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This post previews PHP 8.6 features, highlighting partial function application, a new polling API, and readonly property defaults. It also mentions other improvements and deprecations expected in the upcoming release.
PHP 8.6 adds partial function application, a clamp() helper, a Duration class, and assorted language and stdlib tweaks. The post lists each change without deep analysis.
The article walks through practical ways to achieve immutability in PHP beyond the built‑in readonly keyword, covering interior mutability, immutable value objects, collections, dates, and cloning. It also shows how to enforce and test these patterns in real codebases.
A 174‑line PHP shim for `http_build_url()` was published in 2014, ended up with ~20 M installs, and is now deprecated in favor of the PHP‑League URI library and the native URI API in PHP 8.5.
ClickHouse's September 2026 newsletter highlights the 26.8 release with features like pipelined SQL and custom HTTP handlers, alongside previews for On-Demand Compute and a PromQL-compatible TimeSeries engine. It also covers new Postgres integration tools and a cost-performance benchmark for cloud data warehouses.
This issue of *This Week in Rust* (2026‑08‑26) aggregates community news: official Rust announcements (maintainers‑in‑residence, next‑gen trait solver, supply‑chain attack on arrayref, function‑overloading experiment), a Mozilla JPEG‑XL tooling update, several observations (AI‑assisted C/C++ rewrites, enum‑to‑word speedup, compilation metadata shaving, driver state handling, async vs sync for a r…
Laravel Scalpel is a Laravel‑native scanner that looks for post‑deployment filesystem tampering – rogue PHP files, obfuscated backdoors, altered .htaccess/.user.ini, missing or mis‑configured .env, and diffs against a signed baseline. It ships with six built‑in scanners, baseline snapshot commands, fast vs strict hashing modes, CI‑friendly output (JSON, SARIF, GitHub annotations) and a ScanFinish…
