--- title: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 8.6 | daily.dev description: The PHP internals mailing list is discussing the RFC for deprecations planned for PHP 8.6. Gina P. Banyard announced the RFC, noting each deprecation will be... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-deprecations-for-php-8-6-oenfoqd0h 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 is discussing the RFC for deprecations planned for PHP 8.6. Gina P. Banyard announced the RFC, noting each deprecation will be... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rfc-deprecations-for-php-8-6-oenfoqd0h og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oENFoqd0h.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)** · 16 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The PHP internals mailing list is discussing the RFC for deprecations planned for PHP 8.6. Gina P. Banyard announced the RFC, noting each deprecation will be voted on individually and the RFC must be frozen by July 13th. Key discussion points include: concerns about the lack of impact analysis for most proposals (raised by Juliette Reinders Folmer), with Osama Aldemeery sharing a detailed analysis for the 'return-in-finally' deprecation showing it affects only 0.18% of the top 5000 Composer packages. Controversial proposals include deprecating the `_()` alias for `gettext()` (seen as highly disruptive), deprecating 'let' as an identifier (debated given the failed block-scoping RFC), and deprecating `CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION` (widely used in Guzzle and Symfony, with discussion about internally mapping it to `CURLOPT_XFERINFOFUNCTION` instead). The thread also touches on whether certain deprecations are justified or merely cosmetic changes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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