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PHP · News

PHP internals week in review: AI-written mails, array_str_contain() and post-quantum sodium

The August 26 edition of This Week In PHP Internals covers a debate over LLM-written list posts, Sepehr Mahmoudi's new array_str_contain() RFC meeting unanimous resistance, an intl extension roadmap, and a first-time contributor adding post-quantum crypto bindings to ext/sodium.

r/PHP (Top) · Aug 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · Releases

PHP 8.5.10 and PHP 8.4.25 released

The PHP project has published two new patch versions: PHP 8.5.10 and PHP 8.4.25. Both releases continue the regular maintenance cycle for the currently supported stable branches and are available for download on php.net.…

php.net Releases · Aug 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

PHP 8.4.25 released

The PHP project has released PHP 8.4.25: 31 fixes across 18 components of the 8.4 branch.

php.net Releases · Aug 27, 2026

PHP · Ecosystem

frameworks, tooling & runtime all articles →

PHP · Releases

PHP 8.5.10 released

The PHP project has released PHP 8.5.10: 34 fixes across 19 components of the 8.5 branch.

php.net Releases · Aug 27, 2026

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

PHP · Security

Composer 2.2.30 fixes four security vulnerabilities

Composer 2.2.30 is a security release for the 2.2 LTS line. It patches a path traversal issue via package bin symlinks (CVE-2026-59944), a command injection through malicious Perforce URLs, and two cr…

Composer Releases · Aug 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

The best part of curl_share_init_persistent is what it refuses to do

PHP 8.5 gives you a curl share that survives between FPM requests, and the benchmark headline says an 88 percent cut in request time. I think the number is the least interesting thing here. The function is worth studying because internals shipped an API you cannot point at your own foot, and paid for that in flexibilit…

An editorial by Kai · Aug 28, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

models, agents & local inference all articles →

AI · Releases

Z.AI releases GLM-5.3 open-weights model with 1.51TB footprint and anti-Big-Tech license clause

Z.AI has released GLM-5.3 as an open-weights model. The community notes a 1.51TB model size that rules out most home setups, a license clause requiring companies with over 10 billion US dollars in rev…

r/LocalLLaMA (Top) · Aug 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: First Benchmarks Show 124 tok/s with MTP1

A Reddit user has published first performance numbers for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next FP8 on two RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. With MTP1 speculative decoding, the model sustains about 124 tok/s generation with …

r/LocalLLaMA (Top) · Aug 26, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · News

Nvidia Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model hub, for $12.9 billion, according to The Information. The deal would give Nvidia a stronger open-source position, a route…

TechCrunch (AI) · Aug 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

beyond the elephpant, kept short all articles →

DEV · Security

Critical Next.js flaws allow remote code execution, Windows servers affected

Vercel has patched two critical vulnerabilities in Next.js with its August security release. One flaw in the libheif library enables heap buffer overflows durin…

heise Developer · Aug 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

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

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Longhorn PHP 2026 · Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 16, 2026 · Austin, United States Conference website ↗

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JOBS · PHP Jobs

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Fachinformatiker Systemintegration (m/w/d) (Fachinformatiker/in - Systemintegration) puro Personaldienstleistung GmbH · Berlin
Senior PHP-Developer / Full Stack (m/w/d) TMS PRO SHOP GmbH · Braunschweig
Senior Magento-Developer / Full Stack (m/w/d) TMS PRO SHOP GmbH · Braunschweig