From e4b5593ea3f13fd0711716d3faa3f3e4bb3d7f6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Calvin Buckley <calvinb@php.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:35:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Announce PHP 8.4.17

---
 ChangeLog-8.php                  | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 archive/archive.xml              |  1 +
 archive/entries/2026-01-15-1.xml | 21 +++++++++
 include/release-qa.php           | 10 ++---
 include/releases.inc             | 37 ++++++++++++++++
 include/version.inc              | 12 +++---
 releases/8_4_17.php              | 16 +++++++
 7 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 archive/entries/2026-01-15-1.xml
 create mode 100644 releases/8_4_17.php

diff --git a/ChangeLog-8.php b/ChangeLog-8.php
index e0acbcc20..0ddb66d8c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog-8.php
+++ b/ChangeLog-8.php
@@ -599,6 +599,79 @@ changelog_header(8, $MINOR_VERSIONS);
 
 <a id="PHP_8_4"></a>
 
+<section class="version" id="8.4.17"><!-- {{{ 8.4.17 -->
+<h3>Version 8.4.17</h3>
+<b><?php release_date('15-Jan-2026'); ?></b>
+<ul><li>Core:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fix OSS-Fuzz #465488618 (Wrong assumptions when dumping function signature with dynamic class const lookup default argument).</li>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20695); ?> (Assertion failure in normalize_value() when parsing malformed INI input via parse_ini_string()).</li>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20714); ?> (Uncatchable exception thrown in generator).</li>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20352); ?> (UAF in php_output_handler_free via re-entrant ob_start() during error deactivation).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Bz2:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20620); ?> (bzcompress overflow on large source size).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>DOM:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20722); ?> (Null pointer dereference in DOM namespace node cloning via clone on malformed objects).</li>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20444); ?> (Dom\XMLDocument::C14N() seems broken compared to DOMDocument::C14N()).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>GD:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20622); ?> (imagestring/imagestringup overflow).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Intl:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fix leak in umsg_format_helper().</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>LDAP:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fix memory leak in ldap_set_options().</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Mbstring:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20674); ?> (mb_decode_mimeheader does not handle separator).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>PCNTL:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fixed bug with pcntl_getcpuaffinity() on solaris regarding invalid process ids handling.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Phar:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20732); ?> (Phar::LoadPhar undefined behavior when reading fails).</li>
+  <li>Fix SplFileInfo::openFile() in write mode.</li>
+  <li>Fix build on legacy OpenSSL 1.1.0 systems.</li>
+  <li><?php bugfix(74154); ?> (Phar extractTo creates empty files).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>POSIX:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fixed crash on posix groups to php array creation on macos.</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>SPL:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20678); ?> (resource created by GlobIterator crashes with fclose()).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Sqlite3:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20699); ?> (SQLite3Result fetchArray return array|false, null returned).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Standard:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fix error check for proc_open() command.</li>
+  <li>Fix memory leak in mail() when header key is numeric.</li>
+  <li>Fixed bug <?php githubissuel('php/php-src', 20582); ?> (Heap Buffer Overflow in iptcembed).</li>
+</ul></li>
+<li>Zlib:
+<ul>
+  <li>Fix OOB gzseek() causing assertion failure.</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+<!-- }}} --></section>
+
+
+
 <section class="version" id="8.4.16"><!-- {{{ 8.4.16 -->
 <h3>Version 8.4.16</h3>
 <b><?php release_date('18-Dec-2025'); ?></b>
diff --git a/archive/archive.xml b/archive/archive.xml
index 13ed84a48..b80c8ee48 100644
--- a/archive/archive.xml
+++ b/archive/archive.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     <uri>http://php.net/contact</uri>
     <email>php-webmaster@lists.php.net</email>
   </author>
+  <xi:include href="entries/2026-01-15-1.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2025-12-18-5.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2025-12-18-4.xml"/>
   <xi:include href="entries/2025-12-18-3.xml"/>
diff --git a/archive/entries/2026-01-15-1.xml b/archive/entries/2026-01-15-1.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ce7e29bac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archive/entries/2026-01-15-1.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+  <title>PHP 8.4.17 Released!</title>
+  <id>https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-01-15-1</id>
+  <published>2026-01-15T19:32:42+00:00</published>
+  <updated>2026-01-15T19:32:42+00:00</updated>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/index.php#2026-01-15-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+  <link href="https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-01-15-1" rel="via" type="text/html"/>
+  <category term="releases" label="New PHP release"/>
+  <category term="frontpage" label="PHP.net frontpage news"/>
+  <content type="xhtml">
+    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.4.17. This is a bug fix release.</p>
+
+<p>All PHP 8.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.</p>
+
+<p>For source downloads of PHP 8.4.17 please visit our <a href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php">downloads page</a>,
+Windows source and binaries can also be found <a href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php?os=windows&amp;version=8.4">there</a>.
+The list of changes is recorded in the <a href="https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.4.17">ChangeLog</a>.
+</p>    </div>
+  </content>
+</entry>
diff --git a/include/release-qa.php b/include/release-qa.php
index 4d40d01be..8cd6f698e 100644
--- a/include/release-qa.php
+++ b/include/release-qa.php
@@ -75,12 +75,12 @@ $QA_RELEASES = [
         'active'  => true,
         'release' => [
             'type'       => 'RC',
-            'number'     => 1,
-            'sha256_bz2' => '02abfe473ff3aa12a06ac6fedfe896cb8c082c108d46e17a1d9174bb139d2d1b',
-            'sha256_gz'  => 'a3062494dffd9be5be259eb20da6dc248954c5322b681b98b0a5cc93d125808d',
-            'sha256_xz'  => '0d86b6a92d8af1b25671c3abe558d035f26aefb48218fada3757406e1cbf4dd8',
+            'number'     => 0,
+            'sha256_bz2' => '',
+            'sha256_gz'  => '',
+            'sha256_xz'  => '',
             'date'       => '01 Jan 2026',
-            'baseurl'    => 'https://downloads.php.net/~calvinb/',
+            'baseurl'    => 'https://downloads.php.net/',
         ],
     ],
 
diff --git a/include/releases.inc b/include/releases.inc
index 19a97edd4..081567a41 100644
--- a/include/releases.inc
+++ b/include/releases.inc
@@ -2,6 +2,43 @@
 $OLDRELEASES = array (
   8 => 
   array (
+    '8.4.16' => 
+    array (
+      'announcement' => 
+      array (
+        'English' => '/releases/8_4_16.php',
+      ),
+      'tags' => 
+      array (
+        0 => 'security',
+      ),
+      'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
+      'source' => 
+      array (
+        0 => 
+        array (
+          'filename' => 'php-8.4.16.tar.gz',
+          'name' => 'PHP 8.4.16 (tar.gz)',
+          'sha256' => '8e35d24f148ea7c2a93e9b9bcc329e8bf78b5bb922f3723a727c74c19d184e98',
+          'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
+        ),
+        1 => 
+        array (
+          'filename' => 'php-8.4.16.tar.bz2',
+          'name' => 'PHP 8.4.16 (tar.bz2)',
+          'sha256' => '6c48c65eba6a2f7a102925d08772239b1f45110aed2187fdd81b933ed439c692',
+          'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
+        ),
+        2 => 
+        array (
+          'filename' => 'php-8.4.16.tar.xz',
+          'name' => 'PHP 8.4.16 (tar.xz)',
+          'sha256' => 'f66f8f48db34e9e29f7bfd6901178e9cf4a1b163e6e497716dfcb8f88bcfae30',
+          'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
+        ),
+      ),
+      'museum' => false,
+    ),
     '8.1.34' => 
     array (
       'announcement' => 
diff --git a/include/version.inc b/include/version.inc
index 924139a12..d238c4260 100644
--- a/include/version.inc
+++ b/include/version.inc
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ $RELEASES = (function () {
 
     /* PHP 8.4 Release */
     $data['8.4'] = [
-        'version' => '8.4.16',
-        'date' => '18 Dec 2025',
-        'tags' => ['security'], // Set to ['security'] for security releases.
+        'version' => '8.4.17',
+        'date' => '15 Jan 2026',
+        'tags' => [], // Set to ['security'] for security releases.
         'sha256' => [
-            'tar.gz' => '8e35d24f148ea7c2a93e9b9bcc329e8bf78b5bb922f3723a727c74c19d184e98',
-            'tar.bz2' => '6c48c65eba6a2f7a102925d08772239b1f45110aed2187fdd81b933ed439c692',
-            'tar.xz' => 'f66f8f48db34e9e29f7bfd6901178e9cf4a1b163e6e497716dfcb8f88bcfae30',
+            'tar.gz' => 'aa0efeb7b47adff31e10bed1fc4ffcd4c0b5a4d41ab0bacfbb549c584939ee90',
+            'tar.bz2' => 'ea67d83d72dd6f3abaaeae7f532f78fd12192861d96aba8e9eca3b2ddade42d2',
+            'tar.xz' => '28b234e347286158cae921d61283eb1169d89bc9d2e5f5976567260ff38b0bfa',
         ]
     ];
 
diff --git a/releases/8_4_17.php b/releases/8_4_17.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f57189ccc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/8_4_17.php
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?php
+$_SERVER['BASE_PAGE'] = 'releases/8_4_17.php';
+include_once __DIR__ . '/../include/prepend.inc';
+site_header('PHP 8.4.17 Release Announcement');
+?>
+<h1>PHP 8.4.17 Release Announcement</h1>
+
+<p>The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.4.17. This is a bug fix release.</p>
+
+<p>All PHP 8.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.</p>
+
+<p>For source downloads of PHP 8.4.17 please visit our <a href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php">downloads page</a>,
+Windows source and binaries can also be found <a href="https://www.php.net/downloads.php?os=windows&amp;version=8.4">there</a>.
+The list of changes is recorded in the <a href="https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.4.17">ChangeLog</a>.
+</p>
+<?php site_footer();