Video version: https://youtu.be/ZtAKnN6jWbE I love static analysis tools to a degree that my co-workers find annoying. Tools like PHPStan and Psalm catch bugs before they ever reach production, and once you get used to that safety net, it is impossible to imagine coding without it. But there is one thing about these tools that drives […] The post Mago: Blazing Fast Static Analysis for PHP appeared first on PHP Architect.
For years, Webpack Encore was the answer to asset management in Symfony, and it still works. But the JavaScript bundler landscape has moved on since Encore was designed. Webpack needed a loader wired up for nearly everything (Sass, TypeScript, you name it),…
🎙️ The PHP Podcast – July 30, 2026 Hosts: Joe Ferguson, Sara Golemon & Holly Schilling Time travel is real, birds aren’t. The gang argues about Fahrenheit vs. Celsius, boiling rocks, and stones (the weight kind), then gets into PSR-3 logging, the PHP ecosystem, AI slop bug reports, Codeberg’s anti-AI stance, and Laravel Cloud’s scale-to-zero […] The post The PHP Podcast 2026.07.30 appeared first on PHP Architect.
Symfony 8.0.16 was released on July 29, 2026. It is the last release of the 8.0 branch. Symfony's release policy gives standard versions eight months of support, with bug fixes and security fixes ending at the same time. Symfony 8.0.0 was published on November…
Symfony 8.1.3 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…
Symfony 8.0.16 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…
Brendt shares fresh Packagist-based PHP version stats for July 2026: PHP 8.4 is now the most-used version, while PHP 8.5 reached 16% adoption after six months. He also notes that package minimum requirements still lag behind, with relatively few popular packages requiring a version that still gets active bugfix support. Read more
Symfony 8.1.2 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…
Symfony 8.0.15 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…
Symfony 7.4.15 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…
Symfony 6.4.43 has just been released. Read the Symfony upgrade guide to learn more about upgrading Symfony and use the SymfonyInsight upgrade reports to detect the code you will need to change in your project. Tip…
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SymfonyCon returns to its roots! Join us in Warsaw (Poland) on November 26 and 27, 2026, for two days of world-class technical sessions. See more details here! 🎤 Speaker announcements We are excited to introduce Mathias Arlaud, Software Engineer…
This week, Symfony development activity was very intense and focused mostly on bug fixes. In addition, we added support for the upcoming Twig 4.0 version and fixed some issues related to changes in the upcoming PHP 8.6 version. Lastly, we published the first…
Steve King builds a real order fulfilment flow to show how a workflow engine handles long-running processes in Laravel. The post covers steps, signals, retries, branching, human approval, compensation, and the surrounding tooling in one practical example. Read more