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[skip ci] UPGRADING: add missing RFC links and some more small fixes #23645

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[skip ci] UPGRADING: add missing RFC links
jrfnl Aug 23, 2026
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[skip ci] UPGRADING: fix typo
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[skip ci] UPGRADING: move GMP ValueError change to section 1
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Expand Up @@ -62,10 +62,17 @@ PHP 8.6 UPGRADE NOTES
behavior.

- GMP:
. GMP power and shift operators now throw a ValueError when GMP right operands
are outside the unsigned long range, instead of silently truncating them.
. gmp_fact() now throws a ValueError if $num does not fit into an unsigned
long.
. gmp_pow(), gmp_binomial(), gmp_root() and gmp_rootrem() now throw a
ValueError if their second argument does not fit into an unsigned long.
. The shift (<<, >>) and exponentiation (**) operators on GMP objects now
throw a ValueError when GMP right operands are outside the unsigned long range,
instead of silently truncating them.
. GMP integer string parsing now throws a ValueError for strings containing NUL
bytes, instead of silently truncating them.
. gmp_powm() modulo-by-zero now raises a DivisionByZeroError whose message
includes the function name and argument index ($modulus).

- Intl:
. Passing a non-stringable object as a time zone to Intl APIs that accept
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -270,7 +277,7 @@ PHP 8.6 UPGRADE NOTES
additional locale arguments when $locales is an array now throws an
ArgumentCountError.
. linkinfo() now raises a ValueError when the $path argument is empty.
. pathinfo() now raises a ValueError when an invalid $flag argument value is
. pathinfo() now raises a ValueError when an invalid $flags argument value is
passed.
. scandir() now raises a ValueError when an invalid $sorting_order argument
value is passed.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -670,16 +677,6 @@ PHP 8.6 UPGRADE NOTES
null was never returned. filter_input_array() is unaffected: it still
returns null when the requested superglobal does not exist.

- GMP:
. gmp_fact() now throws a ValueError if $num does not fit into an unsigned
long.
. gmp_pow(), gmp_binomial(), gmp_root() and gmp_rootrem() now throw a
ValueError if their second argument does not fit into an unsigned long.
. The shift (<<, >>) and exponentiation (**) operators on GMP objects now
throw a ValueError if the right operand does not fit into an unsigned long.
. gmp_powm() modulo-by-zero now raises a DivisionByZeroError whose message
includes the function name and argument index ($modulus).

- LDAP:
. ldap_free_result() return type has been narrowed from bool to true. The
function already always returned true.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -857,6 +854,7 @@ PHP 8.6 UPGRADE NOTES
. Io\Poll\HandleAlreadyWatchedException
. Io\Poll\InvalidHandleException
. StreamPollHandle
RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/poll_api

- URI:
. Uri\Rfc3986\UriBuilder and Uri\WhatWg\UrlBuilder
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the function will be displayed. This uses the same infrastructure as stack
traces, so i.e. sensitive parameters will not be displayed, and strings
will be truncated according to zend.exception_string_param_max_len.
RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/display_error_function_args

- Mbstring:
. The mbstring.detect_order INI directive now updates the internal detection
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