PHP 8.5 Release: New Features Including Pipe Operator, Clone With, and URI Parser

PHP 8.5 was released on November 20, 2025. It includes the pipe operator, clone with, a new URI parser, and more.

PHP 8.5 introduces the new pipe operator that makes chaining output from one function to another a lot easier.

Instead of deeply nested function calls... You can now write this: $output = $input |> trim(...) |> (fn (string $string) => str_replace

The pipe operator |> takes the result of the left-hand side and passes it as the first argument to the right-hand side.