Commit 5726e53b39b for php.net

commit 5726e53b39be1eaff4867a0289fd277d90c11e38
Author: Calvin Buckley <calvinb@php.net>
Date:   Tue Dec 30 13:07:11 2025 -0400

    PHP 8.4 is now for PHP 8.4.18-dev

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dc14c520d57..65f7465c8e3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 PHP                                                                        NEWS
 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
-?? ??? ????, PHP 8.4.17
+?? ??? ????, PHP 8.4.18
+
+
+
+15 Jan 2026, PHP 8.4.17

 - Core:
   . Fix OSS-Fuzz #465488618 (Wrong assumptions when dumping function signature
diff --git a/Zend/zend.h b/Zend/zend.h
index 5267a4315f2..a3fbdf3c7c2 100644
--- a/Zend/zend.h
+++ b/Zend/zend.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #ifndef ZEND_H
 #define ZEND_H

-#define ZEND_VERSION "4.4.17-dev"
+#define ZEND_VERSION "4.4.18-dev"

 #define ZEND_ENGINE_3

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 38cab6ace89..e339666e91b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ dnl Basic autoconf initialization, generation of config.nice.
 dnl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 AC_PREREQ([2.68])
-AC_INIT([PHP],[8.4.17-dev],[https://github.com/php/php-src/issues],[php],[https://www.php.net])
+AC_INIT([PHP],[8.4.18-dev],[https://github.com/php/php-src/issues],[php],[https://www.php.net])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([main/php_version.h])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build])
 AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER
diff --git a/main/php_version.h b/main/php_version.h
index 03ef1f029d8..a508f5375c4 100644
--- a/main/php_version.h
+++ b/main/php_version.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 /* edit configure.ac to change version number */
 #define PHP_MAJOR_VERSION 8
 #define PHP_MINOR_VERSION 4
-#define PHP_RELEASE_VERSION 17
+#define PHP_RELEASE_VERSION 18
 #define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "-dev"
-#define PHP_VERSION "8.4.17-dev"
-#define PHP_VERSION_ID 80417
+#define PHP_VERSION "8.4.18-dev"
+#define PHP_VERSION_ID 80418