Author: Calvin Buckley (NattyNarwhal)
Date: 2026-01-15T15:35:40-04:00
Commit:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/e4b5593ea3f13fd0711716d3faa3f3e4bb3d7f6f
Raw diff:
https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/e4b5593ea3f13fd0711716d3faa3f3e4bb3d7f6f.diff
Announce PHP 8.4.17
Changed paths:
A archive/entries/2026-01-15-1.xml
A releases/8_4_17.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 e0acbcc201..0ddb66d8c0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog-8.php
+++ b/ChangeLog-8.php
@@ -599,6 +599,79 @@
<a id="PHP_8_4"></a>
+<section class="version" id="8.4.17"><!-- {{{ 8.4.17 -->
+<h3>Version 8.4.17</h3>
+<b><?php release_date('15-Jan-2026'); ?></b>
+<ul><li>Core:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix OSS-Fuzz #465488618 (Wrong assumptions when dumping function
signature with dynamic class const lookup default argument).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20695); ?> (Assertion
failure in normalize_value() when parsing malformed INI input via
parse_ini_string()).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20714); ?> (Uncatchable
exception thrown in generator).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20352); ?> (UAF in
php_output_handler_free via re-entrant ob_start() during error
deactivation).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Bz2:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20620); ?> (bzcompress
overflow on large source size).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>DOM:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20722); ?> (Null pointer
dereference in DOM namespace node cloning via clone on malformed objects).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20444); ?>
(Dom\XMLDocument::C14N() seems broken compared to DOMDocument::C14N()).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>GD:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20622); ?>
(imagestring/imagestringup overflow).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Intl:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix leak in umsg_format_helper().</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>LDAP:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix memory leak in ldap_set_options().</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Mbstring:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20674); ?>
(mb_decode_mimeheader does not handle separator).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>PCNTL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug with pcntl_getcpuaffinity() on solaris regarding invalid
process ids handling.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Phar:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20732); ?> (Phar::LoadPhar
undefined behavior when reading fails).</li>
+ <li>Fix SplFileInfo::openFile() in write mode.</li>
+ <li>Fix build on legacy OpenSSL 1.1.0 systems.</li>
+ <li><?php bugfix(74154); ?> (Phar extractTo creates empty files).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>POSIX:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed crash on posix groups to php array creation on macos.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>SPL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20678); ?> (resource created
by GlobIterator crashes with fclose()).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Sqlite3:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20699); ?> (SQLite3Result
fetchArray return array|false, null returned).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Standard:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix error check for proc_open() command.</li>
+ <li>Fix memory leak in mail() when header key is numeric.</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20582); ?> (Heap Buffer
Overflow in iptcembed).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Zlib:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix OOB gzseek() causing assertion failure.</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+<!-- }}} --></section>
+
+
+
<section class="version" id="8.4.16"><!-- {{{ 8.4.16 -->
<h3>Version 8.4.16</h3>
<b><?php release_date('18-Dec-2025'); ?></b>
diff --git a/archive/archive.xml b/archive/archive.xml
index 13ed84a487..b80c8ee480 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/2026-01-15-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2025-12-18-5.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2025-12-18-4.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2025-12-18-3.xml"/>
diff --git a/archive/entries/2026-01-15-1.xml b/archive/entries/2026-01-15-1.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ce7e29bac2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive/entries/2026-01-15-1.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";>
+ <title>PHP 8.4.17 Released!</title>
+ <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-01-15-1</id>
+ <published>2026-01-15T19:32:42+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2026-01-15T19:32:42+00:00</updated>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#2026-01-15-1"; rel="alternate"
type="text/html"/>
+ <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-01-15-1"; 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 8.4.17. 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 8.4.17 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#8.4.17";>ChangeLog</a>.
+</p> </div>
+ </content>
+</entry>
diff --git a/include/release-qa.php b/include/release-qa.php
index 4d40d01be1..8cd6f698ef 100644
--- a/include/release-qa.php
+++ b/include/release-qa.php
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@
'active' => true,
'release' => [
'type' => 'RC',
- 'number' => 1,
- 'sha256_bz2' =>
'02abfe473ff3aa12a06ac6fedfe896cb8c082c108d46e17a1d9174bb139d2d1b',
- 'sha256_gz' =>
'a3062494dffd9be5be259eb20da6dc248954c5322b681b98b0a5cc93d125808d',
- 'sha256_xz' =>
'0d86b6a92d8af1b25671c3abe558d035f26aefb48218fada3757406e1cbf4dd8',
+ 'number' => 0,
+ 'sha256_bz2' => '',
+ 'sha256_gz' => '',
+ 'sha256_xz' => '',
'date' => '01 Jan 2026',
- 'baseurl' => 'https://downloads.php.net/~calvinb/',
+ 'baseurl' => 'https://downloads.php.net/',
],
],
diff --git a/include/releases.inc b/include/releases.inc
index 19a97edd4a..081567a41b 100644
--- a/include/releases.inc
+++ b/include/releases.inc
@@ -2,6 +2,43 @@
$OLDRELEASES = array (
8 =>
array (
+ '8.4.16' =>
+ array (
+ 'announcement' =>
+ array (
+ 'English' => '/releases/8_4_16.php',
+ ),
+ 'tags' =>
+ array (
+ 0 => 'security',
+ ),
+ 'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
+ 'source' =>
+ array (
+ 0 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.4.16.tar.gz',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.4.16 (tar.gz)',
+ 'sha256' =>
'8e35d24f148ea7c2a93e9b9bcc329e8bf78b5bb922f3723a727c74c19d184e98',
+ 'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
+ ),
+ 1 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.4.16.tar.bz2',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.4.16 (tar.bz2)',
+ 'sha256' =>
'6c48c65eba6a2f7a102925d08772239b1f45110aed2187fdd81b933ed439c692',
+ 'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
+ ),
+ 2 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.4.16.tar.xz',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.4.16 (tar.xz)',
+ 'sha256' =>
'f66f8f48db34e9e29f7bfd6901178e9cf4a1b163e6e497716dfcb8f88bcfae30',
+ 'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
+ ),
+ ),
+ 'museum' => false,
+ ),
'8.1.34' =>
array (
'announcement' =>
diff --git a/include/version.inc b/include/version.inc
index 924139a126..d238c42601 100644
--- a/include/version.inc
+++ b/include/version.inc
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ $RELEASES = (function () {
/* PHP 8.4 Release */
$data['8.4'] = [
- 'version' => '8.4.16',
- 'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
- 'tags' => ['security'], // Set to ['security'] for security releases.
+ 'version' => '8.4.17',
+ 'date' => '15 Jan 2026',
+ 'tags' => [], // Set to ['security'] for security releases.
'sha256' => [
- 'tar.gz' =>
'8e35d24f148ea7c2a93e9b9bcc329e8bf78b5bb922f3723a727c74c19d184e98',
- 'tar.bz2' =>
'6c48c65eba6a2f7a102925d08772239b1f45110aed2187fdd81b933ed439c692',
- 'tar.xz' =>
'f66f8f48db34e9e29f7bfd6901178e9cf4a1b163e6e497716dfcb8f88bcfae30',
+ 'tar.gz' =>
'aa0efeb7b47adff31e10bed1fc4ffcd4c0b5a4d41ab0bacfbb549c584939ee90',
+ 'tar.bz2' =>
'ea67d83d72dd6f3abaaeae7f532f78fd12192861d96aba8e9eca3b2ddade42d2',
+ 'tar.xz' =>
'28b234e347286158cae921d61283eb1169d89bc9d2e5f5976567260ff38b0bfa',
]
];
diff --git a/releases/8_4_17.php b/releases/8_4_17.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f57189ccc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/8_4_17.php
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?php
+$_SERVER['BASE_PAGE'] = 'releases/8_4_17.php';
+include_once __DIR__ . '/../include/prepend.inc';
+site_header('PHP 8.4.17 Release Announcement');
+?>
+<h1>PHP 8.4.17 Release Announcement</h1>
+
+<p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP
8.4.17. 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 8.4.17 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#8.4.17";>ChangeLog</a>.
+</p>
+<?php site_footer();
