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    PHP.net Analytics Collection

    Author
    Author
    Roman Pronskiy
    Target
    policy
    The PHP.net website is a critical resource for PHP developers worldwide, providing documentation, news, and updates about the PHP language. It has millions of ...

    Approve using Matomo for analytics?

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    23 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Policy on 3rd party code

    Author
    Target
    policy
    The PHP project has had a long-standing but unwritten, vague, and inconsistently-applied proscription against mentioning or using third-party PHP projects, on t...

    Accept this policy proposal?

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    24 Votes (96%)
    No
    1 Votes (4%)

    LDAP EXOP

    Author
    Target
    7.2
    LDAP is a broad-use standard for storing information in a tree-style manner and access it efficiently. It is especially famous for storing user accounts. EXOP a...

    Improved SSL / TLS constants

    Author
    Niklas Keller
    Target
    7.2
    This RFC proposes to change PHP's TLS constants to sane values. This change has been avoided by the previous RFC for PHP 5.6 due to BC reasons. This RFCs favors...

    Improved SSL / TLS constants

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    14 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Removal of dead or not yet PHP7 ported SAPIs and extensions

    Author
    ab
    Target
    7.0
    Currently PHP contains many SAPIs to the servers either completely unavailable or unsupported for a long time. The same can be said about several extensions whi...

    Remove sapi/aolserver from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    31 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/apache from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    32 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/apache_hooks from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    31 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/apache2filter from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    23 Votes (96%)
    No
    1 Votes (4%)

    Remove sapi/caudium from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    30 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/continuity from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    28 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/isapi from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    28 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/milter from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    10 Votes (53%)
    No
    9 Votes (47%)

    Remove sapi/phttpd from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    26 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/pi3web from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    24 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/roxen from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    23 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/thttpd from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    25 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/tux from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    25 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove sapi/webjames from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    25 Votes (100%)
    No
    0 Votes (0%)

    Remove ext/imap from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    14 Votes (42%)
    No
    19 Votes (58%)

    Remove ext/mcrypt from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    15 Votes (45%)
    No
    18 Votes (55%)

    Remove ext/mssql from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    17 Votes (85%)
    No
    3 Votes (15%)

    Remove ext/pdo_dblib from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    4 Votes (18%)
    No
    18 Votes (82%)

    Remove ext/sybase_ct from the core

    Yes
    No
    Yes
    17 Votes (94%)
    No
    1 Votes (6%)

    Strict Sessions

    Author
    Yasuo Ohgaki
    Target
    5.5
    Session management safety is core of web application security. However, PHP's Session module is known to vulnerable to session adoption that enables session fi...

    Allow multiple simultaneous syslog connections

    Author
    fat
    Target
    5.4
    This patch allows users to use multiple simultaneous syslog connections.

    Alternative to include/require for autoloaders

    Author
    Lukas Smith
    Target
    5.3
    Currently many autoloaders require the use of inefficient and in extreme cases even error prone hacks to be able to handle syntax errors differently than missin...

    Integrating BLAKE3 into PHP

    TL;DR: Essentially, BLAKE3 provides SHA3-256level security at considerably higher throughput.

    Unknown RFC

    Target
    policy
    This has been discussed a few times, with mixed results, so here is a proposal that deals with Magical Quotes starting with PHP 5.3.0. The purpose of this RFC i...

    Unknown RFC

    Target
    policy