The second alpha version of PHP 8.2.0 has been released for testing.

php-8.2.0alpha2

- Core:
. Fixed bug GH-8655 (Casting an object to array does not unwrap refcount=1 references). (Nicolas Grekas)
. Fixed bug GH-8661 (Nullsafe in coalesce triggers undefined variable warning). (ilutov)
. Fixed bug GH-7821 and GH-8418 (Allow arbitrary const expressions in backed enums). (ilutov)

- Curl:
. Added new constants from cURL 7.62 to 7.80. (Pierrick)
. New function curl_upkeep(). (Pierrick)

- OpenSSL:
. Discard poll calls on socket when no timeout/non blocking/MSG_DONTWAIT. (Max Kellermann)

- PCRE:
. Implemented FR #77726 (Allow null character in regex patterns). (cmb)

- Standard:
. Deprecated utf8_encode() and utf8_decode(). (Rowan Tommins)

- Streams:
. Discard poll calls on socket when no timeout/non blocking/MSG_DONTWAIT. (Max Kellermann)

Release php-8.2.0alpha2 · php/php-src