diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 47bf820d6b64c..bef0ac90460a0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
 
 - Fileinfo:
   . Upgrade to file 5.46. (nielsdos)
+  . Change return type of finfo_close() to true. (timwolla)
 
 - FPM:
   . Fixed GH-17645 (FPM with httpd ProxyPass does not decode script path).
diff --git a/UPGRADING b/UPGRADING
index 6b6c555adcf73..36be5313ab6c5 100644
--- a/UPGRADING
+++ b/UPGRADING
@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ PHP 8.5 UPGRADE NOTES
 
 - Fileinfo:
   . Upgraded to file 5.46.
+  . The return type of finfo_close() has been changed to true, rather
+    than bool.
+
 
 - PCRE:
   . Upgraded to pcre2lib from 10.44 to 10.45.
diff --git a/ext/fileinfo/fileinfo.stub.php b/ext/fileinfo/fileinfo.stub.php
index 6fc2cc4c7b4e5..2dba0fe2659ef 100644
--- a/ext/fileinfo/fileinfo.stub.php
+++ b/ext/fileinfo/fileinfo.stub.php
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public function set_flags(int $flags): true {}
 /** @refcount 1 */
 function finfo_open(int $flags = FILEINFO_NONE, ?string $magic_database = null): finfo|false {}
 
-function finfo_close(finfo $finfo): bool {}
+function finfo_close(finfo $finfo): true {}
 
 function finfo_set_flags(finfo $finfo, int $flags): true {}
 
diff --git a/ext/fileinfo/fileinfo_arginfo.h b/ext/fileinfo/fileinfo_arginfo.h
index 36b9351ea1387..024e7d4b6bd59 100644
--- a/ext/fileinfo/fileinfo_arginfo.h
+++ b/ext/fileinfo/fileinfo_arginfo.h
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 /* This is a generated file, edit the .stub.php file instead.
- * Stub hash: 96d78126bc5af37c5d94fa160e509623e947de48 */
+ * Stub hash: d5bc322159e4af87077c07ddaca0a77803b4743a */
 
 ZEND_BEGIN_ARG_WITH_RETURN_OBJ_TYPE_MASK_EX(arginfo_finfo_open, 0, 0, finfo, MAY_BE_FALSE)
 	ZEND_ARG_TYPE_INFO_WITH_DEFAULT_VALUE(0, flags, IS_LONG, 0, "FILEINFO_NONE")
 	ZEND_ARG_TYPE_INFO_WITH_DEFAULT_VALUE(0, magic_database, IS_STRING, 1, "null")
 ZEND_END_ARG_INFO()
 
-ZEND_BEGIN_ARG_WITH_RETURN_TYPE_INFO_EX(arginfo_finfo_close, 0, 1, _IS_BOOL, 0)
+ZEND_BEGIN_ARG_WITH_RETURN_TYPE_INFO_EX(arginfo_finfo_close, 0, 1, IS_TRUE, 0)
 	ZEND_ARG_OBJ_INFO(0, finfo, finfo, 0)
 ZEND_END_ARG_INFO()