Jakub Zelenka has announced the release of the third alpha version of PHP 8.3.0 for testing.

php-8.3.0alpha3

- Core:
. Fixed bug GH-11507 (String concatenation performance regression in 8.3).
(nielsdos)
. Fixed oss-fuzz #60011 (Mis-compilation of by-reference nullsafe operator).
(ilutov)
. Fixed GH-11488 (Missing "Optional parameter before required" deprecation on
union null type). (ilutov)
. Implement the #[\Override] attribute RFC. (timwolla)

- DOM:
. Fixed bug GH-11500 (Namespace reuse in createElementNS() generates wrong
output). (nielsdos)
. Implemented DOMDocument::adoptNode(). Previously this always threw a
"not yet implemented" exception. (nielsdos)
. Fixed bug GH-9628 (Implicitly removing nodes from \DOMDocument breaks
existing references). (nielsdos)

- Fileinfo:
. Fix GH-11408 (Unable to build PHP 8.3.0 alpha 1 / fileinfo extension).
(nielsdos)

- MBString:
. Implement mb_str_pad() RFC. (nielsdos)
. Fixed bug GH-11514 (PHP 8.3 build fails with --enable-mbstring enabled).
(nielsdos)

- Session:
. Fixed bug GH-11529 (Crash after dealing with an Apache request). (nielsdos)

- Standard:
. Fix serialization of RC1 objects appearing in object graph twice. (ilutov)

- XMLReader:
. Fix GH-11548 (Argument corruption when calling XMLReader::open or
XMLReader::XML non-statically with observer active). (Bob)

- zip:
. zip extension version 1.22.0 for libzip 1.10.0. (Remi)
. add new error macros (ER_DATA_LENGTH and ER_NOT_ALLOWED). (Remi)
. add new archive global flags (ER_AFL_*). (Remi)
. add ZipArchive::setArchiveFlag and ZipArchive::getArchiveFlag methods.
(Remi)

Release php-8.3.0alpha3 · php/php-src