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PHPenomenal 8.6: A PHP 8.6 Coding Challenge
PHPenomenal 8.6 challenges you to build a working PHP app with PHP 8.6 features before the release on November 19. The best entries win an elePHPant.
Eric L. Barnes
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Swoole Adds Windows Support in 6.3 RC1
Swoole 6.3.0 RC1 now supports Windows, and adds new Swoole\Table methods, an HTTP/2 multiplexing client and support for PHP 8.4's PDO subclasses.
Eric L. Barnes
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Bootgly: A PHP Framework With Its Own Async HTTP Server
Bootgly 1.0 is a PHP framework with its own HTTP server, a router, async database drivers and CLI tools. Here's how it works and what its benchmarks measure.
Eric L. Barnes
Packages
ext-turbovec: A PHP Vector Index Without Pinecone or pgvector
ext-turbovec is a PHP extension for vector search that runs in-process. It compresses embeddings to 4 bits and needs no vector database or sidecar.
Eric L. Barnes
PHP Core
PHP 8.6 RC2 Is Out, and There Is No RC1
PHP 8.6.0 RC2 is the first release candidate for PHP 8.6. A packaging bug skipped RC1, and GA is set for November 19, 2026.
Eric L. Barnes
PHP Core
PHP 8.5.11 Patches 11 CVEs, Including a SOAP Server Crash
PHP 8.5.11, 8.3.35, and 8.2.34 fix 11 CVEs, including an unauthenticated SoapServer crash and HTTP redirects that leak Authorization headers.
Eric L. Barnes
PHP Core
Time\Instant RFC Proposes a Native Clock for PHP 8.7
Tim Düsterhus and Derick Rethans propose Time\Instant and a Time\Clock interface for PHP 8.7: a timezone-free point in time you can mock in tests.
Eric L. Barnes
Packages
Laravel Vet: Spot Malicious Code in Composer Updates
Laravel Vet shows you the code each Composer update adds before it reaches vendor/, and fails your build on any package nobody has reviewed yet.
Eric L. Barnes
Community
Composer After the Attack: A SymfonyCon 2026 Talk
Composer's creators take the SymfonyCon stage to share what a year of Packagist supply chain attacks taught them, and what changed in Composer 2.10 and 2.11.
Eric L. Barnes
PHP Core
str_mask() RFC Proposes Native String Masking for PHP 8.7
The str_mask() RFC would add a native function for masking card numbers and tokens in PHP 8.7. Internals wants to know why substr_replace() isn't enough.
Eric L. Barnes
PHP Core
PEAR RFC Heads to a Vote With a PEAR Maintainer on Board
The PHP RFC to end PEAR endorsement now has a PEAR Group member's backing, an end date for the pear.php.net archive, and a vote planned for September 28.
Eric L. Barnes
Packages
HTTP QUERY Method Support in API Platform 5.0
API Platform 5.0 adds HTTP QUERY support from RFC 10008, OpenAPI 3.2, and a rebuilt Doctrine filter set. Symfony 6.4 support is dropped.
Eric L. Barnes