--- title: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6 | daily.dev description: The PHP internals mailing list thread covers the RFC for deprecations planned in PHP 8.6, compiled from proposals submitted over the past year. Each... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-deprecations-for-php-8-6-jau6tzws2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6 | daily.dev og:description: The PHP internals mailing list thread covers the RFC for deprecations planned in PHP 8.6, compiled from proposals submitted over the past year. Each... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-deprecations-for-php-8-6-jau6tzws2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jAu6tzWS2.png og:image:alt: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6 **[externals.io](https://daily.dev/sources/externals)** · 103 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The PHP internals mailing list thread covers the RFC for deprecations planned in PHP 8.6, compiled from proposals submitted over the past year. Each deprecation will be voted on individually, with a freeze deadline of July 13th. A notable discussion emerges around the lack of impact analyses for most proposals — Juliette Reinders Folmer calls it irresponsible, while Tim Düsterhus argues that deprecations are not breaking changes and that impact analyses based on public code are inherently biased and incomplete. Rowan Tommins sides with Juliette, stating proposals without impact data will receive automatic 'No' votes. One concrete example shared is the 'return-in-finally' deprecation, where an analysis of ~5000 Composer packages found only 12 affected sites across 9 packages (0.18%), with 3 being actual latent bugs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-deprecations-for-php-8-6-jau6tzws2) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"[RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-deprecations-for-php-8-6-jau6tzws2","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-deprecations-for-php-8-6-jau6tzws2"},"datePublished":"2026-07-07T20:30:40.793Z","dateModified":"2026-07-07T20:31:07.862Z","description":"The PHP internals mailing list thread covers the RFC for deprecations planned in PHP 8.6, compiled from proposals submitted over the past year. Each...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"externals.io","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"externals.io","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--9i0zxASK--/f_auto,q_auto/v1780213616/logos/externals?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/externals"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-deprecations-for-php-8-6-jau6tzws2","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"php","timeRequired":"PT103M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"externals.io","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/externals"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"[RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6"}]} ```