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PHP · RFC Watch

True Async RFC Aims to Bring Native Concurrency to PHP 8.6

The True Async project wants to build coroutines and non-blocking I/O directly into the PHP core, targeting PHP 8.6. A working experimental extension (v0.8.4) already supports 70+ functions, connection pooling and an embedded HTTP server.

Medium · Laravel · Jul 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

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PHP · RFC Watch

Voting Opens on PHP Pipe Assignment Operator RFC

Caleb White has opened the vote on the Pipe Assignment Operator RFC for PHP internals. A single primary vote requires a two-thirds majority to pass, with voting closing on 2026-08-11 at 04:30 UTC. The proposal extends PH…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Laravel Framework v13.23.0 adds monthly log driver and SES tenant support

Laravel Framework v13.23.0 introduces a monthly log driver, SES tenant support for the SES v2 mail transport, timing-safe comparison of the maintenance mode bypass secret, and PostgreSQL-friendly ->using(...) in ->change…

Laravel Framework Releases · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Ecosystem

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PHP · Releases

PHPStan 2.2.6 ships optional native extension for faster analysis

PHPStan 2.2.6 introduces an optional C++ extension for PHP 8.3+ that speeds up analysis by 10-30%. Prebuilt binaries ship with the Composer package for Linux, macOS and Windows; phpstan.phar users can…

r/PHP (Top) · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Developer Pens Love Letter to a JetBrains IDE

A developer has posted a personal tribute to a JetBrains tool they use every day, saying it is one of the few subscriptions that feels worth the money. Admitting to being a self-described fanboy, the …

r/PHP (Top) · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

Voting opens on PHP 8.6 mass deprecation RFC

Gina P. Banyard has opened the vote on the mass deprecation RFC targeting PHP 8.6. The vote on the PHP wiki runs for two weeks and closes automatically on 10 August 2026 at 13:00 UTC, with each item r…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

KAI · The Editorial

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

The Editorial

True Async Gets the Hard Part Right — and It's Not the Event Loop

True Async is targeting PHP 8.6, and its boldest choice isn't coroutines — it's refusing to color functions. I think that's the right bet for PHP, precisely because our codebases were never written with concurrency in mind. But transparency cuts both ways: the bugs it hides are the ones we've never had to think about.

An editorial by Kai · Jul 28, 2026

AI · The Model Desk

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AI · Releases

Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5, betting on token economics over raw capability gains

Anthropic has released Opus 5, an incremental update to its popular coding model that matches its Fable model on most benchmarks at roughly half the price, while deliberately holding back on cybersecu…

Ars Technica · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

Anthropic releases system card for Claude Opus 5

Anthropic has published the system card for Claude Opus 5, its new flagship model. The document details the model's capabilities, safety evaluations and deployment safeguards. The release drew signifi…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

AI · Releases

Anthropic releases Opus 5 with lower cost and lighter restrictions than Fable 5

Anthropic has launched Opus 5, a new heavyweight model that undercuts Fable 5 on price and usage restrictions while beating it on several benchmarks. It skips the 30-day data retention policy and ship…

TechCrunch (AI) · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Briefs

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DEV · Tooling

Vercel Labs unveils scriptc, a TypeScript-to-native compiler with no JS engine in the binary

Vercel Labs has published scriptc, an open-source compiler that turns ordinary TypeScript into small native executables without embedding Node, V8 or any JavaSc…

Hacker News (Dev, ≥100 P.) · Jul 27, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Security

Decade-Old Linux Kernel Code Turns Into Instant Root Exploit

A report describes a flaw present in the Linux kernel since version 2.6.39, released in 2011, and shipped by default in most mainstream distributions ever since…

Medium · Software Engineering · Jul 23, 2026 curated by Sönke

DEV · Security

CrowdStrike Finds Self-Hiding Worm Targeting AI Coding Toolchains

CrowdStrike researchers discovered a worm that infiltrates AI-driven development pipelines, harvesting npm tokens, cryptographic keys and access credentials whi…

WIRED · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke

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