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 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…
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,…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
