December 8, 2025 - PHP 8.5 is still warm, but the work to push PHP forward continues. The latest major feature for PHP 8.6 has just been approved: Partial Function Application (PFA).

PHP 8.6: What's new and changed. PHP 8.6 is the active development branch, expected to be released towards the end of the 2026.

December 16, 2025 - You now have a realistic release window for PHP 8.6 based on the recent late-November cadence. We covered the features already accepted or in implementation, including partial function application and clamp(). We grouped every other currently proposed RFC for PHP 8.6 that is still draft or under discussion, with a short description of what it would change.

December 7, 2025 - PHP 8.6 is already taking shape. I track its release date, confirmed features like partial function application and clamp(), plus RFCs that might still land.

December 28, 2025 - PHP 8.6: A Small Release That Quietly Changes How You Write Code Less Boilerplate, Cleaner Functions, Better Intent PHP 8.6 is not trying to be flashy. This is not a release full of big marketing …

At time of writing, the earliest we will likely see partial function application is with PHP 8.6, planned for release in 2026.

January 6, 2026 - Here’s a breakdown of PHP 8.6’s new features that will directly change how we write code day to day.

It contains many new features and optimizations including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, JIT, and improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency.

January 23, 2026 - In closing, I think PFA is an amazing feature, and it will especially be useful combined with the pipe operator. I'm already looking forward to PHP 8.6!

December 30, 2025 - PHP 8.4 has arrived as a major ... in November 2024, this version introduces property hooks, asymmetric visibility, a revamped DOM API, and numerous performance enhancements....

January 23, 2026 - My excitement around this particular feature is close to how excited I was when Enums landed back in 8.1. And is a good timing since I'm coming back to work full time in a PHP project after a 2 year break with Python ecosystem.

December 8, 2025 - PHP 8.6 will introduce partial function application (PFA), allowing developers to create closures by replacing function arguments with placeholders (? or ...). This feature extends PHP 8.1's first-class callable syntax and works seamlessly with ...

March 31, 2025 - PHP 8.4 introduces performance improvements, new array and string functions, typed class constants, and enhanced readonly properties.

December 5, 2025 - Partial Function Application in PHP 8.6 will let you write a “pre‑configured” callable by calling a function with some arguments and using placeholders for the rest.

As if property hooks alone wasn't enough, PHP 8.4 has another feature that will save so much boilerplate code: you don't have to wrap new invocations within parenthesis anymore to be able to chain methods on them.

September 26, 2024 - In this blog, I walk through what you need to know about PHP 8.4 now that it has released. I discuss critical dates to keep in mind, explore new features, outline deprecations, and discuss considerations for teams building a migration plan.