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Updates from the Foundation, our developers and the PHP ecosystem.
Describing the story behind how critical security vulnerabilities were found and fixed.
Where PHP security triage stands, the tools we use, and how to send a report we can act on
What the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications means for the people who maintain PHP tooling
This is the release announcement for PIE 1.5
The PHP Foundation has opened the application period for new contractors for 2027.
Welcoming bunny.net as a Foundation Silver Sponsor
Announcing the Community Events Coalition and why its important
A guide to correct floating-point and integer calculations in PHP
Daniel Scherzer is joining the Ecosystem Security Team
Across Europe, public administrations have already decided what their digital infrastructure runs on, and it is PHP
Announcement about the replacement of Roman Pronskiy with Brent Roose to the Foundation Board.
Announcing a new podcast designed to increase contributions to PHP.
A guide for PHP project maintainers, from the PHP Foundation Ecosystem Security Team
An introductory guide to the many ways you can contribute to PHP, both to the language and to the community.
Update of the progress made by the PHP Ambassador Group
Announcement about the addition of Anne McCarthy to the Foundation Board.
Announcement about the launch of the PHP Onboarding Initiative.
A report of Foundation contractor activities in Q2 of 2026.
Alexandre Daubois joins The PHP Foundation as a part-time security contractor.
TYPO3 has become a Silver Sponsor of The PHP Foundation.
Information about the criticality and details of providing support for PHP builds on Windows.
A first-month update on the PHP Foundation's ecosystem security work
We are excited to announce that we have scheduled the first meeting for the PHP Ambassador Program! This is the second Special Interest Group launched by The P…
I'm a backend developer, and PHP is my main language; it is also my favorite one. I've been developing in PHP since 2008, and today, when I start a web project,…
In April 2026, during the first weeks of my tenure as Executive Director, I conducted a listening tour with around 60 people from 18 countries spanning every pa…
PHP is powered by a global community of developers, maintainers, contributors, companies, and users. To better understand that community and the ecosystem aroun…
PHP has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, and The PHP Foundation has played a major role in contributing to the development and maintenance…
Executive Summary PHP turned 30 in 2025. With The PHP Foundation's support, the PHP project marked the year by shipping PHP 8.5. The PHP Foundation also launch…
The core mission of the PHP Foundation is to ensure the long-term prosperity of the PHP language. Today, your, or your company's, financial contributions primar…
This year, The PHP Foundation, in collaboration with PhpStorm, a JetBrains IDE, will release an official ecosystem report with data-driven insights into the cur…
Integrating Community Input Into Foundation Strategy Part 1: Feedback from the Community Oh my friends, we have so much to talk about. I’ve been with The PHP…
We are thrilled to announce that Matt Stauffer has agreed to join The PHP Foundation Board, where he will bring his decades of experience in the PHP ecosystem.…
I’m incredibly excited to be joining the PHP Foundation as the Executive Director and continuing the work that has been done under the leadership of Roman Prons…
We're excited to welcome Elizabeth Barron as the next Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, following a thorough process led by our search committee of Nils…
Starting January 2026, team.blue joined the PHP Foundation as a Gold Sponsor, reinforcing its long-term commitment to supporting the open-source technologies th…
PHP 8.5 is still warm, but the work to push PHP forward continues. The latest major feature for PHP 8.6 has just been approved: Partial Function Application (P…
As 2025 comes to a close, we at The PHP Foundation want to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported us this year. We firmly believe that our work on th…
We're opening the search for our next Executive Director, marking an important milestone in the continued growth and evolution of the PHP Foundation. After fou…
Over the last few weeks we ran a focused community contest to refresh the PHP 8.5 release page. Thank you to everyone who submitted, reviewed, voted, and discus…
Thanks to investment from the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA), a German government backed organization supporting open-source infrastructure, the PHP Foundation is …
URLs are a fundamental building block of the Web we rely on every day. Their familiarity makes them appear deceptively simple: Seemingly clearly delineated com…
Redesign php.net? We hear you. Let’s start small and ship something great: a refreshed PHP 8.5 release page. The 8.0-era page built with community contr…
The PHP Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to support, advance, and develop the PHP language. Current major sponsors include JetBrai…
We’re excited to share that Joe Watkins is joining the PHP Foundation as a contractor for the rest of 2025. Joe has helped establish the PHP Foundation in …
The PHP Foundation, Anthropic’s MCP team, and Symfony are collaborating on the official PHP SDK for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Our goal is a framework-ag…
One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a parameter. It's a feature found in most comp…
PHP 8.5, due out November of this year, will bring with it another long-sought-after feature: the pipe operator (|>). It's a small feature with huge potenti…
On June 8, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of the PHP language. Over time, PHP has become the most popular server-side programming language, now…
FrankenPHP, a modern high-performance PHP application server created by Kévin Dunglas and sponsored by Les-Tilleuls.coop, is now officially supported by the PHP…
At the PHP Foundation, we’re proud to be supported by companies that build amazing products and contribute back to the PHP ecosystem. Today we’d like to highlig…
The PHP Foundation is pleased to announce the completion of a comprehensive security audit of the PHP source code (php/php-src), commissioned by the Sovereign T…
We’re thrilled to announce that Passbolt has joined the PHP Foundation as a Silver sponsor! PHP powers over 77% of the web – including Passbolt’s collaborative …
Executive Summary As of early 2025, The PHP Foundation comprises 8 volunteer board members, an Executive Director sponsored by JetBrains, and 10 developers pai…
The PHP Foundation is thrilled to announce our community sponsorship of both Laracon EU and Laracon India! We believe in the power of in-person connections and …
As 2024 comes to a close, we at the PHP Foundation want to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported us this year. It’s been an incredible journey, and …
Wow. Can you believe it? Just three years (and one day) ago, PHP had no organization behind it. Only two people were being paid to work on the language that pow…
We are thrilled to announce that after a year of hard work, dedication, and collaboration, PHP 8.4 is officially here! Thanks to the tireless efforts of the PH…
We're thrilled to introduce the pre-release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) – github.com/php/pie! PIE aims to simplify managing PHP extensions by pro…
PHP 8.4 is coming on 21 November this year. It includes a host of new functionality, but the biggest, in more ways than one, is Property hooks. Given the exci…
The Web Services Tool (WST) is a command-line application developed to test PHP-FPM, commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF). Its primary goal is to facil…
The PHP Foundation is proud to announce our support for the Open Source Pledge initiative, launched by Sentry and its partners. This step addresses the sustaina…
Welcome back to the PHP Core Roundup series, we cover what's new and changing in PHP and provide an update on the recent proposals to change and discussions aro…
Hey there, PHP enthusiasts and tech leaders! It's that time of the year again when everyone's crunching numbers and deciding on budgets. We've got an opport…
The PHP Foundation is a non-profit organization, started in 2021 by Acquia, Automattic, Craft CMS, JetBrains, Laravel, PrestaShop, Private Packagist, Symfony, T…
<?= 'Hello world!'; Here are some updates we’d like to share with you. Generics Research Progress One of our most anticipated projects is the research int…
Generics have been on the list of wanted features for a long time by numerous PHP developers. The topic is often brought up in "What's New in PHP?" talks as wel…
The PHP Foundation, alongside leading open source organizations including the Apache Software Foundation, Blender Foundation, OpenSSL Software Foundation, Pytho…
Executive Summary At the beginning of 2024, The PHP Foundation is a collective of 9 volunteer board members, 1 full-time operations manager sponsored by JetBra…
Now in our third year, we're gearing up to grow our impact. This year, four more developers are joining the PHP Foundation to further advance PHP. Since April …
<?php echo 'Hello world!'; This post provides insights into The PHP Foundation's recent activities. My name is Roman Pronskiy. I’m employed by JetBrains…
PHP 8.3 is here! Bringing a handful of new features, performance and functionality improvements, and a healthy amount of deprecations, PHP 8.3 was rel…
Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup series! This is where we highlight and celebrate the improvements made to PHP during the month past by the PHP development team…
Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup series! This is post #17, where we highlight and celebrate the improvements made to PHP during the month past by the PHP develo…
Working on an open-source project which is used by millions of developers and which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world. Getting …
Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup series! This is post #16, where we highlight and celebrate the improvements made to PHP during the month past by the PHP develo…
Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup series! This is post #15, where we highlight and celebrate the improvements made to PHP during the month past by the PHP develo…
There have been numerous updates and enhancements to the PHP core over the past month, from thought-provoking RFCs to minor yet profound adjustments. Let's dive…
The PHP Core team has been as productive as ever this past month, bringing forth a robust collection of updates that promise to shape the future of PHP. From RF…
The PHP Foundation is a collective of PHP contributors, veterans, and companies that collaborate to ensure the long-term sustainability of the PHP programming l…
Welcome to the eleventh post in the PHP Core Roundup series. Just like the previous months, March was an eventful month with new RFCs, discussions, and plenty o…
<?php echo 'Hello world!'; It's been a while since our last update, so today we’d like to shed some light on what the PHP Foundation has been up to in recen…
Welcome back to the tenth in the PHP Core Roundup series. As February comes to end we have plenty of PHP developments to write about. February was a month full …
The first for the year 2023, and the ninth in the series, this episode of PHP Core Roundup is full of exciting new developments in PHP and about PHP 8.2, the la…
Welcome to the eighth issue of PHP Core Roundup series! This issue was supposed to bring the great news of PHP 8.2 release, but the PHP 8.2 release date was pus…
Executive Summary At the end of 2022, The PHP Foundation is a collective of 10 volunteer administrators and 6 part-time paid developers who make nearly ha…
Welcome to the seventh in the PHP Core Roundup series, where we summarize the latest improvements, bug fixes, proposals, and other developments in PHP. We are …
Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup, the sixth in the series. PHP Core Roundup summarizes the latest improvements, bug fixes, discussions, and proposals to PHP. …
Welcome to the fifth edition of PHP Core Roundup, a series of posts that round up updates and news on the latest improvements, discussions, bug fixes, and new f…
<?php echo 'Hello world!'; Last month, the PHP foundation members continued the work on PHP 8.2 release and more. We are prepared to give a few talks this a…
PHP Core Roundup is a series of posts where we make regular updates on improvements, fixes, and new features made to PHP by the PHP Foundation and other contrib…
<?php echo 'Hello world!'; This month PHP foundation staff continues to work on the PHP core and the development of the initiative as a whole. Read on to le…
Welcome back to the PHP Core Roundup series, where we make regular updates on the improvements made to PHP by the PHP Foundation and other contributors. In thi…
<?php echo 'Hello world!'; This time our regular update is short. Check the PHP Core Roundup series for a detailed development log. Interview with core dev…
Welcome back to round #2 of PHP Core Roundup, where we’ll make regular updates on the improvements made to PHP by the PHP Foundation and other contributors. In …
The initial group of sponsored developers has now been "at it" for a month, and we thought that you might be interested in who they are and what they work on. I got the opportunity to (virtually) sit down with Derick Rethans, George Peter Banyard, Ilija Tovilo, Jakub Zelenka, and Máté Kocsis for an interview.
Monthly updates to the PHP Foundation, April 2022
Welcome to the first PHP Roundup, where we'll make regular updates on the improvements made to PHP by the PHP Foundation and other contributors.
Monthly updates to the PHP Foundation, March 2022
Monthly updates to the PHP Foundation, January 2022