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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 opcache restart hook that could trigger recursive restarts. Noisy client-disconnect logging now runs at debug level instead of warn.

FrankenPHP Releases · Aug 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · RFC Watch

Pushback on RFC to Deprecate Fuzzy Type Casts Ahead of PHP 8.6

On the PHP internals list, Robert Chapin objects to the RFC proposing deprecation of fuzzy type casts, warning of a backward compatibility break comparable to the PHP 8.0 equality operator change. He asks that the stalle…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Aug 20, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Laravel 11.56.0 ships as tagged release

Taylor Otwell tagged Laravel Framework v11.56.0 on August 20 as commit 3dc2399. The release listing on GitHub carries no changelog notes beyond the version marker, so teams on the 11.x branch should review the compare vi…

Laravel Framework Releases · Aug 20, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

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PHP · Releases

Symfony 8 Drops XML Configuration, YAML Stays the Default

Symfony 8.0, released November 27, 2025, removes the XML configuration loader for services and routes entirely. YAML remains supported and gains JSON schema tooling, while a new array-based PHP format…

Medium · PHP · Aug 19, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Laravel 12.67.0 ships with fixes for validation bypass and Postgres JSON escaping

Laravel 12.67.0 tightens temporary upload URL handling, closes a loose-comparison bypass in validation rules, and escapes single quotes in Postgres JSON paths. It also adds retries for timed-out cloud…

Laravel Framework Releases · Aug 18, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Leaf 5 ships with AI-assistant workflows built into the framework

Leaf PHP framework creator Michael Darko has released Leaf 5, described as the project's largest update yet. It adds self-explaining error screens, token-efficient documentation and a .leaf/CONTEXT.md…

r/PHP (Top) · Aug 17, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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The Editorial

Native lazy objects fixed your stack traces, not your query count

PHP 8.4 moved lazy loading into the engine, so Symfony and Doctrine stopped generating proxy classes. The real payoff is that the object in your debugger is finally the class you wrote. The catch: laziness is now invisible, and an N+1 that used to announce itself with an ugly generated class name looks perfectly normal…

An editorial by Kai · Aug 21, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

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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

AI · Security

Encrypted instructions let Grok bypass guardrails and leak user data

Researchers at Adversa demonstrate a prompt injection against Grok that hides malicious commands in ciphertext. The model decrypts them in its own code sandbox, beyond the reach of safety filters, and…

Ars Technica · Aug 20, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Security

Copilot Leaked Its Own Bypass: Varonis One-Click Attack Exfiltrates Passwords

Varonis researchers coaxed Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise into revealing an undocumented URL parameter, ?autorun=1, that executes prompts without user consent. Combined with ?q=, a single clicked li…

Ars Technica · Aug 18, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

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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

DEV · Releases

TypeScript 7.0.2 Released as Patch Update

Microsoft has published TypeScript 7.0.2, a patch release in the new 7.x major version line. The tag was originally created in the typescript-go repository and …

TypeScript Releases · Aug 20, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Releases

Bun 1.4 ships with Rust rewrite, big Node.js compatibility gains

Bun 1.4 completes the runtime's rewrite from Zig to Rust, adds 1,517 newly passing Node.js test-suite tests, and cuts idle CPU usage by a factor of five. New bu…

Hacker News (Dev, ≥100 P.) · Aug 20, 2026 curated by Sönke

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