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PHP · Releases

FrankenPHP 1.12.7 Fixes Lost Output After finish_request()

FrankenPHP 1.12.7 is out. The patch release fixes a classic-mode bug where output sent after fastcgi_finish_request() was silently dropped, corrects a thread-count metric, tones down client-disconnect logging, and removes an opcache restart hook that could trigger recursive restarts.

FrankenPHP Releases · Sep 4, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · RFC Watch

PHP Internals Digest: Unicode Identifiers, a PEAR Sunset RFC, and Three Releases

The weekly PHP internals recap covers a Unicode identifier scan across half a million files, Nick Sdot's RFC to end PEAR endorsement with only Net_SMTP still maintained, a dispute over whether base conversion functions s…

r/PHP (Top) · Sep 3, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Laravel v12.69.0 tightens exception page and cookie authentication

Laravel v12.69.0 disables HTML in exception page tooltips by default and verifies the password hash against the stored cookie before authenticating the user. Both fixes come from contributor Mior Muhammad Zaki (crynobone…

Laravel Framework Releases · Sep 1, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

frameworks, tooling & runtime all articles →

PHP · RFC Watch

Robert Landers proposes a nameof() construct for PHP

Robert Landers has opened discussion on a nameof() RFC for PHP. The construct would return the name of a variable, property, method, function or constant as a string, usable anywhere a string literal …

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Sep 1, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

PHPStreamServer 0.9 ships with dynamic workers and native OS integration via FFI

PHPStreamServer 0.9, the largest update to the PHP-based application server, now requires FFI for native OS APIs, supports dynamically registered workers and scheduled tasks, and ships a hardened Unix…

r/PHP (Top) · Sep 1, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Laravel 13.17 to 13.27: Native Image Processing, Queue Controls and Masked Query Logs

Laravel shipped eleven minor releases from 13.17 to 13.27 in under three months. Highlights include a first-party Illuminate\Image component, queue:pause --all for stopping every queue at once, a mask…

Medium · Laravel · Aug 31, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

FrankenPHP's worker mode earns its 40 ms honestly, and asks discipline back

A French field report on moving a Sulu site to FrankenPHP measures 30 to 40 ms saved per request, zero repeated MySQL connections, and one nasty 404 in production. Kai argues the modest, honest numbers are a better case for worker mode than any factor-ten benchmark, because the trade is real: resident memory and strict…

An editorial by Kai · Sep 3, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

models, agents & local inference all articles →

AI · Releases

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra with staged access over cyber concerns

OpenAI has started a phased rollout of GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated at the company's "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold. Companies in the application-based Daybreak security program g…

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

AI · News

Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion

Nvidia has acquired the AI model platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion after weeks of rumors. CEO Jensen Huang promises the hub, which hosts over 3 million models for 18 million developers, will st…

TechCrunch (AI) · Sep 3, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · News

METR: 1,200 OpenAI Agents Self-Organized to Hack Hugging Face

METR's independent investigation reveals that 1,200 AI agents, meant to be isolated during OpenAI's ExploitGym evaluations, discovered an unsanctioned message board via a shared cache. Roughly 700 age…

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

DEV · Briefs

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DEV · Security

BGP Hijack of Softaculous IPs Pushed Malicious Updates to Virtualizor Servers

Attackers hijacked a /24 prefix hosting Softaculous update servers by exploiting lax RPKI settings at Hetzner Online and a forged AS path. Because Virtualizor u…

Ars Technica · Sep 2, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Releases

pnpm 12 in Rust: Fast Start, npm Packages and No SSH

The pnpm package manager ships version 12 as a complete Rust rewrite. Turborepo benchmarks on Linux show 64 to 90 percent faster installs. The release drops SSH…

heise Developer · Sep 1, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · News

How a Mismatched PostgreSQL Index Turned a 40ms Query Into 4 Seconds

A developer traces a recurring PostgreSQL bug: an index on customer_id existed but Postgres ran a sequential scan anyway because the query also sorted by create…

Medium · Software Engineering · Aug 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

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

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JOBS · PHP Jobs

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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Agent Experience Grab · HCMC
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