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The Dev Dispatch

“Two parsers beat one worm: PHP's security focus outpaces ecosystem chaos.”

PHP · Releases

Symfony releases maintenance update 6.4.47

Symfony released version 6.4.47 on 29 September. The update fixes escaping in generated PHP code and tightens Redis namespace cleanup. Serializer cache keys and YAML parsing also receive fixes, alongside HTTP client and Messenger patches. ErrorHandler now reads the fatal-error backtrace supplied by PHP 8.5.

Symfony Releases · Sep 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · Releases

Laravel tags framework release v11.57.0

Laravel released v11.57.0 of its framework on GitHub. taylorotwell created the tag on 29 September at 15:33. The release page lists no changelog entries. The update confirms the version tag but leaves the code changes un…

Laravel Framework Releases · Sep 29, 2026 curated by Sönke
PHP · RFC Watch

PHP RFC would reject oversized bcrypt passwords

Sjoerd Langkemper has proposed the PHP RFC bcrypt_max_password_length. It would make password_hash() throw ValueError when bcrypt receives input longer than 72 bytes. PHP currently truncates longer input silently, hashin…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Sep 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

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KAI · The Editorial

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The Editorial

PHP 8.5 gives you two URL parsers, and the second one is what makes it safe

PHP 8.5 ships Uri\Rfc3986\Uri and Uri\WhatWg\Url, and the obvious complaint is that one clean class would have been simpler. Kai argues the split is the real fix: most URL bugs come from two components reading the same string differently, and now the language makes you choose which reading you trust. Here is why, and w…

An editorial by Kai · Sep 29, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

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AI · Releases

Anthropic gives Sonnet 5.5 a 30% speed boost

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, its mid-range model for coding and office work. The company reports a 30% speed gain over Sonnet 5 and slower token consumption. Its benchmarks put Sonnet 5.5…

TechCrunch (AI) · Sep 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

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International PHP Conference Munich 2026 — Oct 26, 2026 – Oct 30, 2026 · Munich, Germany

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