This Week In PHP Internals | July 22, 2026

Short summary

A weekly digest of PHP Internals mailing list activity covering 20 stories. Key items include lopsided ballot voting on the Time\Duration class (23-1 in favor), minimum supported version requirements for PHP 8.6 builds, and a major gd 2.4 RFC syncing the bundled extension with upstream libgd. A subplot emerged about value structs potentially arriving in PHP 9 alongside Duration.

• •Time\Duration class ballot leads 23-1 with full method names (multiplyBy/divideBy) preferred over abbreviated
• •PHP 8.6 minimum version votes require autoconf 2.71 and COM_RESET_CONNECTION (MySQL 5.7.3+ floor)
• •gd 2.4 RFC proposes syncing bundled extension with upstream libgd: new codecs, animated formats, and object-oriented API

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