Meetup #2. November 20th, 2025: PHP 8.5 release party 🎉

Welcome to the second meetup of RotterdamPHP! Well, after our aborted previous attempt we'll call this one 2.1, but we're on again! 🎉 We're welcoming you again to a PHP party in the heart of Rotterdam. Tonight, we're celebrating the release of PHP 8.5 into General Availability, which is planned for November 20th (aka: today)!

Schedule

18:00 - Doors open
18:30 - Food
19:00 - Introduction
19:15 - Talk
20:30 - Social

Location & access

We're hosted by Last Mile Solutions, near the Erasmus Bridge, downtown Rotterdam.

Zeemansstraat 11 3016 CN Rotterdam

Subway: Leuvehaven (line D and E) Tram: Rotterdam Vasteland (tram 8)

Talk

Speaker: Derick Rethans
Talk: Everything new with PHP 8.5 Outline: During this presentation, we are going to look at the new features that were introduced in PHP 8.5, and some in earlier versions. Join me to have a look the shiny new pipe operator, new attributes and native functions, and other smaller features and clean-ups.

At the end you will have a good understanding about all the new and exciting features that are part of the PHP 8.5 release.