Monday, October 5, 2026 · Vol. I — No. 719
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The Dev Dispatch

“React learns from PHP-FPM while our GPU tensors learn CUDA.”

PHP · RFC Watch

PHP internals opens vote on PEAR endorsement

PHP internals is voting on an RFC titled “End PEAR Project Endorsement.” Nick Sdot opened the vote and linked the RFC’s wiki page and discussion thread. The proposal needs a two-thirds majority to pass. Voting ends on 19 October 2026 at 13:15 UTC. The notice does not describe any further changes or implementation details.

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Oct 5, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · RFC Watch

PHP RFC targets bcrypt's 72-byte password limit

Sjoerd Langkemper has proposed PASSWORD_BCRYPT_SHA256 for PHP’s password_hash() and password_verify(). Existing bcrypt can mishandle null bytes and ignores password data beyond 72 bytes. The proposal applies HMAC SHA256 …

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Oct 5, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

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PHP · Releases

PHPUnit project publishes version 13.4.0

PHPUnit 13.4.0 is available as a new release of the PHP unit testing framework. The announcement links to the release page maintained by Sebastian Bergmann's project on GitHub. The supplied notice doe…

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

KAI · The Editorial

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The Editorial

Give Mago your pre-commit hook, but don't hand it PHPStan's job yet

Mago, the Rust toolchain for PHP, formats, lints, analyzes and guards architecture from one binary, and its speed is real. Kai argues the smart move is to let it take over the fast, cheap checks right now, keep your plugin-backed static analysis where it is for the moment, and treat the 'replace everything' idea as som…

An editorial by Kai · Oct 5, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

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International PHP Conference Munich 2026 — Oct 26, 2026 – Oct 30, 2026 · Munich, Germany

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