The voting results on the RFC page is from 2008 when it was rejected. The recent vote that decided its inclusion was here: https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54/vote

The voting results on the RFC page is from 2008 when it was rejected. The recent vote that decided its inclusion was here: https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54/vote https://wiki.php.net/todo/php54/vote. I think it had pretty solid support from core developers as well as userland people this time around.