Tonight: Atlanta PHP / MergePHP November 2025 Online Meeting

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Nov 13, 2025, 10:06:26 AM (13 days ago) Nov 13

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Announcing a new Meetup for the Atlanta User Group!

When: Thursday, November 13th, 2025 — 7pm-8:30pm

Please RSVP at: https://www.meetup.com/atlantaphp/events/311990464/

MergePHP - PHP 8.5: New Features from the Source

Presentation by Daniel Scherzer

Join us live on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/@MergePHP/streams

Join PHP 8.5 release manager Daniel Scherzer for a deep dive into the new features, syntax updates, deprecations, and surprises coming in the latest version of PHP. These are already available for testing in PHP 8.5.0RC4, and will be ready for production use a week after the MergePHP talk.

Whether you're maintaining legacy apps or building bleeding-edge libraries, this talk will help you prepare for PHP 8.5 and adopt its features with confidence.

Features include:

A new URL handling extension
Expanded syntax support in constant expressions
The pipe operator (|>)
Attribute changes
Object cloning with property changes

and more!

About Daniel: Daniel Scherzer is an open source contributor mainly focused on PHP and its ecosystem. He contributes as @DanielEScherzer on GitHub, and is currently serving as a release manager for PHP 8.5. See https://scherzer.dev/ for more.

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Want to present at MergePHP? Sign up to speak with the link below. Technical talks are appreciated! Please make a note if it's a full-length or shorter lightning talk.
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Previous streams available at: https://www.youtube.com/c/MergePHP
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