Patrick Allaert has announced the release candidate for PHP 8.1.23 for testing.

php-8.1.23RC1

- CLI:
. Fixed bug GH-11716 (cli server crashes on SIGINT when compiled with
ZEND_RC_DEBUG=1). (nielsdos)
. Fixed bug GH-10964 (Improve man page about the built-in server).
(Alexandre Daubois)

- Core:
. Fixed strerror_r detection at configuration time. (Kévin Dunglas)

- Date:
. Fixed bug GH-11416: Crash with DatePeriod when uninitialised objects
are passed in. (Derick)

- DOM:
. Fix DOMEntity field getter bugs. (nielsdos)
. Fix incorrect attribute existence check in DOMElement::setAttributeNodeNS.
(nielsdos)
. Fix DOMCharacterData::replaceWith() with itself. (nielsdos)
. Fix empty argument cases for DOMParentNode methods. (nielsdos)
. Fixed bug GH-11791 (Wrong default value of DOMDocument::xmlStandalone).
(nielsdos)
. Fix json_encode result on DOMDocument. (nielsdos)
. Fix manually calling __construct() on DOM classes. (nielsdos)
. Fixed bug GH-11830 (ParentNode methods should perform their checks
upfront). (nielsdos)
. Fix segfault when DOMParentNode::prepend() is called when the child
disappears. (nielsdos)

- FFI:
. Fix leaking definitions when using FFI::cdef()->new(...). (ilutov)

- MySQLnd:
. Fixed bug GH-11440 (authentication to a sha256_password account fails over
SSL). (nielsdos)
. Fixed bug GH-11438 (mysqlnd fails to authenticate with sha256_password
accounts using passwords longer than 19 characters).
(nielsdos, Kamil Tekiela)
. Fixed bug GH-11550 (MySQL Statement has a empty query result when
the response field has changed, also Segmentation fault).
(Yurunsoft)
. Fixed invalid error message "Malformed packet" when connection is dropped.
(Kamil Tekiela)

- Opcache:
. Fixed bug GH-11715 (opcache.interned_strings_buffer either has no effect or
opcache_get_status() / phpinfo() is wrong). (nielsdos)
. Avoid adding an unnecessary read-lock when loading script from shm if
restart is in progress. (mikhainin)

- PCNTL:
. Revert behaviour of receiving SIGCHLD signals back to the behaviour
before 8.1.22. (nielsdos)

- SPL:
. Fixed bug #81992 (SplFixedArray::setSize() causes use-after-free).
(nielsdos)

- Standard:
. Prevent int overflow on $decimals in number_format. (Marc Bennewitz)
. Fixed bug GH-11870 (Fix off-by-one bug when truncating tempnam prefix)
(athos-ribeiro)

php-8.1.23RC1