Sponsoring PHP Internals

This is the list of RFCs that were passed for PHP 8, the authors involved with them, and links to their sponsors page.

PHP 8.1

Person	Sponsor links	Work items
Aaron Piotrowski	Github	Fibres
David Gebler		fsync() Function
Kamil Tekiela aka Dharman		Change Default mysqli Error Mode Add fetch_column method to mysqli Mysqli bind in execute Deprecate autovivification on false
George Peter Banyard	Github	Explicit octal integer literal notation Pure intersection types Deprecate implicit non-integer-compatible float to int conversions
Ilija Tovilo	Github	Enumerations
Joe Watkins aka Krakjoe	Github	is_Literal Partial Function Application First-class callable syntax
Larry Garfield	Github	Enumerations Pipe Operator v2
Levi Morrison		Partial Function Application
Marco Pivetta aka Ocramius	Github	Make reflection setAccessible() no-op
Matt Brown		noreturn type
Máté Kocsis		Add return type declarations for internal methods Is_Literal
deltragon/Mel Dafert		Add IntlDatePatternGenerator
Nikita Popov		Deprecate passing null to non-nullable arguments of internal functions Array unpacking with string keys Restrict $GLOBALS usage Phasing out Serializable Static variables in inherited methods Readonly properties 2.0 First-class callable syntax
Ondřej Mirtes	Github	noreturn type
Paul Crovella		Partial Function Application
Tyson Andre		Add array_is_list(array $array): bool

PHP 8.0

Person	Sponsor links	Work items
AllenJB		Change Default PDO Error Mode
Benjamin Eberlei		Implement new DOM Living Standard APIs in ext/dom Attributes v2 Attribute Amendments Shorter Attribute Syntax Change
Christoph M. Becker		Unbundle ext/xmlrpc
Danack	Github	Mixed Type v2
Derick Rethans	Github	Shorter Attribute Syntax Change
Dmitry Stogov		JIT
Eliot Lear		Add CMS Support
Gabriel Caruso	Github	Ensure correct signatures of magic methods PHP 8 Release Manager
George Peter Banyard	Github	Locale-independent float to string cast Saner numeric strings
Ilija Tovilo	Github	throw expression Match expression v2 Nullsafe operator
Mark Randall		get_debug_type
Martin Schröder		Attributes v2 Shorter Attribute Syntax
Máté Kocsis		Locale-independent float to string cast Mixed Type v2
Max Semenik		non-capturing catches
Nicolas Grekas		Add Stringable interface
Nikita Popov		Weak maps Consistent type errors for internal functions Always generate fatal error for incompatible method signatures Union Types 2.0 Variable Syntax Tweaks Static return type Allow ::class on objects Validation for abstract trait methods Object-based token_get_all() alternative Allow trailing comma in parameter list Stricter type checks for arithmetic/bitwise operators https://wiki.php.net/rfc/constructor_promotion Make sorting stable Saner string to number comparisons Treat namespaced names as single token Named Arguments Reclassifying engine warnings
Pedro Magalhães		Arrays starting with a negative index Remove inappropriate inheritance signature checks on private methods
Philipp Tanlak		str_contains
Sara Golemon	Github	PHP 8 Release Manager
Theodore Brown		Shorter Attribute Syntax
Thomas Weinert		Implement new DOM Living Standard APIs in ext/dom
Tyson Andre		Always available JSON extension Configurable string length in getTraceAsString() Allow trailing comma in closure use lists Don't automatically unserialize Phar metadata outside getMetadata()
Will Hudgins		Add str_starts_with() and str_ends_with() functions
Zeev Suraski		JIT