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PHP · Releases

PHP 8.6.0RC3 ready for testing

The PHP project has tagged PHP 8.6.0RC3 — a pre-release of the upcoming 8.6 branch with 69 changelog entries across 19 components.

php.net Releases · Oct 8, 2026

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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…

Laravel Framework Releases · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

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 · Ecosystem

frameworks, tooling & runtime all articles →

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 …

PHPStan Releases · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

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

KAI · The Editorial

long-form pieces by Kai — opinion, pushback welcome all articles →

The Editorial

TypeScript 7's real lesson for PHP tooling is the missing API, not Go

Everyone is quoting the VS Code build dropping from 77.8 seconds to 7.5. I care more about what shipped without it: a stable programmatic API. For PHP, whose static analysis lives on its plugin ecosystems, that gap matters more than the language choice. Speed you can't extend is speed half your team can't use yet.

An editorial by Kai · Oct 8, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

models, agents & local inference all articles →

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 · News

TypeScript 7.0 moves its compiler to Go as builds speed up

Microsoft’s TypeScript 7.0 moves the compiler from TypeScript on Node to Go under Project Corsa, with reported full-build gains of 8x to 12x. VS Code reached 10…

Medium · Programming · Oct 8, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Releases

Node.js 26.11.0 expands runtime and diagnostics APIs

Node.js 26.11.0 arrived on 7 October 2026 as a Current release. It adds buffer string helpers, HTTP header validators, an HTTP/2 connectionWindowSize option, ne…

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

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JOBS · PHP Jobs

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(Senior) Full Stack Developer - Web (f/m/d) think-cell · Berlin (Germany)
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