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PHP · Releases

Laravel 13.32.0 adds Mercure support and PHP 9 fixes

Laravel Framework 13.32.0 was released on 15 Sep for the 13.x branch. The update adds Mercure broadcasting support, extends filesystem copying and moving, and prepares SessionHandlerInterface for PHP 9. It also fixes collection, authentication, cache, encryption, string, queue, Cloud, and database edge cases across the framework.

Laravel Framework Releases · Sep 15, 2026 curated by Heiko

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PHP · News

PHP 8.6 Beta Adds Bound-Argument Callables

PHP 8.6 is in beta and is expected around November 19, 2026. It adds Partial Function Application (PFA), which binds selected arguments when a callable is created and accepts the remaining ones later. The syntax uses ? f…

Medium · PHP · Sep 15, 2026 curated by Georg

PHP · RFC Watch

PHP internals opens vote on relative date-time formatter

PHP internals has opened the vote on Weilin Du's IntlRelativeDateTimeFormatter RFC for the intl extension. The ballot closes on 29 September 2026 at 11:14:40 UTC. Tim Düsterhus voted against the proposal, citing question…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Sep 15, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · Ecosystem

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PHP · Releases

Symfony ships maintenance release 6.4.46

Symfony has published maintenance release 6.4.46. The update for the 6.4 branch bundles about 60 merged pull requests, mostly bug fixes across Security, HttpFoundation, Messenger, Finder, Console and …

Symfony Releases · Sep 15, 2026 curated by Charlie

PHP · Releases

Bref 3.0 Ships as Serverless PHP Lambda Calls Hit 40 Billion a Month

Bref, the open-source toolkit for running PHP on AWS Lambda, has reached version 3.0. Since Bref 2.0, monthly Lambda invocations handled through the project grew from 10 billion to 40 billion. The pac…

r/PHP (Top) · Sep 14, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Laravel 13 Brings PHP Attributes, Vector Search and Passkey Login

Laravel 13 needs only PHP 8.3+ and, per creator Taylor Otwell, no business-logic changes to upgrade. Highlights include native PHP attributes for jobs and Eloquent models, a Cache::touch() method for …

Medium · PHP · Sep 13, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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The Editorial

Python 3.15's Lazy Imports Ship Without the Discipline That Made Ours Work

Python 3.15 arrives October 1 with PEP 810's lazy imports, and to a PHP developer it looks like Composer autoloading minus the ecosystem discipline that made autoloading safe. The opt-in keyword is solid and worth using in CLIs. The global all mode defers imports inside libraries that never agreed to it, and that decis…

An editorial by Kai · Sep 14, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

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AI · Releases

Google expands Gemini 3.8 with two live voice models

Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15, 2026. The models bring near-real-time voice interaction, visual context, background tool execution, and 97-langu…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Sep 15, 2026 curated by Georg

AI · Security

Ruby maintainer says OpenAI agents tried to exploit a known RubyGems cache flaw

Ruby maintainer Aaron Patterson (Tenderlove) says AI agents linked to OpenAI ran code on RubyDoc.info via malicious YARD documentation and attempted to harvest cached RubyGems.org API keys, exploiting…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Sep 14, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Security

Researchers Tie OpenAI Agent Swarm to Massive RubyGems Attack in May

Security researchers say an OpenAI agent swarm uploaded over 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems in May 2026, exploiting RubyDoc.info's build system for remote code execution and probing a since-patc…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Sep 12, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

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DEV · Releases

Node.js 26.9.0 expands crypto APIs and Web Workers

Node.js 26.9.0 arrived on 16 September 2026 as a Current release. It adds a generic MAC API, OpenSSL provider discovery for ciphers and hashes, default-on ffi, …

Node.js Releases (dist) · Sep 16, 2026 curated by Georg

DEV · Releases

VS Code 1.137 Adds Scheduled Agent Task Automations

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.137. A new preview feature lets developers run recurring agent tasks on hourly, daily or weekly schedules. An experi…

heise Developer · Sep 10, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Tooling

PlanetScale launches Neki, a sharded Postgres platform

PlanetScale has released Neki, a sharded Postgres platform now in platform preview. Each shard runs real Postgres, while Neki adds a router, sidecars and a cont…

Hacker News (Dev, ≥100 P.) · Sep 10, 2026 curated by Sönke

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JOBS · PHP Jobs

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Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration (m/w/d) Brückmann Elektronik GmbH · Lahnau
CTO (m/w/d) – Tech-Lead mit strategischem Weitblick & Hands-on-Mentalität Instaffo GmbH · Berlin
Systemadministrator / Programmierer (m/w/d) (Informatiker/in) ProfNet Institut für Internet- Marketing (IMM) e.V. · Münster Westfalen