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PHP · Releases

Laravel Framework v13.23.0 adds monthly log driver and SES tenant support

Laravel Framework v13.23.0 introduces a monthly log driver, SES tenant support for the SES v2 mail transport, timing-safe comparison of the maintenance mode bypass secret, and PostgreSQL-friendly ->using(...) in ->change() migrations, alongside several type improvements and bug fixes.

Laravel Framework Releases · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · Releases

PHPStan 2.2.6 ships optional native extension for faster analysis

PHPStan 2.2.6 introduces an optional C++ extension for PHP 8.3+ that speeds up analysis by 10-30%. Prebuilt binaries ship with the Composer package for Linux, macOS and Windows; phpstan.phar users can install it via PIE …

r/PHP (Top) · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Developer Pens Love Letter to a JetBrains IDE

A developer has posted a personal tribute to a JetBrains tool they use every day, saying it is one of the few subscriptions that feels worth the money. Admitting to being a self-described fanboy, the author jokingly offe…

r/PHP (Top) · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

frameworks, tooling & runtime all articles →

PHP · RFC Watch

Voting opens on PHP 8.6 mass deprecation RFC

Gina P. Banyard has opened the vote on the mass deprecation RFC targeting PHP 8.6. The vote on the PHP wiki runs for two weeks and closes automatically on 10 August 2026 at 13:00 UTC, with each item r…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

Voting Opens on RFC to Allow Property Writes on Objects Held in Constants

Khaled Alam has opened the vote on a PHP RFC that would permit modifying properties of objects referenced by class or global constants. Voting runs for two weeks and closes on August 8, 2026.

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 25, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Laravel 13.22.0: BindWhen attribute, stream bodies in HTTP fakes and queue fixes

Laravel v13.22.0 ships with a new #[BindWhen] attribute for conditional container binding, stream body support in HTTP fake responses, a Macroable RateLimiter, iterable fixes across the Arr helpers, a…

Laravel Framework Releases · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

PHP Solved Agent Architecture in 1995 — We Just Forgot to Apply It

Anthropic split their agent monolith into brain, hands, and memory, cut p95 time-to-first-token by over 90 percent, and killed a credential-theft attack class. My take: that's the shared-nothing request model PHP developers have lived in for decades. If your agent code is a long-running singleton hoarding state and sec…

An editorial by Kai · Jul 27, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

models, agents & local inference all articles →

AI · Releases

Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5, betting on token economics over raw capability gains

Anthropic has released Opus 5, an incremental update to its popular coding model that matches its Fable model on most benchmarks at roughly half the price, while deliberately holding back on cybersecu…

Ars Technica · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

Anthropic releases system card for Claude Opus 5

Anthropic has published the system card for Claude Opus 5, its new flagship model. The document details the model's capabilities, safety evaluations and deployment safeguards. The release drew signifi…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

Anthropic releases Opus 5 with lower cost and lighter restrictions than Fable 5

Anthropic has launched Opus 5, a new heavyweight model that undercuts Fable 5 on price and usage restrictions while beating it on several benchmarks. It skips the 30-day data retention policy and ship…

TechCrunch (AI) · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

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DEV · Tooling

Vercel Labs unveils scriptc, a TypeScript-to-native compiler with no JS engine in the binary

Vercel Labs has published scriptc, an open-source compiler that turns ordinary TypeScript into small native executables without embedding Node, V8 or any JavaSc…

Hacker News (Dev, ≥100 P.) · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Security

Decade-Old Linux Kernel Code Turns Into Instant Root Exploit

A report describes a flaw present in the Linux kernel since version 2.6.39, released in 2011, and shipped by default in most mainstream distributions ever since…

Medium · Software Engineering · Jul 23, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Security

CrowdStrike Finds Self-Hiding Worm Targeting AI Coding Toolchains

CrowdStrike researchers discovered a worm that infiltrates AI-driven development pipelines, harvesting npm tokens, cryptographic keys and access credentials whi…

WIRED · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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Laracon US 2026 · Jul 28, 2026 – Jul 29, 2026 · Boston, United States Conference website ↗

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JOBS · PHP Jobs

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Head of Quality Engineering Lendable · Remote
(Senior) Customer Success Manager (alle Geschlechter) Baqend · Hamburg
Senior Software Engineer - Security Libraries Datadog · Remote