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Fedora 44 PHP 8.5.6 Critical Fixes Multiple Bugs 2026-c66eaae759

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
PHP 8.5.6 update fixes multiple issues including critical glitches and enhances performance.
PHP version 8.5.6 (07 May 2026) Core: Fixed bug GH-19983 (GC assertion failure with fibers, generators and destructors)

Summary

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it

easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP also

offers built-in database integration for several commercial and

non-commercial database management systems, so writing a

database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common

use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.

Update Information:

PHP version 8.5.6 (07 May 2026) Core: Fixed bug GH-19983 (GC assertion failure with fibers, generators and destructors). (iliaal) Fixed ZEND_API mismatch on zend_ce_closure forward decl for Windows+Clang. (henderkes) Fixed bug GH-21504 (Incorrect RC-handling for ZEND_EXT_STMT op1). (ilutov) Fixed bug GH-21478 (Forward property operations to real instance for initialized lazy proxies). (iliaal) Fixed bug GH-21605 (Missing addref for Countable::count()). (ilutov) Fixed bug GH-21699 (Assertion failure in shutdown_executor when resolving self::/parent::/static:: callables if the error handler throws). (macoaure) Fixed bug GH-21603 (Missing addref for __unset). (ilutov) Fixed bug GH-21760 (Trait with class constant name conflict against enum case causes SEGV). (Pratik Bhujel) CLI: Fixed bug GH-21754 (--rf command line option with a method triggers ext/reflection deprecation warnings). (DanielEScherzer) Curl: Add support for brotli and zstd on Windows. (Shivam Mathur) ...

Change Log

* Wed May 6 2026 Remi Collet - 8.5.6-1 - Update to 8.5.6 - http://www.php.net/releases/8_5_6.php

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-c66eaae759 2026-05-11 00:51:04.698782+00:00 Name : php Product : Fedora 44 Version : 8.5.6 Release : 1.fc44 URL : http://www.php.net/ Summary : PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites Description : PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP also offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-c66eaae759' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: php
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 8.5.6
Release: 1.fc44
Summary: PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites

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