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Releases

Symfony releases maintenance update 6.4.47

SYMFONY RELEASES, September 29, 2026 — Symfony released version 6.4.47 on 29 September. The update fixes escaping in generated PHP code and tightens Redis namespace cleanup. Serializer cache keys and YAML parsing also receive fixes, alongside HTTP client and Messenger patches. ErrorHandler now reads the fatal-error backtrace supplied by PHP 8.5.

RFC Watch

PHP RFC would reject oversized bcrypt passwords

PHP INTERNALS ([RFC]/[VOTE]), September 29, 2026 — Sjoerd Langkemper has proposed the PHP RFC bcrypt_max_password_length. It would make password_hash() throw ValueError when bcrypt receives input longer than 72 bytes. PHP currently truncates longer input silently, hashing only the first 72 …

The Editorial

Stateless MCP Is PHP's Home Turf, So Spend Your Upgrade on the Tool Catalog

September 28, 2026 — laravel/mcp 1.0 drops server-side sessions, and for a language built on share-nothing requests that part of the upgrade is mostly a grep. The work that deserves real thinking is the one nobody forces on you: deciding which tools an agent se…

Releases

Laravel tags framework release v11.57.0

LARAVEL FRAMEWORK RELEASES, September 29, 2026 — Laravel released v11.57.0 of its framework on GitHub. taylorotwell created the tag on 29 September at 15:33. The release page lists no changelog entries. The update confirms the version tag but leaves the code changes undocumented.

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Releases

A practical OpenAI test drive for Laravel AI SDK v1

MEDIUM · LARAVEL — A new Laravel-focused walkthrough tests Laravel AI SDK v1 with real OpenAI API calls. It examines middleware applied per step and approvals for tool execution. The guide also covers conversations and streaming. It adds practical verificatio…

RFC Watch

PHP 8.7 proposal targets native terminal support

PHP INTERNALS ([RFC]/[VOTE]) — Pratik Bhujel has proposed Io\Terminal for PHP 8.7. The API would add native terminal sessions, size detection, safe raw mode, normalized key input, and hidden input to ext/standard. A reduced implementation is under review in php-src pull …

The Lead · The Editorial

PHP 8.5 gives you two URL parsers, and the second one is what makes it safe


PHP 8.5 ships Uri\Rfc3986\Uri and Uri\WhatWg\Url, and the obvious complaint is that one clean class would have been simpler.


September 29, 2026 — Kai argues the split is the real fix: most URL bugs come from two components reading the same string differently, and now the language makes you choose which reading you trust. Here is why, and where it will hurt.

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