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PHP 8.6.0RC3 ready for testing
php.net Releases, October 8, 2026
The PHP project has tagged PHP 8.6.0RC3 — a pre-release of the upcoming 8.6 branch with 69 changelog entries across 19 components.
The PHP project has tagged PHP 8.6.0RC3, a pre-release build of the upcoming 8.6 branch. It is meant for testing, not for production: the 69 changelog entries across 19 components — among them BCMath, BZ2, DOM, FFI, Intl, Lexbor … — preview what 8.6 will ship.
Now is the time to run your applications and extensions against this build and report regressions upstream — every issue caught before GA saves the whole ecosystem an upgrade headache. The changelog so far is below; QA builds are available on qa.php.net.
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