Author: Volker Dusch (edorian)
Date: 2026-02-12T20:24:04+01:00
Commit: Announce PHP 8.5.3 · php/web-php@de12c8a · GitHub
Raw diff: PHP 8.5.3 Released!
Announce PHP 8.5.3
Changed paths:
A archive/entries/2026-02-12-2.xml
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 9accf4c5a5..194df396dc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog-8.php
+++ b/ChangeLog-8.php
@@ -9,6 +9,74 @@
<a id="PHP_8_5"></a>
+<section class="version" id="8.5.3"><!-- {{{ 8.5.3 -->
+<h3>Version 8.5.3</h3>
+<b><?php release_date('12-Feb-2026'); ?></b>
+<ul><li>Core:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20806); ?> (preserve_none feature compatiblity with LTO).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20767); ?> (build failure with musttail/preserve_none feature on macOs).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20837); ?> (NULL dereference when calling ob_start() in shutdown function triggered by bailout in php_output_lock_error()).</li>
+ <li>Fix OSS-Fuzz #471533782 (Infinite loop in GC destructor fiber).</li>
+ <li>Fix OSS-Fuzz #472563272 (Borked block_pass JMP[N]Z optimization).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20914); ?> (Internal enums can be cloned and compared).</li>
+ <li>Fix OSS-Fuzz #474613951 (Leaked parent property default value).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20895); ?> (ReflectionProperty does not return the PHPDoc of a property if it contains an attribute with a Closure).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20766); ?> (Use-after-free in FE_FREE with GC interaction).</li>
+ <li>Fix OSS-Fuzz #471486164 (Broken by-ref assignment to uninitialized hooked backing value).</li>
+ <li>Fix OSS-Fuzz #438780145 (Nested finally with repeated return type check may uaf).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20905); ?> (Lazy proxy bailing __clone assertion).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20479); ?> (Hooked object properties overflow).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Date:
+<ul>
+ <li>Update timelib to 2022.16.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>DOM:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 21041); ?> (Dom\HTMLDocument corrupts closing tags within scripts).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>MbString:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20833); ?> (mb_str_pad() divide by zero if padding string is invalid in the encoding).</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20836); ?> (Stack overflow in mb_convert_variables with recursive array references).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Opcache:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20818); ?> (Segfault in Tracing JIT with object reference).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>OpenSSL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fix memory leaks when sk_X509_new_null() fails.</li>
+ <li>Fix crash when in openssl_x509_parse() when i2s_ASN1_INTEGER() fails.</li>
+ <li>Fix crash in openssl_x509_parse() when X509_NAME_oneline() fails.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Phar:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20882); ?> (buildFromIterator breaks with missing base directory).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>PGSQL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed INSERT/UPDATE queries building with PQescapeIdentifier() and possible UB.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Readline:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 18139); ?> (Memory leak when overriding some settings via readline_info()).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>SPL:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20856); ?> (heap-use-after-free in SplDoublyLinkedList iterator when modifying during iteration).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Standard:
+<ul>
+ <li><?php bugfix(74357); ?> (lchown fails to change ownership of symlink with ZTS) (Jakub Zelenka)</li>
+ <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20843); ?> (var_dump() crash with nested objects) (David Carlier)</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+<!-- }}} --></section>
+
+
+
<section class="version" id="8.5.2"><!-- {{{ 8.5.2 -->
<h3>Version 8.5.2</h3>
<b><?php release_date('15-Jan-2026'); ?></b>
diff --git a/archive/archive.xml b/archive/archive.xml
index 9440fe8cd8..bae4eb0657 100644
--- a/archive/archive.xml
+++ b/archive/archive.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
<uri>http://php.net/contact</uri>
<email>php-webmaster@lists.php.net</email>
</author>
+ <xi:include href="entries/2026-02-12-2.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2026-02-12-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2026-02-09-1.xml"/>
<xi:include href="entries/2026-01-15-3.xml"/>
diff --git a/archive/entries/2026-02-12-2.xml b/archive/entries/2026-02-12-2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc98d25d17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive/entries/2026-02-12-2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+ <title>PHP 8.5.3 Released!</title>
+ <id>PHP: News Archive - 2026;
+ <published>2026-02-12T19:20:03+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2026-02-12T19:20:03+00:00</updated>
+ <link href="PHP; rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+ <link href="PHP: News Archive - 2026; 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 8.5.3. This is a bug fix release.</p>
+
+<p>All PHP 8.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.</p>
+
+<p>For source downloads of PHP 8.5.3 please visit our <a href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php">downloads page</a>,
+Windows source and binaries can also be found <a href="PHP: Downloads.
+The list of changes is recorded in the <a href="PHP: PHP 8 ChangeLog.
+</p> </div>
+ </content>
+</entry>
diff --git a/include/release-qa.php b/include/release-qa.php
index 6cd7f680bc..6f011c071e 100644
--- a/include/release-qa.php
+++ b/include/release-qa.php
@@ -88,10 +88,10 @@
'active' => true,
'release' => [
'type' => 'RC',
- 'number' => 1,
- 'sha256_bz2' => '3ee15446ce78722807e2f7b7bc4a05248005e258d16eec8693091235b66eb335',
- 'sha256_gz' => '63ce96a80c466891fdb1d4841704c846bb71c2b10c1bdaeb0298332dd4863087',
- 'sha256_xz' => 'a73812e2b30a5f40833432fb329c51ca5ed3099180940090a5ebdb6303a1280a',
+ 'number' => 0,
+ 'sha256_bz2' => '',
+ 'sha256_gz' => '',
+ 'sha256_xz' => '',
'date' => '29 Jan 2026',
'baseurl' => 'Index of /~edorian',
],
diff --git a/include/releases.inc b/include/releases.inc
index 5348df659c..e49510641a 100644
--- a/include/releases.inc
+++ b/include/releases.inc
@@ -2,6 +2,42 @@
$OLDRELEASES = array (
8 =>
array (
+ '8.5.2' =>
+ array (
+ 'announcement' =>
+ array (
+ 'English' => '/releases/8_5_2.php',
+ ),
+ 'tags' =>
+ array (
+ ),
+ 'date' => '15 Jan 2026',
+ 'source' =>
+ array (
+ 0 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.5.2.tar.gz',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.5.2 (tar.gz)',
+ 'sha256' => '379ccccefcc85f28286444cf01bc0db017c79d513417267f5bb1d804b8428c22',
+ 'date' => '15 Jan 2026',
+ ),
+ 1 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.5.2.tar.bz2',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.5.2 (tar.bz2)',
+ 'sha256' => 'f7efdeccc3a810b18920692306536b99a3ba86610dbd0795a296cf77d3fb3a06',
+ 'date' => '15 Jan 2026',
+ ),
+ 2 =>
+ array (
+ 'filename' => 'php-8.5.2.tar.xz',
+ 'name' => 'PHP 8.5.2 (tar.xz)',
+ 'sha256' => 'cb75a9b00a2806f7390dd64858ef42a47b443b3475769c8af6af33a18b1381f1',
+ 'date' => '15 Jan 2026',
+ ),
+ ),
+ 'museum' => false,
+ ),
'8.4.17' =>
array (
'announcement' =>
diff --git a/include/version.inc b/include/version.inc
index 397dd62204..00166b423f 100644
--- a/include/version.inc
+++ b/include/version.inc
@@ -20,15 +20,15 @@ $RELEASES = (function () {
/* PHP 8.5 Release */
$data['8.5'] = [
- 'version' => '8.5.2',
- 'date' => '15 Jan 2026',
+ 'version' => '8.5.3',
+ 'date' => '12 Feb 2026',
'tags' => [], // Set to ['security'] for security releases.
'sha256' => [
// WARNING: Order of SHA256 entries here is DIFFERENT from the
// order in the manifest
- 'tar.gz' => '379ccccefcc85f28286444cf01bc0db017c79d513417267f5bb1d804b8428c22',
- 'tar.bz2' => 'f7efdeccc3a810b18920692306536b99a3ba86610dbd0795a296cf77d3fb3a06',
- 'tar.xz' => 'cb75a9b00a2806f7390dd64858ef42a47b443b3475769c8af6af33a18b1381f1',
+ 'tar.gz' => '402654d99b4beda602d4daec4f1cd39aafdacf5923e3e947da87392826660146',
+ 'tar.bz2' => 'fc5ecabc183ceb64d9fca3dcd387bd29b2b67448326af998fde003124916823b',
+ 'tar.xz' => 'ce65725b8af07356b69a6046d21487040b11f2acfde786de38b2bfb712c36eb9',
]
];