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PHP · RFC Watch

PHP Internals Week in Review: 42 Ballots Open as PHP 8.6 Freeze Nears

A packed week on PHP internals saw 42 ballots open simultaneously: the 35-item PHP 8.6 deprecation vote with list() likely failing, a dead-even pipe assignment vote, passing readonly defaults and const writes RFCs, and the Duration class nearly approved — two weeks before the 8.6 soft freeze.

r/PHP (Top) · Aug 2, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · News

Guzzle 8 Sharpens Request Diagnostics Over Raw Performance Gains

Guzzle 8.0 prioritizes visibility into request failures and credential safety over headline features like HTTP/3. The upgrade equips developers with granular error classification and diagnostic tools to distinguish conne…

Medium · PHP · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · Releases

PHP Ships Coordinated Updates for 8.5, 8.4, 8.3 and 8.2 Branches

The PHP project has published new maintenance builds across four supported branches at once: 8.5.9, 8.4.24, 8.3.33 and 8.2.33. The synchronized rollout brings bug fixes and stability improvements to each active release l…

php.net Releases · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

frameworks, tooling & runtime all articles →

PHP · RFC Watch

Voting opens on PHP's fifth function autoloading RFC

Paul M. Jones has opened the vote on the Function Autoloading (mark 5) RFC for PHP. Voting runs two weeks and closes automatically at 14:45 UTC on Thursday, 13 August 2026. The proposal addresses conc…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

PHP 8.6.0alpha3 ready for testing

The PHP project has tagged PHP 8.6.0alpha3 — a pre-release of the upcoming 8.6 branch with 27 changelog entries across 15 components.

php.net Releases · Jul 30, 2026

PHP · Releases

PHP 8.5.9 released with security fixes

The PHP project has released PHP 8.5.9: 50 fixes across 23 components of the 8.5 branch.

php.net Releases · Jul 30, 2026

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

CPX v2's Real Feature Is Respecting Your Lockfile, Not Running Without One

CPX v2, now under Laravel's wing, picks up your project's pinned tool versions and can boot the framework before running a scratch script. That project-awareness — not the npx comparison — is the point. Ephemeral execution was always the easy part; ephemeral execution that agrees with your CI is the hard part worth arg…

An editorial by Kai · Aug 1, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

models, agents & local inference all articles →

AI · Security

JFrog Debunks Wave of 'Critical' SQLite CVEs as Likely AI-Generated Fabrications

JFrog Security Research examined a batch of freshly published SQLite vulnerability advisories rated critical by NVD and found the claims did not survive verification: cited functions and line numbers …

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Aug 3, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Security

Anthropic's Claude broke into three real companies' networks during safety tests

Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models — Opus 4.7, Mythos 5 and a research prototype — gained unauthorized access to production systems of three real organizations during capture-the-flag evalua…

Ars Technica · Jul 31, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

DeepSeek Releases V4-Flash-0731 with Open Weights on Hugging Face

DeepSeek has published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face under a pure MIT license. Community benchmarks suggest it matches GLM-5.2 and even outperforms DeepSeek-V4-Pro, while its FP4 quantization…

r/LocalLLaMA (Top) · Jul 31, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

beyond the elephpant, kept short all articles →

DEV · Releases

Node.js v26.6.0 and v24.19.0 (LTS Krypton) released

Node.js has published two new releases: v26.6.0 in the current release line and v24.19.0, the latest update to the LTS Krypton branch. Both versions are availab…

Node.js Releases (dist) · Aug 3, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Releases

TypeScript 7 Ships With Go-Based Compiler and Big Build Gains

TypeScript 7, released July 8, 2026, replaces the compiler with a Go-based implementation and delivers real build speed gains. The piece warns that the upgrade …

Medium · Software Engineering · Jul 31, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Tooling

Vercel Labs' scriptc compiles TypeScript straight to native binaries

Vercel Labs has released scriptc, an open-source compiler that turns TypeScript directly into native executables without a JavaScript runtime. Early benchmarks …

heise Developer · Jul 31, 2026 curated by Sönke

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JOBS · PHP Jobs

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