February 25-27, 2026
Montreal, Canada

PHP 8.5: New Features from the Source

Join PHP 8.5 release manager Daniel Scherzer for a deep dive into the new features, syntax updates, deprecations, and surprises PHP 8.5. Whether you're maintaining legacy apps or building bleeding-edge libraries, this talk will help you switch to PHP 8.5 with confidence. Features include a new URL handling extension, expanded syntax support in constant expressions, the pipe operator (`|>`), object cloning with property changes, and more.

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Daniel Scherzer

Daniel is an open source contributor mainly focused on PHP and its ecosystem. He contributes as @DanielEScherzer on GitHub. See https://scherzer.dev/ for more.

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