Is PHP finally breaking up with PEAR?
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  • Is PHP finally breaking up with PEAR?
  • PHP on ESP32: The Zend Engine on a Microcontroller
  • PHP 8.5.10 Fixes Stack Overflows on Deeply Nested Arrays
  • TypePHP: Compile PHP to Native Binaries
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  • Around the web: 8 links the community sent in.
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Is PHP finally breaking up with PEAR?
A new PHP RFC would end php.net's endorsement of PEAR, unbundle the installer from PHP 8.7, and freeze pear.php.net as a static archive.
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PHP 8.5.10 turns seven stack overflow crashes into catchable errors, forbids \C in UTF-8 regex patterns, and fixes PDO_PGSQL lazy...
PHP 8.5.10 Fixes Stack Overflows on Deeply Nested Arrays
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PHP 8.6 deprecates four SplFileObject CSV methods. The standalone fgetcsv() and fputcsv() functions and the READ_CSV flag are not...
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