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LARAVEL NEWS, August 28, 2026 — All Laravel starter kits now build with Vite+, the unified toolchain released in beta in July 2026. The switch, made via laravel/maestro#60, replaces ESLint and Prettier with a single vp CLI covering linting, formatting, and type checking.
The Editorial
August 28, 2026 — PHP 8.5 gives you a curl share that survives between FPM requests, and the benchmark headline says an 88 percent cut in request time. I think the number is the least interesting thing here. The function is worth studying because internals s…
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R/PHP (TOP), August 28, 2026 — The August 26 edition of This Week In PHP Internals covers a debate over LLM-written list posts, Sepehr Mahmoudi's new array_str_contain() RFC meeting unanimous resistance, an intl extension roadmap, and a first-time contributor adding post…
The Editorial
August 29, 2026 — FrankenPHP collapses Nginx and PHP-FPM into one Caddy-based binary, and its worker mode keeps your app resident between requests. Kai argues the persistence trap everyone warns about is actually the strongest reason to try it: a long-running process exposes global-state bugs your codebase has been carrying for years, whether or not you ever ship worker mode to production.
Releases
PHP.NET RELEASES — The PHP project has published two new patch versions: PHP 8.5.10 and PHP 8.4.25. Both releases continue the regular maintenance cycle for the currently supported stable branches and are available for download on php.net. Users running produ…
The Editorial
Four lines of PCNTL turn a silently killed PHP process into a clean exit, and every team should ship them. But a signal handler only guarantees the current work item finishes. If that item is a forty-minute report over two million rows, no …
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Symfony shipped version 6.4.45 alongside 7.4.18 and 8.1.6, bundling dozens of hardening fixes across HttpClient, HttpFoundation, Security and Mailer/Notifier components.
SYMFONY RELEASES, August 30, 2026 — Most changes reject malformed or malicious input rather than adding features: decompression bombs, cleartext proxy redirects, stale webhook timestamps and cookie path abuse are now blocked.
Releases
PHP.NET RELEASES — The PHP project has released PHP 8.4.25: 31 fixes across 18 components of the 8.4 branch.
Releases
PHP.NET RELEASES — The PHP project has released PHP 8.5.10: 34 fixes across 19 components of the 8.5 branch.
Releases: PHP 8.6.0beta2 ready for testing B2
Security: Composer 2.2.30 fixes four security vulnerabilities B2
Security: Composer 2.10.3 Closes Four Security Holes B2
Reads: Laravel Boost 2.6.0 Unifies Test Guidance and Hardens Database Queries B2
Reads: Laravel 13.27: Masked Query Bindings, whereBinary() and refreshForUpdate() B2
Reads: Swoole team open sources TypePHP, an AOT compiler turning PHP into native binaries B2
Reads: Laravel AI 0.11.0 Defers Tool Definitions With ToolSearch Wrapper B2
Releases: Laravel tags v11.56.1 release B2
The Editorial: The chunking loop is the cheap part of a billion-row backfill B3
Reads: Laravel Auditor: A Rule-Based Audit Framework for Your AI Agent B3
The Editorial: Same Opcodes, One Flag: Half-Strict PHP Is Worse Than No strict_types at All B3
News: PHP 8.6 Beta 1 sparks community debate on favorite upcoming features B3
Releases: Symfony 6.4.44 released with dozens of bug fixes B3
RFC Watch: PHP Internals Week in Review: Array Slice Debate, JSONC Flags, and 8.6 Beta 1 B3
Reads: Laravel AI SDK 0.11 Brings Full Agent Run Observability B3
The Editorial: Native lazy objects fixed your stack traces, not your query count B3
Releases: FrankenPHP 1.12.7 Fixes Discarded Output After fastcgi_finish_request() B4
RFC Watch: Pushback on RFC to Deprecate Fuzzy Type Casts Ahead of PHP 8.6 B4
Reads: Laravel Tackle Puts an AI Coding Agent Inside Your Artisan Console B4
The Editorial: Symfony Dropping XML Config Is a Tooling Decision, and Tooling Should Win B4
Releases: Laravel 11.56.0 ships as tagged release B4
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