PHP digest — 11 October 2026

A Sunday with no releases and no RFC status changes. Two items are list discussion on proposals that are still Under discussion; the third is merged Symfony 8.2 development work, not a release.

ext/csv: RFC version 1.2, and the author asks which direction to take

The CSV extension RFC (proposed for the release after PHP 8.6) is now version 1.2. It rejects ambiguous overlapping delimiter/enclosure/EOL combinations with ValueError (previously an open issue), names two gaps left by the PHP 8.6 SplFileObject CSV deprecation, and states that the existing CSV functions are neither changed nor deprecated. In a reply to the reviewer who argued for improving the built-in functions, the author agreed that the RFC's "cannot be fixed without breaking compatibility" claim is too broad. They offered three directions: improve ext/standard, continue with ext/csv plus stream entry points, or an object-oriented Csv\ API. They asked whether a directional vote would help if discussion does not settle it. No vote is scheduled and PR #24199 is open. See the RFC page.

Polling API additions: 15-point review

Tim Düsterhus reviewed the Polling API Additions RFC, which extends PHP 8.6's Io\Poll with weak, socket, timer, signal, process and notification handles. They supported splitting it into separate votes, asked whether WeakReference could replace dedicated weak handle classes, questioned the TimerHandle name and namespace, and suggested a proc_*() function to create process handles. The RFC is version 1.0; no author reply was collected. See the RFC page.

Symfony 8.2 branch: attribute-defined workflows, #[Lock], RecorderHttpClient

A Week of Symfony #1032 lists newly merged 8.2-branch changes: workflows defined with PHP attributes, a #[Lock] attribute to reject or delay concurrent requests, a RecorderHttpClient to record and replay HTTP exchanges, and an ExpressionLanguage ConstantFunctionProvider that deprecates the unrestricted constant() and enum() functions. These are merged development changes; Symfony 8.2 is not released. The 8.2 posts summarised in the same issue were covered in earlier digests.

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