PHP 8.5 Now Available on All Hosting Plans

Posted By: Tony Baird

Last Updated: Thursday January 8, 2026

We’re happy to announce we now officially support PHP 8.5 on all our cloud shared, reseller and semi-dedicated plans. PHP 8.5 is the latest 8.x series release with many outstanding improvements and new features.

You can switch to PHP 8.5 using our PHP Selector interface, which allows you to change PHP versions and modify extensions and PHP.ini values. Many applications are currently incompatible, but we allow you to switch to an older version easily with a quick button click.

Now, let’s take a quick look at a few of the many new features available in PHP 8.5

URI Extensions

Before PHP 8.5:

$components = parse_url('https://php.net/releases/8.4/en.php');

var_dump($components['host']);
// string(7) "php.net"

PHP 8.5:

use Uri\Rfc3986\Uri;

$uri = new Uri('https://php.net/releases/8.5/en.php');

var_dump($uri->getHost());
// string(7) "php.net"

It now means you can securely parse and validate URIs with ease.

Pipe Operator

Before PHP 8.5:

$title = ' PHP 8.5 Released ';

$slug = strtolower(
    str_replace('.', '',
        str_replace(' ', '-',
            trim($title)
        )
    )
);

var_dump($slug);
// string(15) "php-85-released"

PHP 8.5:

$title = ' PHP 8.5 Released ';

$slug = $title
    |> trim(...)
    |> (fn($str) => str_replace(' ', '-', $str))
    |> (fn($str) => str_replace('.', '', $str))
    |> strtolower(...);

var_dump($slug);
// string(15) "php-85-released"

These are just a few of the new features available in PHP 8.5. The complete list of changes is on the PHP 8.5 release page.

If PHP is not your language of choice, do not worry. We are also continually adding new versions of Python, Node.js, and Ruby. These can be selected using their respective application interfaces. As of December 2023, we support the following for PHP, Python, Node.js, and Ruby versions: