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PHP · Releases

Laravel 13.35.0 expands scheduling and Eloquent fixes

Laravel published framework version 13.35.0 on 6 October. The release adds percentage values to queue:work --memory, new scheduling controls, QUERY route support, response markdown() and lazy local-disk root creation. It also ships a broad set of Eloquent, database, filesystem, authentication, queue, caching and testing fixes across the 13.x branch.

Laravel Framework Releases · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · RFC Watch

PHP RFC explores embedding FPM in the php executable

Matthieu Napoli has opened an RFC for --enable-cli-fpm, a build option that embeds FPM in the php executable. The combined binary would select FPM through --fpm as its first argument or through a php-fpm name, with norma…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

PHPStan 2.3.0 cuts WordPress analysis below eight seconds

PHPStan 2.3.0, released on 6 October, fixes 75 issues and delivers a major analysis speedup. The WordPress core benchmark falls from 60 seconds in PHPStan 2.1.33 to under eight seconds. PHPStan Turbo adds another 60% ove…

PHPStan Releases · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

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PHP · News

Symfony 8.2 brings native OIDC, reauthentication and new infrastructure

Symfony 8.2 is scheduled for November 2026 and will require PHP 8.4 or newer. The development branch adds component-owned bundles, recent-authentication checks, native OpenID Connect login, transactio…

Medium · PHP · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

PHP internals opens vote on PEAR endorsement

PHP internals is voting on an RFC titled “End PEAR Project Endorsement.” Nick Sdot opened the vote and linked the RFC’s wiki page and discussion thread. The proposal needs a two-thirds majority to pas…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Oct 5, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Tooling

Mago brings PHP quality checks into one Rust binary

Mago combines PHP formatting, linting, static analysis and architectural checks in one Rust binary. Version 1.51.2 offers 190 lint rules and parallel execution. The project reports a 29-fold speed adv…

Medium · PHP · Oct 5, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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The Editorial

Symfony 8.2 lets you drop framework:, so drop it in the upgrade PR

Symfony 8.2 hands configuration back to the components: 29 new bundles, each with its own config root, and the old framework: keys keep working through aliases. That last part is generous, and it's exactly why I think you shouldn't lean on it. Rewrite your config in the same pull request as the upgrade, while the diff …

An editorial by Kai · Oct 7, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

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AI · Releases

Anthropic ships a cheaper, faster Haiku 5.5

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026, for high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads. The small model adds adjustable effort and beta computer and browser use, and costs 90% less than Hai…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Oct 7, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

GPT‑6 brings interactive interfaces to ChatGPT

OpenAI has started the global rollout of GPT‑6 in ChatGPT, adding Intelligent UI responses that combine text, graphics, controls, forms, charts and generated tools. GPT‑6 also streams answers as it re…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Oct 7, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

EmbeddingGemma 2 targets multimodal vector search

Google’s EmbeddingGemma 2 is presented as a 740M multimodal embedding model. It maps text, images, video and audio into one 768-dimensional space and uses the Apache 2 license. Community tests on MTG …

r/LocalLLaMA (Top) · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

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DEV · Releases

Node.js 26.11.0 expands runtime APIs and platform support

Node.js 26.11.0, released on 7 October 2026 as a Current build, adds Buffer.isLatin1(), Buffer.stringLength(), HTTP header validators, an HTTP/2 connectionWindo…

Node.js Releases (dist) · Oct 7, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Security

DNS hijacks exposed a path to fake Google TLS certificates

Attackers took control of parts of the .gh, .sl and .as country-code domains and used altered DNS data to obtain unauthorized TLS certificates for several Googl…

Ars Technica · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Releases

Git 2.56 makes conflict-resolution staging more precise

Git 2.56 adds git add --resolved for staging only the files whose conflicts have been resolved. Unrelated modifications stay out of the index, reducing accident…

heise Developer · Oct 3, 2026 curated by Sönke

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