PHP 8.5 was released on November 20th. Contributors to WordPress have been busy in recent months preparing for this version and we’re happy to report that all issues reported against PHP 8.5 have been addressed in WordPress 6.9 RC2. Compared to previous PHP releases relatively few changes were required, mostly to address new deprecations and warnings. Take a look at the PHP 8.5 support tracking ticket if you’re interested.
Due to the acknowledgement that WordPress is rarely used in isolation (without any theme or plugins), support is labelled as “beta support” until at least 10% of all WordPress sites
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