The Dev Dispatch

PHP · Reads

CPX 2.0: An npx-Style Executor for Composer Packages

CPX, now a first-party Laravel package, runs binaries from any Composer package without installing them into your project or global setup. Version 2.0 prefers local project binaries, replaces built-in shortcuts with user…

Laravel News · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Reads

Inertia DevTools Extension Arrives on the Chrome Web Store

The Inertia DevTools extension is now listed on the Chrome Web Store. It adds an Inertia panel to Chrome DevTools that records every visit, groups related requests, and shows props, headers, routes, and page state. Recor…

Laravel News · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Reads

Queue-SQL Package Splits Large Laravel Updates and Deletes into Parallel Queue Jobs

Queue-SQL, a Laravel package by Kamran Atayev, breaks massive UPDATE and DELETE statements into key-range slices processed as parallel queued jobs via Laravel's native batching. It offers a queue() query builder macro, C…

Laravel News · Jul 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Reads

Laravel AI SDK v0.10.0 Introduces Human-in-the-Loop Tool Approval

Announced at Laracon US 2026, the Laravel AI SDK now lets agents pause before executing sensitive tools so a human can approve, reject, or edit the call. The opt-in feature ships in v0.10.0 with approval contracts, decis…

Laravel News · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Reads

Laravel Pint 1.30 Adds Blade Template Formatting via Prettier

Laravel Pint 1.30.0 introduces opt-in formatting of Blade templates through a new --blade flag, powered by Prettier and dedicated Blade and Tailwind plugins. The release also fixes --diff rename handling, redirects --qui…

Laravel News · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Reads

Pest 5 arrives with Test Impact Analysis, AI agent tooling, and eval support

Nuno Maduro announced Pest 5 at Laracon US 2026. The release brings a Test Impact Analysis engine that cut Laravel Cloud's 19,000-test suite from 3 minutes to 5 seconds, plus plugins for AI agent verification, LLM evals,…

Laravel News · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · News

Guzzle 8 Sharpens Request Diagnostics Over Raw Performance Gains

Guzzle 8.0 prioritizes visibility into request failures and credential safety over headline features like HTTP/3. The upgrade equips developers with granular error classification and diagnostic tools to distinguish conne…

Medium · PHP · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · The Editorial

Guzzle 8 Can Tell You How a Request Died. Safety Is Still Your Job.

Guzzle 8.0 landed on 21 July 2026, and the loudest headline is HTTP/3. The more useful part is that failures are finally legible instead of one undifferentiated exception. But a better diagnosis is not a cure: no client …

An editorial by Kai · Jul 30, 2026

PHP · Releases

PHP Ships Coordinated Updates for 8.5, 8.4, 8.3 and 8.2 Branches

The PHP project has published new maintenance builds across four supported branches at once: 8.5.9, 8.4.24, 8.3.33 and 8.2.33. The synchronized rollout brings bug fixes and stability improvements to each active release l…

php.net Releases · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

Voting opens on PHP's fifth function autoloading RFC

Paul M. Jones has opened the vote on the Function Autoloading (mark 5) RFC for PHP. Voting runs two weeks and closes automatically at 14:45 UTC on Thursday, 13 August 2026. The proposal addresses concerns about shadowed …

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 30, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Symfony 6.4.43 released with dozens of bug fixes and security hardening

Symfony has published version 6.4.43, a patch release for the 6.4 branch. The changelog lists dozens of bug fixes, including security-relevant hardening in HttpClient and SecurityBundle plus fixes across Serializer, Mail…

Symfony Releases · Jul 29, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · 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 mi…

An editorial by Kai · Jul 28, 2026

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 emb…

Medium · Laravel · Jul 28, 2026 curated by Sönke

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 · 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 install it via PIE …

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 author jokingly offe…

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 requiring an individu…

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

PHP · RFC Watch

Voting Opens on RFC to Allow Property Writes on Objects Held in Constants

Khaled Alam has opened the vote on a PHP RFC that would permit modifying properties of objects referenced by class or global constants. Voting runs for two weeks and closes on August 8, 2026.

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 25, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

Laravel 13.22.0: BindWhen attribute, stream bodies in HTTP fakes and queue fixes

Laravel v13.22.0 ships with a new #[BindWhen] attribute for conditional container binding, stream body support in HTTP fake responses, a Macroable RateLimiter, iterable fixes across the Arr helpers, and several queue-rel…

Laravel Framework Releases · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

Voting Opens on Readonly Property Defaults RFC

Voting has begun on the PHP "Readonly Property Defaults" RFC, proposed by Nick Sdot. The proposal would allow default values for readonly properties and requires a two-thirds majority to pass. Voting closes on 7 August 2…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 24, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Reads

Hands-on Walkthrough of Laravel's New Illuminate\Image API

Laravel News breaks down the Illuminate\Image component added in Laravel 13.20 (PR #59276), showing how to resize, crop, convert formats, apply effects, and store results using the fluent, immutable API — with worked exa…

Laravel News · Jul 23, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

New PHP RFC Proposes Pluggable Coroutine Scheduler for the Zend Engine

A new PHP RFC by Edmond Dantes proposes giving the Zend Engine a native coroutine representation and a pluggable scheduler interface implementable via extensions, without adding any new PHP syntax, functions or classes. …

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 23, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

Literal Scalar Types RFC Voting Postponed for Policy Compliance

Seifeddine Gmati opened voting on the Literal Scalar Types RFC but immediately retracted it after discovering procedural violations. A proper Intent to Vote will be reissued, with voting to reopen on or after July 30 fol…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 23, 2026 curated by Heiko

PHP · RFC Watch

PHP 8.6 Ballots Open on Time\Duration and Minimum Versions as gd 2.4 Misses the Cutoff

This week's PHP internals recap covers two live ballots — the Time\Duration class (23-1) and PHP 8.6's minimum version requirements (autoconf 2.71, MySQL 5.7.3) — both closing before month's end. Pierre Joye's ambitious …

r/PHP (Top) · Jul 23, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · RFC Watch

PHP RFC Debate: Should Literal Scalar Types Join the Type System?

A newly opened RFC by Seifeddine Gmati (implementation: php-src PR #22314) proposes literal scalar types for PHP, letting signatures declare exact values like -1|0|1 or "ascii"|"utf-8" instead of just int or string. Inte…

PHP Internals ([RFC]/[VOTE]) · Jul 23, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Reads

New Open-Source Package Tackles SSRF in Laravel Beyond Simple IP Blocklists

A community link shared on freek.dev points to laravel-ssrf, a new open-source package the author built after finding no solid SSRF-prevention library for Laravel. The approach and test suite are grounded in a USENIX Sec…

freek.dev · Jul 22, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Reads

Laravel 13.21 Adds RouteKey Attribute and Broader Image Format Support

Laravel 13.21, released July 21, 2026 alongside patch 13.21.1, adds a #[RouteKey] attribute for declarative route model binding, a base64 validation rule, and a #[RequestAttribute] contextual attribute for injecting requ…

Laravel News · Jul 22, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Releases

FrankenPHP 1.12.6 patches HTTP/2 crash triggered by delayed php://input reads

FrankenPHP 1.12.6 fixes a process-crashing bug that occurred over HTTP/2 when a script called frankenphp_finish_request() and later read php://input, a pattern common with enable_post_data_reading=Off. FrankenPHP was set…

FrankenPHP Releases · Jul 22, 2026 curated by Sönke

PHP · Reads

PHP Foundation Debuts Quarterly Core Team Report, Covers Q2 2026

The PHP Foundation launched a new quarterly report format detailing its 13 core contractors' work: engine bug fixes, new streaming/TLS APIs, Windows toolchain upgrades ahead of PHP 8.6, an accepted URI RFC, a fresh Ecosy…

The PHP Foundation · Jul 21, 2026 curated by Sönke