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PHP · Releases

Laravel 13.35.0 expands scheduling and Eloquent fixes

Laravel published framework version 13.35.0 on 6 October. The release adds percentage values to queue:work --memory, new scheduling controls, QUERY route support, response markdown() and lazy local-disk root creation. It also ships a broad set of Eloquent, database, filesystem, authentication, queue, caching and testing fixes across the 13.x branch.

Laravel Framework Releases · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · RFC Watch

PHP RFC explores embedding FPM in the php executable

Matthieu Napoli has opened an RFC for --enable-cli-fpm, a build option that embeds FPM in the php executable. The combined binary would select FPM through --fpm as its first argument or through a php-fpm name, with norma…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

PHPStan 2.3.0 cuts WordPress analysis below eight seconds

PHPStan 2.3.0, released on 6 October, fixes 75 issues and delivers a major analysis speedup. The WordPress core benchmark falls from 60 seconds in PHPStan 2.1.33 to under eight seconds. PHPStan Turbo adds another 60% ove…

PHPStan Releases · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

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PHP · News

Symfony 8.2 brings native OIDC, reauthentication and new infrastructure

Symfony 8.2 is scheduled for November 2026 and will require PHP 8.4 or newer. The development branch adds component-owned bundles, recent-authentication checks, native OpenID Connect login, transactio…

Medium · PHP · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

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 pas…

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

PHP · Tooling

Mago brings PHP quality checks into one Rust binary

Mago combines PHP formatting, linting, static analysis and architectural checks in one Rust binary. Version 1.51.2 offers 190 lint rules and parallel execution. The project reports a 29-fold speed adv…

Medium · PHP · Oct 5, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

Symfony 8.2's outbox should be your default, not your upgrade project

Symfony 8.2 brings plenty of new features, but the one I care most about is a single transport option: the transactional outbox. Once preventing dual writes takes one line of config, sending to the broker directly from inside a transaction becomes a decision you have to justify. I make that case, I take the extra worke…

An editorial by Kai · Oct 6, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

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AI · Releases

Mistral opens Large 4 for public preview

On October 6, 2026, Mistral AI placed Mistral Large 4 in public preview as Open v26.10. The open-weight multimodal model uses a granular Mixture-of-Experts design with 49B active parameters out of 1.0…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Security

MCP trust gaps let malicious prompts cross agent boundaries

Security researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin found a cross-agent attack pattern affecting systems from Google and four other organizations. Weak trust checks in Model Context Protocol (MCP) let malicious p…

Ars Technica · Oct 6, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

Google starts restricted rollout of Gemini 4 Argon

Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model for long-running software engineering and defensive cybersecurity tasks. Its output limit reaches 1 million tokens, up from 64K. The model is ente…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Sep 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

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DEV · Releases

Git 2.56 makes conflict-resolution staging more precise

Git 2.56 adds git add --resolved for staging only the files whose conflicts have been resolved. Unrelated modifications stay out of the index, reducing accident…

heise Developer · Oct 3, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Security

Unpatched Zimbra installations face CVE-2026-73570 attacks

Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports active exploitation of CVE-2026-73570, an unauthenticated command-injection flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite. The bug af…

Next (FR) · Oct 1, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Releases

Angular 22 Brings Signal APIs Into the Stable Core

Angular 22, released in June 2026 and currently in the 22.2.x line, is a stabilization release for the signal-based platform. Signal Forms, Async Signals and An…

Medium · Programming · Oct 1, 2026 curated by Sönke

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JOBS · PHP Jobs

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Engineering Manager (m/f/d) AutoScout24 · Amsterdam (Netherlands); Berlin (Germany); Düsseldorf (Germany); Munich (Germany)
Client Service Director-Public Sector (w/m/d) Hirschen Group GmbH · Dresden, Altmarkt 21/22
TYPO3 Developer - Senior & Mid-Level (w/m/d) Hirschen Group GmbH · Dresden, Altmarkt 21/22