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PHP · Releases

brick/math library hits stable 1.0.0 after a decade of development

The arbitrary-precision arithmetic library brick/math has reached version 1.0.0, following more than ten years of work, 804 commits, 79 beta releases and over 590 million downloads. It provides BigInteger, BigDecimal and BigRational classes and is a dependency of Laravel and ramsey/uuid. Future breaking changes now require a new major version under semantic versioning.

r/PHP (Top) · Sep 12, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · Tooling

Rust tool vivace 0.4.0 replicates Composer's update resolver byte for byte

vivace 0.4.0 adds a Rust port of composer update, matching Composer 2.10.3's resolver logic including pool builder, CDCL solver and lock writer, so it produces identical composer.lock and vendor/ output on test projects …

r/PHP (Top) · Sep 12, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Tooling

vivace: Rust-based composer install clone, 5-16x faster, byte-identical vendor output

vivace is a Rust reimplementation of composer install that produces a byte-for-byte identical vendor directory compared to Composer 2.10. It runs 5 to 16 times faster across the benchmarked operations. It requires an exi…

r/PHP (Top) · Sep 10, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

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PHP · RFC Watch

PHP Internals Week: PREG_THROW_ON_ERROR Vote Pulled, PEAR Sunset Moves Forward

Osama Aldemeery withdrew the PREG_THROW_ON_ERROR vote after 56 hours following a policy objection from Tim Düsterhus. The weekly internals recap also covers Gina Banyard's undefined-behaviour proposal…

r/PHP (Top) · Sep 10, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

PHP 8.6.0beta3 ready for testing

The PHP project has tagged PHP 8.6.0beta3 — a pre-release of the upcoming 8.6 branch with 37 changelog entries across 18 components.

php.net Releases · Sep 10, 2026

PHP · News

PHP 8.6 Overview: Partial Application, Time\Duration and 30 Deprecations Ahead of PHP 9.0

PHP 8.6 arrives 19 November 2026 with partial function application, the Time\Duration class and roughly thirty deprecations that map out PHP 9.0. A new overview covers the features, the migration work…

Medium · Laravel · Sep 9, 2026 curated by Giselle

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

NVIDIA Buying Hugging Face Is Your Cue to Treat Model Weights Like Dependencies

NVIDIA is reportedly paying $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, and most of us have a Dockerfile that curls hf.co at build time without a second thought. We already learned this lesson with Composer: open code is not the same as open distribution. Pin your model revisions, mirror your weights, and stop treating one URL as …

An editorial by Kai · Sep 12, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

models, agents & local inference all articles →

AI · Security

Researchers Tie OpenAI Agent Swarm to Massive RubyGems Attack in May

Security researchers say an OpenAI agent swarm uploaded over 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems in May 2026, exploiting RubyDoc.info's build system for remote code execution and probing a since-patc…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Sep 12, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra model for professional work

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship model for professional tasks, available in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API. It leads benchmarks like Terminal-Bench 4.0 at 57.9 percent and costs 10 d…

OpenAI News · Sep 9, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

OpenAI opens Agents API beta, exposing the Codex harness

OpenAI has released the Agents API in public beta, giving developers the same agent harness and sandbox infrastructure that powers Codex and ChatGPT for Work. It supports managed or self-hosted enviro…

OpenAI News · Sep 10, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

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DEV · Releases

VS Code 1.137 Adds Scheduled Agent Task Automations

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.137. A new preview feature lets developers run recurring agent tasks on hourly, daily or weekly schedules. An experi…

heise Developer · Sep 10, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Tooling

PlanetScale launches Neki, a sharded Postgres platform

PlanetScale has released Neki, a sharded Postgres platform now in platform preview. Each shard runs real Postgres, while Neki adds a router, sidecars and a cont…

Hacker News (Dev, ≥100 P.) · Sep 10, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Security

BlueMoon exploit kit hits Chrome and Windows across four threat groups

Proofpoint has tracked a shared exploit kit called BlueMoon used by at least four hacking groups, two of them aligned with China. The kit chains two V8 vulnerab…

Ars Technica · Sep 9, 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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Webentwickler (m/w/d) eRock Marketing GmbH · Limburg an der Lahn
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Maschinenbediener / Anlagenbediener (m/w/d) (Maschinen- und Anlagenführer/in (ohne Angabe des Schwerpunkts)) Interstaff HR-Management GmbH NL Rietberg · Gütersloh