Releases
curated by Sönke
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
curated by Sönke
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
An editorial by Kai
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…