Releases
PHP 8.6.0beta3 ready for testing
PHP.NET RELEASES, September 10, 2026 — The PHP project has tagged PHP 8.6.0beta3 — a pre-release of the upcoming 8.6 branch with 37 changelog entries across 18 components.
The Editorial
Let Deprecations Fail Your Build, and Let PHP 8.6 Be the Excuse
September 9, 2026 — PHP 8.6 arrives on 19 November 2026 as a light release: partial function application, a Duration class, and about thirty deprecations. My argument: the version bump is trivial, so spend the saved time making deprecation notices break your p…
News
PHP 8.6 Overview: Partial Application, Time\Duration and 30 Deprecations Ahead of PHP 9.0
MEDIUM · LARAVEL, September 9, 2026 — PHP 8.6 arrives 19 November 2026 with partial function application, the Time\Duration class and roughly thirty deprecations that map out PHP 9.0. A new overview covers the features, the migration work and why enabling E_DEPRECATED now pays …
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Telescope 5.24.0 Brings CLI Debugging with telescope:list and telescope:show
LARAVEL NEWS, September 9, 2026 — Laravel Telescope 5.24.0, released September 8, 2026, adds two Artisan commands, telescope:list and telescope:show, for inspecting recorded entries from the terminal. Both support filters and JSON output for scripts and coding agents. The release also aborts stale dashboard requests during navigation.
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Laravel 13.31 adds queue totalSize() and a JobInterrupted event
LARAVEL NEWS — Laravel v13.31.0 ships a new Queue::totalSize() method and a JobInterrupted event for Interruptible jobs. The release also adds chaperone support for BelongsToMany pivot models, a Vite devServerUrl() method, once assertions for the Mail and…
The Editorial
A sanitizer that hands your bytes back is not a sanitizer
GiveWP's first attempt at fixing CVE-2026-82222 detected the malicious object and then returned the original payload anyway. That single line is the whole lesson of this CVSS 10.0 bug: allowed_classes => false does not disarm anything, it d…
The Lead · RFC Watch
PHP Internals Week: PREG_THROW_ON_ERROR Vote Pulled, PEAR Sunset Moves Forward
Osama Aldemeery withdrew the PREG_THROW_ON_ERROR vote after 56 hours following a policy objection from Tim Düsterhus.
R/PHP (TOP), September 10, 2026 — The weekly internals recap also covers Gina Banyard's undefined-behaviour proposal, progress on sunsetting PEAR, and the closed strict-identifiers thread.
Releases
Laravel 12.69.2 sets Cloud exit code default and fixes closure types
LARAVEL FRAMEWORK RELEASES — Laravel released v12.69.2, a patch on the 12.x branch. It sets a default memoryExceededExitCode for Laravel Cloud and corrects closure return types in withFreshQueryLog() and askWithCompletion(). The …
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Fuzz Brings Coverage-Guided Fuzz Testing to Pest 5
LARAVEL NEWS — Fuzz, a package by Jon Purvis, adds coverage-guided fuzz testing to Pest 5 via nikic's PHP-Fuzzer. It mutates seed strings, tracks code coverage without Xdebug, and reports crashes as failed tests. A …