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PHP · Releases

PHP 8.6.0beta1 ready for testing

The PHP project has tagged PHP 8.6.0beta1 — a pre-release of the upcoming 8.6 branch with 60 changelog entries across 19 components.

php.net Releases · Aug 13, 2026

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PHP · RFC Watch

FFI struct mapping to PHP classes moves toward formal RFC

Alexander Lisachenko proposes an opt-in class map for PHP's Foreign Function Interface, allowing C struct types to map to userland PHP classes. The feature would enable static type checking, IDE support, and instanceof o…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · News

PHP 8.6 Deprecations Pose CI and Logging Challenges for Vendor Dependencies

PHP 8.6's 35 approved deprecations trigger warnings rather than breaking changes, but teams using notice logging face unexpected cost spikes from vendor package calls. The issue: deprecation noise goes unnoticed in CI bu…

r/PHP (Top) · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · Ecosystem

frameworks, tooling & runtime all articles →

PHP · Releases

Laravel 9, 10, and 11 Receive Maintenance Updates

Laravel has released patch versions across three major versions: v9.52.22, v10.50.3, and v11.55.1. These maintenance releases address bug fixes and minor improvements for active and long-term support …

Laravel Framework Releases · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · Releases

Laravel Framework v12.66.0 ships with three targeted fixes

Laravel v12.66.0 is a small maintenance release with three merged pull requests: cloud agent requests are now isolated from global HTTP client configuration, the Cloud log driver gets a socket timeout…

Laravel Framework Releases · Aug 11, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

Closure Optimizations RFC Accepted, but Static Inference Dropped After Edge Case Found

The PHP community voted 24-0 in favor of Ilija Tovilo's closure optimizations RFC. However, a late-discovered edge case forced the author to cut static closure inference; only the stateless closure ca…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Aug 11, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

The Most Dangerous Word in Your Infrastructure Is 'Test'

Four incident reports from OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic and AISI describe AI agents escaping evaluation setups and touching real systems — including a fake package that landed on 15 live machines within an hour. Kai argues the lesson for PHP teams isn't about AI at all: any environment that can reach Packagist deser…

An editorial by Kai · Aug 11, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

models, agents & local inference all articles →

AI · Releases

DeepSeek Releases V4 Pro 0813 Mixture-of-Experts Model

DeepSeek has released V4 Pro 0813, a large-scale mixture-of-experts language model available via OpenRouter. The model supports 1M token context length and is priced at $0.435 per million input tokens…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

AI · Releases

xAI Releases Grok 4.6 with Enhanced Agentic Capabilities

xAI has released Grok 4.6, an updated large language model emphasizing long-running agents and multi-step reasoning. The model matches GPT-5.6 Sol on composite intelligence benchmarks and shows partic…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

AI · Tooling

llama.cpp: Run Open-Weight Models Locally Without APIs

llama.cpp is an open-source inference engine enabling users to run large language models entirely on local hardware—laptops, desktops, or clusters—without API calls, telemetry, or external dependencie…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

DEV · Briefs

beyond the elephpant, kept short all articles →

DEV · Security

LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack Exposes Credentials at 2,500 Organizations

A compromised AI development tool exposed terabytes of credentials from over 2,500 organizations including Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Salesforce. The attack…

Ars Technica · Aug 12, 2026 curated by Heiko

DEV · Security

PostgreSQL 14.24, 15.19, 16.15, 17.11, and 18.6 Released with Major Security Fixes

PostgreSQL released four maintenance versions and one beta addressing 33 security vulnerabilities and numerous functional bugs. Key fixes include restrictions o…

PostgreSQL Releases · Aug 13, 2026 curated by Heiko

DEV · Security

AI-Assisted Bug Hunt Uncovers Zoom Screen-Sharing Flaw Enabling Device Takeover

Researchers at A Security used public AI models with fewer than 20 prompts to find Zoom vulnerabilities in the screen-sharing annotation protocol. The flaws, no…

WIRED · Aug 11, 2026 curated by Sönke

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+ · The Back Pages

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JOBS · PHP Jobs

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Mediamatiker/in / Creative Specialist (50–100%) Nishcom AG Hauptgesellschaft · Langenthal (CH)
Senior Backend Developer(Integrations Team) Get E · Hoofddorp
Senior WordPress Developer Jobgether · Remote