PHP: PHP 8.5 Release Announcement

PHP 8.5 introduces several major features including a built-in URI extension for parsing and handling URLs according to RFC 3986 and WHATWG standards, a pipe operator (|>) for chaining function calls left-to-right, and support for modifying properties during object cloning with the clone() function. The release also adds the #[\NoDiscard] attribute to warn when return values are unused, enables static closures in constant expressions, and introduces persistent cURL share handles. Additional improvements include new array_first() and array_last() functions, DOM methods, and various deprecations of legacy syntax in favor of modern alternatives.