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Oct 13 - Oct 20, 2026
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In this issue
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The History of PEAR, PHP's First Package Manager
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PHP Social Network Built Live in 48 Hours With JetBrains Air
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Automattic Applies for a .php Top-Level Domain
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PHP 8.7 RFC: Comments and Trailing Commas in json_decode()
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16 community links · 3 RFC votes open · 1 RFC decided · 2 new RFCs · 3 upcoming events
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PHP Core
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The full story of PEAR, from a 1999 commit to PHP's bundled installer, Composer, the 2019 breach, and the 2026 vote to end PHP's endorsement.
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More this week
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Community
Nuno Maduro, Brent Roose, and Matthieu Napoli are building a social network for developers in PHP and Laravel, live on YouTube fro...
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Community
WordPress parent Automattic filed for a .php TLD in ICANN's 2026 round. Here's how the application works.
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PHP Core
A new PHP 8.7 RFC adds two opt-in flags that let json_decode() and json_validate() accept // and /* */ comments and a trailing com...
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RFC Watch
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Voting now
23 yes, 0 no. Voting closes October 22.
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Voting now
18 yes, 0 no. Voting closes November 1.
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Voting now
1 yes, 5 no. Voting closes November 4.
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Accepted
40 yes, 0 no.
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New proposal
Makes ini_get_all() accept extension names in any letter case, as extension_loaded() and phpversion() already do.
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New proposal
Adds JSON_ALLOW_COMMENTS and JSON_ALLOW_TRAILING_COMMAS flags so json_decode() and json_validate() accept comments and a final comma.
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Follow every RFC on the tracker →
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