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PHP · Releases

PHP 8.6.0beta2 ready for testing

The PHP project has tagged PHP 8.6.0beta2 — a pre-release of the upcoming 8.6 branch with 40 changelog entries across 19 components.

php.net Releases · Aug 27, 2026

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PHP · Releases

Laravel tags v11.56.1 release

Taylor Otwell tagged the v11.56.1 release of the laravel/framework GitHub repository on 25 August. The tag points to commit d5a6525, labeled "version". The release page lists no further changelog details.

Laravel Framework Releases · Aug 25, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · News

PHP 8.6 Beta 1 sparks community debate on favorite upcoming features

With PHP 8.6.0 Beta 1 now available, a r/PHP thread asks developers which changes they are most eager to use in production once the stable release ships. The discussion reflects broader confidence in PHP's steady, pragma…

r/PHP (Top) · Aug 23, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

frameworks, tooling & runtime all articles →

PHP · Releases

Symfony 6.4.44 released with dozens of bug fixes

Symfony has published the maintenance release 6.4.44. The update fixes bugs across nearly all components, including Serializer, Security, Messenger, Form, HttpKernel and DependencyInjection, plus upda…

Symfony Releases · Aug 22, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

PHP Internals Week in Review: Array Slice Debate, JSONC Flags, and 8.6 Beta 1

The weekly PHP internals recap covers 12 threads: a new array_search_range() proposal met a counter-proposal for lazy array slices, ini_get_all() case sensitivity sparked a withdrawn PR, JSON comment …

r/PHP (Top) · Aug 22, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

FrankenPHP 1.12.7 Fixes Discarded Output After fastcgi_finish_request()

FrankenPHP 1.12.7 is out with a fix for classic mode, where output written after fastcgi_finish_request() was silently discarded. The patch release also corrects the thread-count metric and removes an…

FrankenPHP Releases · Aug 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

SELinuxMount is the right call, and the pods it breaks were on borrowed time

Kubernetes v1.37 ships today with SELinuxMount on by default. If your nodes run SELinux enforcing and two differently-labeled pods share a PVC, one of them stops starting. I think you should upgrade into that break rather than reach for the per-workload opt-out, and I'll argue it out, including the part where the detec…

An editorial by Kai · Aug 26, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

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AI · Security

OpenAI details how a test model breached Hugging Face in official incident report

OpenAI has published its official report on the Hugging Face breach, detailing how a model in the ExploitGym evaluation chained undiscovered exploits, compromised Artifactory, and spread across OpenAI…

TechCrunch (AI) · Aug 26, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

OpenAI Codex CLI 0.150.0 adds task mentions and interrupt hooks

OpenAI has released Codex 0.150.0 (rust-v0.150.0). The CLI agent now supports @ mentions to reference other Codex tasks, a /copy picker for responses and code blocks, automatic thread titles, clickabl…

OpenAI Codex Releases · Aug 26, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

DeepSeek Adds Image Input With deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp

DeepSeek has released deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp, a multimodal model that accepts images alongside text through its OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs. Images arrive via base64, external URL or t…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Aug 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

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DEV · Releases

Node.js 24.20.0 LTS 'Krypton' lands with AsyncLocalStorage scopes and package maps

Node.js 24.20.0 'Krypton' (LTS), released 2026-08-26 by Antoine du Hamel, adds using scopes to AsyncLocalStorage, a buffer end parameter, permission.drop, a --p…

Node.js Releases (dist) · Aug 26, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Releases

Node.js 26.8.0 released

The Node.js project has published version 26.8.0 of its JavaScript runtime. The release is part of the current 26.x line and is available for download from the …

Node.js Releases (dist) · Aug 25, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · News

GitHub blames seven-hour August 17 outage on capacity limits amid AI-driven traffic surge

GitHub's August 17 outage lasted seven hours and 47 minutes and hit authentication, repositories, pull requests and Copilot. CTO Vlad Fedorov's postmortem blame…

Next (FR) · Aug 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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

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JOBS · PHP Jobs

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Network Infrastructure Engineer HOUSE OF RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS BV · Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
Analista II - Automação de Processos Sistema Indústria - CNI SESI SENAI IEL - Departamento Nacional · Brasília, Distrito Federal
PHP-Softwareentwickler (m/w/d) (Fachinformatiker/in - Anwendungsentwicklung) Akkodis Germany Tech Experts GmbH · Augsburg