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The "End PEAR Project Endorsement" RFC passed (40-0) for PHP 8.7. phpnews.net/rfcs/end_pear_en…

PHP RFC: PEAR: Ending PHP's Official Endorsement

Ends the PHP project's official endorsement of PEAR as a component framework and distribution system.

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Staying on top of the PHP ecosystem just got easier 👇 PhpStorm is proud to sponsor @PHPNewsnet to bring you the latest releases, RFCs, and community news every day! Check out today's updates: phpnews.net

PHP News: Daily PHP Tutorials, Releases & Package News

Daily PHP news, tutorials, package releases and community coverage from PHP News, updated as PHP developers need it.

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Looks like today's vote will pass, ending PHP's endorsement of Pear.
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When Retries Make Things Worse: Protecting Your System From Overload wendelladriel.com/blog/when-…

When Retries Make Things Worse: Protecting Your System From Overload

How a slow dependency becomes an outage, and how deadlines, concurrency limits, retry budgets, and jitter protect useful work. A practical deep dive with PHP examples and a controlled overload test...

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Using Partial Function Application to define stricter functions gpb.moe/blog/pfa-strict-fns.…
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Voting is open on the "Throw ValueError for invalid characters in number base functions" RFC until November 1. phpnews.net/rfcs/throw_error…

PHP RFC: hexdec() and bindec(): Throw on Invalid Characters

Makes bindec(), octdec(), hexdec() and base_convert() throw an Exception on invalid characters instead of ignoring them.

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LaraLat Meetup Guatemala starts tomorrow. phpnews.net/events/laralat-m…

LaraLat Meetup Guatemala

The first in-person Laravel, Statamic CMS and NativePHP meetup in Guatemala ever!

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New in PHP 8.6: Polling API tideways.com/profiler/blog/n…

New in PHP 8.6: Polling API

Find Out Why Your PHP App Is Slow Before It Costs You. Tideways shows you exactly where PHP performance breaks down - in production, in real time.

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LaraLat Meetup Guatemala phpnews.net/events/laralat-m…

LaraLat Meetup Guatemala

The first in-person Laravel, Statamic CMS and NativePHP meetup in Guatemala ever!

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UpstatePHP - Show & Tell starts tomorrow. phpnews.net/events/upstateph…

UpstatePHP - Show & Tell

UpstatePHP's Show & Tell night in Greenville, SC: 5 to 10 minute demos of whatever you've been hacking on, plus food and drinks.

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PHP Social Network Built Live in 48 Hours With JetBrains Air phpnews.net/php-social-netwo…

PHP Social Network Built Live in 48 Hours With JetBrains Air

Nuno Maduro, Brent Roose, and Matthieu Napoli are building a social network for developers in PHP and Laravel, live on YouTube from the JetBrains office.

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Keeping up with PHP means checking a dozen sites, the internals list, the wiki, and a pile of GitHub repos. Until now, no single place made it easy to keep up with the language, so @mattstauffer and I decided to do something about it. Today we’re launching @phpnewsnet. phpnews.net
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Automattic Applies for a .php Top-Level Domain phpnews.net/php-tld-automatt…

Automattic Applies for a .php Top-Level Domain

WordPress parent Automattic filed for a .php TLD in ICANN's 2026 round. Here's how the application works and when the PHP Foundation could object.

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PHP 8.7 RFC: Comments and Trailing Commas in json_decode() phpnews.net/json-comments-tr…

PHP 8.7 RFC: Comments and Trailing Commas in json_decode()

A new PHP 8.7 RFC adds two opt-in flags that let json_decode() and json_validate() accept // and /* */ comments and a trailing comma.

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How the PHP Security Team Handles Your Reports thephp.foundation/blog/2026/…

How the PHP Security Team Handles Your Reports

Where PHP security triage stands, the tools we use, and how to send a report we can act on

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Busy day for PHP events tomorrow!
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Building a Social Network in PHP in 48 Hours starts tomorrow. phpnews.net/events/building-…

Building a Social Network in PHP in 48 Hours

Nuno Maduro, Brent Roose and Matthieu Napoli build a working social network in PHP live over two days, streamed from the JetBrains office.

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Longhorn PHP 2026 starts tomorrow. phpnews.net/events/longhorn-…

Longhorn PHP 2026

A two-day PHP conference in Austin, Texas: a day of hands-on tutorials followed by a full day of conference talks.

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Season 8 is here 🎙️ @ericlbarnes joins @mattstauffer to talk about @laravelnews in the age of AI, building a low-stress life, and launching PHPNews.net . Plus why your LLM should be writing PHP. Listen now → share.transistor.fm/s/d0e328…

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This week's PHP News newsletter is out: PHP 8.6 RC3 is out and ready for testing phpnews.net/newsletter/archi…

PHP 8.6 RC3 is out and ready for testing

3 stories and 10 community links from the week of Oct 6 - Oct 13, 2026.

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