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PHP · Releases

PHP 8.6.0RC4 ready for testing

The PHP project has tagged PHP 8.6.0RC4 — a pre-release of the upcoming 8.6 branch with 50 changelog entries across 19 components.

php.net Releases · Oct 21, 2026

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PHP · Releases

PHP publishes point releases for four branches

The PHP project has released new point versions for four branches: PHP 8.5.12, PHP 8.4.27, PHP 8.3.36, and PHP 8.2.35. The release notices provide no changelog or security details.

php.net Releases · Oct 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Security

Laravel 12.70.1 blocks a protection bypass via escaping

Laravel published framework v12.70.1 on 21 October as a focused patch for the 12.x branch. The release contains one commit, e09fc54, from pull request #62027 by @valorin. Its change prevents escaping from bypassing prote…

Laravel Framework Releases · Oct 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

frameworks, tooling & runtime all articles →

PHP · Releases

PHP 8.5.12 released with security fixes

The PHP project has released PHP 8.5.12: 90 fixes across 29 components of the 8.5 branch.

php.net Releases · Oct 21, 2026 1

PHP · Releases

PHP 8.4.27 released with security fixes

The PHP project has released PHP 8.4.27: 89 fixes across 30 components of the 8.4 branch.

php.net Releases · Oct 21, 2026 1

PHP · Releases

PHP 8.3.36 released with security fixes

The PHP project has released PHP 8.3.36: 1 fixes across 1 components of the 8.3 branch.

php.net Releases · Oct 21, 2026

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

If you ship Laravel, Symfony's patch notes are your release notes too

Symfony 6.4 has reached its 48th patch release, and this week's batch fixed security issues in Yaml and HttpFoundation along with a timezone bug in Clock. Laravel teams usually wait for their own framework to tell them something changed. Kai argues you should read the upstream changelog yourself and patch on Symfony's …

An editorial by Kai · Oct 20, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

models, agents & local inference all articles →

AI · Releases

Mistral AI opens public preview for 1.05T-parameter Large 4

Mistral AI opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4 on October 6, 2026. The open-weight multimodal model uses a granular Mixture-of-Experts design with 52 billion active parameters, 1.05 trillion in…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Oct 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

Anthropic links company stake to new benefit fund

Anthropic plans to place part of its shares in the new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. The fund has a structure that increases its stake as the company expands. Anthropic published the announcement on …

Anthropic News (Sitemap-Diff) · Oct 20, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

DeepSeek publishes DeepInfer for large-scale model serving

DeepSeek has published DeepInfer, an Apache-2.0 inference framework for large-scale DeepSeek deployments. The initial release targets DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and runs on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs or Huawei Ascend…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Oct 20, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

beyond the elephpant, kept short all articles →

DEV · Security

Node.js v26.12.1 ships with a security focus

The Node.js project has published version v26.12.1 in the 26.x line. The release is marked as a security update. The supplied notice gives no vulnerability iden…

Node.js Releases (dist) · Oct 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Security

Security updates land for Node.js 24 and 22 LTS

The Node.js project has published two security releases for its LTS branches: v24.22.1, codenamed Krypton, and v22.23.4, codenamed Jod. The supplied release not…

Node.js Releases (dist) · Oct 20, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Releases

TypeScript 7.1 beta build is now available

TypeScript 7.1 has reached a beta release in the microsoft/TypeScript repository. GitHub lists the build as v7.1-beta. jakebailey published it on 20 October at …

TypeScript Releases · Oct 20, 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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