Caleb White has opened voting on the "Pipe Assignment Operator" RFC on the PHP internals mailing list.

The RFC, documented at wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe_assignment_operator, proposes an assignment variant of the pipe operator. There is one primary vote, which requires a two-thirds majority to pass. Voting closes on 2026-08-11 at 04:30:00 UTC.

Prior discussion took place on the internals list; interested developers can follow the vote and review the proposal via the RFC page and the discussion thread.