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The International PHP Conference runs October 26 to 30, 2026 in Munich with eight tracks, two workshop days, and early bird pricing until August 20.
Eric L. Barnes
Brent Roose's PHP 8.6 rundown walks through partial function application, the new polling API, clamp(), the Duration class, and 20+ deprecations.
Eric L. Barnes
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
The PHP Foundation's Governing Board unanimously approved Anne McCarthy, Architect and Open Source Director at Automattic, as a sponsor representative.
Eric L. Barnes
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 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 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
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