Nick Sdot has opened a PHP internals vote on the RFC “End PEAR Project Endorsement”. The proposal concerns PHP’s endorsement of the PEAR project. The announcement provides no technical implementation details.

The RFC has one primary vote and requires a two-thirds majority for acceptance. Voting closes on 19 October 2026 at 13:15 UTC. The announcement links to the RFC wiki page at https://wiki.php.net/rfc/end_pear_endorsement and to the discussion thread at https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/132358.