The Daily Commit · Section Edition Front Page PHP AI Dev EN DE FR ES
Motto
„All the Code
That's Fit to Ship“

The Php Times

Ecosystem — The Daily Commit

Weather
Today: cache warm, deploys fair. Rollback probability 0 %. Page B2
Vol. I — No. 679 Wednesday, September 30, 2026 Page B8 · € 0,00

Releases

Laravel Framework Ships v13.21.0 and v13.21.1 Patch Updates

LARAVEL FRAMEWORK RELEASES, July 21, 2026 — The Laravel framework repository has published two new tags in its 13.x branch, v13.21.0 and v13.21.1, following the project's regular release cadence. No detailed changelog was available at publication; as routine point releases, they typically bundle minor fixes and small improvements for existing Laravel 13 users.

Reads

A Practical Guide to PHP Attributes — And Their Limits

FREEK.DEV, July 21, 2026 — Wendell Adriel published a detailed article covering PHP attributes: how they work as metadata, how to read them with Reflection, common design patterns, Laravel usage examples, performance considerations, and testing strategies. It also we…

Reads

Laravel Time Machine Profiles Request Lifecycle Without a Database

LARAVEL NEWS, July 21, 2026 — Laravel Time Machine, a package by Jaydeep Gadhiya, tracks every phase of a Laravel request—bootstrap, middleware, routing, controller, response, termination—with millisecond timing and SQL query capture. It stores JSON profiles in storage/time-machine, flags slow requests and queries, and ships a dashboard at /time-machine for Laravel 8 through 13.

→ continued: summary & source

News

Guzzle 8.0 Brings Enhanced Request Diagnostics and HTTP/3 Support

MEDIUM · PHP — Guzzle 8.0 is now available, adding HTTP/3 protocol support and stronger debugging capabilities for HTTP requests. The release prioritizes improved error diagnostics to help developers distinguish between connection failures and ambiguous t…

The Lead · Reads

PHP Foundation Debuts Quarterly Core Team Report, Covers Q2 2026


THE PHP FOUNDATION, July 21, 2026 — The PHP Foundation launched a new quarterly report format detailing its 13 core contractors' work: engine bug fixes, new streaming/TLS APIs, Windows toolchain upgrades ahead of PHP 8.6, an accepted URI RFC, a fresh Ecosystem Security Team that scanned 500+ Composer packages, and leadership initiatives like the PHP Ambassador program and State of PHP Survey.

→ continued: summary & source

News

PECL Release Endpoints Timing Out, Reddit Thread Reports

R/PHP (TOP) — PHP developers on r/PHP report that PECL's release pages, such as pecl.php.net/rest/r/amqp/stable.txt, are timing out while cached pages still load. A GitHub issue (php/php-src#22827) tracks the probl…

RFC Watch

New RFC Proposes Bundled user_cache Extension for PHP

PHP INTERNALS ([RFC]/[VOTE]) — Go Kudo has published a new RFC proposing a bundled user_cache extension, replacing his earlier OPcache Static Cache proposal after feedback about feature creep. The extension is built independently o…

◆ Inside The Php Times ◆

"All the Code That's Fit to Ship" · The Daily Commit · Screen edition · Imprint · Privacy Policy