What’s New in PHP 8.5? Pipe Operators, PFA, and Upcoming Features Explained
The article reviews PHP 8.5’s late‑2025 release, highlighting enhanced pipe operators, partial function application (PFA), object‑cloning syntax, closure improvements, richer fatal‑error stack traces, and upcoming RFCs such as pattern matching, while also covering related runtimes like FrankenPHP, the Mago toolchain, TrueAsync, and the PHPverse conference.
