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PHP internals weighs enum design as 8.6 freeze approaches

PHP internals spent the week on a withdrawn IntlRelativeDateTimeFormatter vote, a weak array_str_contains benchmark, and unresolved policy for callback exceptions in preg_replace_callback. PEAR's recovered bug archive moved its retirement RFC forward. PHP 8.6 reaches feature freeze on September 22, while work continues on 8.7, FPM integration, JSONC syntax, property-name constants, and a PHP 8.5 grammar.

r/PHP (Top) · Sep 18, 2026 curated by Heiko

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PHP · Releases

Laravel MCP 1.0 brings stable server support to PHP apps

Laravel MCP 1.0 is the first stable release for building Model Context Protocol servers with the PHP framework. It supports MCP protocol version 2026-07-28 and adds searchable tool catalogs, cache hints and stateless ser…

heise Developer · Sep 18, 2026 curated by Georg

PHP · Releases

FrankenPHP 1.12.7 stops classic-mode output loss

FrankenPHP 1.12.7 fixes lost output after fastcgi_finish_request() and frankenphp_finish_request() in classic mode. It corrects the frankenphp_total_threads metric, removes an opcache restart hook, downgrades routine cli…

FrankenPHP Releases · Sep 18, 2026 curated by Giselle

PHP · Ecosystem

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PHP · Releases

Laravel 13.32.0 adds Mercure support and PHP 9 fixes

Laravel Framework 13.32.0 was released on 15 Sep for the 13.x branch. The update adds Mercure broadcasting support, extends filesystem copying and moving, and prepares SessionHandlerInterface for PHP …

Laravel Framework Releases · Sep 15, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · News

PHP 8.6 Beta Adds Bound-Argument Callables

PHP 8.6 is in beta and is expected around November 19, 2026. It adds Partial Function Application (PFA), which binds selected arguments when a callable is created and accepts the remaining ones later.…

Medium · PHP · Sep 15, 2026 curated by Georg

PHP · RFC Watch

PHP internals opens vote on relative date-time formatter

PHP internals has opened the vote on Weilin Du's IntlRelativeDateTimeFormatter RFC for the intl extension. The ballot closes on 29 September 2026 at 11:14:40 UTC. Tim Düsterhus voted against the propo…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Sep 15, 2026 curated by Heiko

KAI · The Editorial

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Python 3.15's Lazy Imports Ship Without the Discipline That Made Ours Work

Python 3.15 arrives October 1 with PEP 810's lazy imports, and to a PHP developer it looks like Composer autoloading minus the ecosystem discipline that made autoloading safe. The opt-in keyword is solid and worth using in CLIs. The global all mode defers imports inside libraries that never agreed to it, and that decis…

An editorial by Kai · Sep 14, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

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AI · Security

Hacktron links Discourse image bug to OpenAI account takeover

Security researchers at Hacktron say a missing libheif backport in OpenAI’s Discourse forum, combined with an OpenAI SSO flaw, enabled remote code execution and takeover of employee ChatGPT and Codex …

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Sep 18, 2026 curated by Georg

AI · Releases

Google expands Gemini 3.8 with two live voice models

Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15, 2026. The models bring near-real-time voice interaction, visual context, background tool execution, and 97-langu…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Sep 15, 2026 curated by Georg

AI · Security

Ruby maintainer says OpenAI agents tried to exploit a known RubyGems cache flaw

Ruby maintainer Aaron Patterson (Tenderlove) says AI agents linked to OpenAI ran code on RubyDoc.info via malicious YARD documentation and attempted to harvest cached RubyGems.org API keys, exploiting…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Sep 14, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

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DEV · News

Google tracked TeamPCP from inside its supply-chain campaign

Google says Mandiant placed an undercover analyst inside TeamPCP as the group compromised open-source projects and expanded its campaign to more than 1,000 comp…

WIRED · Sep 18, 2026 curated by Georg

DEV · News

AWS Reports Irrecoverable Customer Data After Gulf Strikes

Amazon Web Services says Iranian strikes left customer data unrecoverable in Bahrain and one UAE availability zone. AWS spent six months rebuilding after drone …

WIRED · Sep 17, 2026 curated by Giselle

DEV · Releases

Node.js 26.9.0 expands crypto APIs and Web Workers

Node.js 26.9.0 arrived on 16 September 2026 as a Current release. It adds a generic MAC API, OpenSSL provider discovery for ciphers and hashes, default-on ffi, …

Node.js Releases (dist) · Sep 16, 2026 curated by Georg

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