[PHP-WEBMASTER] [web-php] master: Announce PHP 8.5.0alpha1

Author: Daniel Scherzer (DanielEScherzer)
Date: 2025-07-03T11:01:53-07:00

Commit: Announce PHP 8.5.0alpha1 · php/web-php@b3baefe · GitHub
Raw diff: PHP 8.5.0 Alpha 1 available for testing

Announce PHP 8.5.0alpha1

Changed paths:
  A archive/entries/2025-07-03-5.xml
  M archive/archive.xml
  M include/release-qa.php

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diff --git a/archive/archive.xml b/archive/archive.xml
index edc02878e8..519f890703 100644
--- a/archive/archive.xml
+++ b/archive/archive.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     <uri>PHP: Manual Quick Reference;
     <email>php-webmaster@lists.php.net</email>
   </author>
+ <xi:include href="entries/2025-07-03-5.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2025-07-03-4.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2025-07-03-3.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2025-07-03-2.xml"/>
diff --git a/archive/entries/2025-07-03-5.xml b/archive/entries/2025-07-03-5.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6a035ec2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive/entries/2025-07-03-5.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom&quot;&gt;
+ <title>PHP 8.5.0 Alpha 1 available for testing</title>
+ <id>PHP: News Archive - 2025;
+ <published>2025-07-03T17:59:40+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2025-07-03T17:59:40+00:00</updated>
+ <link href="PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor; rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+ <link href="PHP: News Archive - 2025; rel="via" type="text/html"/>
+ <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/>
+ <content type="xhtml">
+ <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;&gt;
+ <p>The PHP team is pleased to announce the first testing release of PHP 8.5.0, Alpha 1. This starts the PHP 8.5 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the <a href="PHP: todo:php85 Wiki</a>.</p>
+ <p>For source downloads of PHP 8.5.0 Alpha 1 please visit the <a href="https://downloads.php.net/~daniels/&quot;&gt;download page</a>.</p>
+ <p>Please carefully test this version and report any issues found <a href="Sign in to GitHub · GitHub 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-8.5.0alpha1/NEWS&quot;&gt;NEWS&lt;/a&gt; file, or the <a href="https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-8.5.0alpha1/UPGRADING&quot;&gt;UPGRADING&lt;/a&gt; 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 Alpha 2, planned for 17 Jul 2025.</p>
+ <p>The signatures for the release can be found in the <a href="https://gist.github.com/DanielEScherzer/34f32cb39e432134d77c618642972b84&quot;&gt;manifest&lt;/a&gt; or on the <a href="PHP: Manual Quick Reference 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 7b6d03c8bc..0f217161a1 100644
--- a/include/release-qa.php
+++ b/include/release-qa.php
@@ -96,6 +96,19 @@
             'baseurl' => 'Index of /~saki‘,
         ],
     ],
+
+ '8.5.0' => [
+ 'active' => true,
+ 'release' => [
+ 'type' => 'alpha',
+ 'number' => 1,
+ 'sha256_bz2' => '5840cd1ca7e73beab84abe184c135bcf72732f680d5c25729a813d66c93f9fbc',
+ 'sha256_gz' => '381587f9f9a2e6c710a307760872629c9446f88f1a646e6f3e757702be7478a8',
+ 'sha256_xz' => 'f21c207b350de8555b9630a7ac7d0893c553186f1b5027236728b29cc99fe4b4',
+ 'date' => '03 Jul 2025',
+ 'baseurl' => 'Index of /~daniels’,
+ ],
+ ],
];

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