Community
PHP Onboarding Initiative: Fixing the Newcomer Experience
The PHP Foundation launched a Special Interest Group to fix where new PHP developers get stuck, with a kickoff meeting on August 24 at 13:00 UTC.
Eric L. Barnes
Community
Anne McCarthy of Automattic Joins PHP Foundation Board
The PHP Foundation's Governing Board unanimously approved Anne McCarthy, Architect and Open Source Director at Automattic, as a sponsor representative.
Eric L. Barnes
Packages
PHPUnit TIA: Run Only the Tests Your Changes Affect
PHPUnit TIA ports Pest's Test Impact Analysis to PHPUnit 13, skipping tests unaffected by your changes to cut local suite runs down to seconds.
Eric L. Barnes
PHP Core
PHP 8.5.9 Fixes a Postgres SQL Injection and Three More CVEs
PHP 8.5.9 is a security release patching a Postgres SQL injection in pg_insert(), a BCMath out-of-bounds write, and Phar and GD CVEs.
Eric L. Barnes
PHP Core
PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations: static Inference and Caching
In PHP 8.6, closures drop the $this they never used, and two stateless closures from the same line are now the same object, so === returns true.
Eric L. Barnes
PHP Core
PHP 8.5.8 Fixes an OpenSSL CVE and a SOAP Regression
PHP 8.5.8 patches a memory corruption CVE in openssl_encrypt with AES-WRAP-PAD, restores SoapServer::handle() without raw input, and fixes three Opcache bugs.
Eric L. Barnes