in the <a
href="https://gist.github.com/DanielEScherzer/ec766d22a6c33d3eeed2f8783df85278";>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 c92e9a9d97..5fcc80f456 100644
--- a/include/release-qa.php
+++ b/include/release-qa.php
@@ -101,12 +101,12 @@
'active' => true,
'release' => [
'type' => 'RC',
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- 'date' => '09 Oct 2025',
- 'baseurl' => 'https://downloads.php.net/~edorian/',
+ 'number' => 3,
+ 'sha256_bz2' =>
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+ 'date' => '23 Oct 2025',
+ 'baseurl' => 'https://downloads.php.net/~daniels/',
],
],
];
