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Thanks to all our sponsors for supporting The PHP Foundation in 2025! Your support directly funds the people and projects moving PHP forward. Together we helped: - Ship PHP 8.5 - Release PIE 1.0 - Support FrankenPHP - Launch the PHP MCP SDK with Anthropic and Symfony - Secure a second Sovereign Tech Agency investment for the Streams layer rework …and much more across the PHP ecosystem In 2026 we want to continue this work, hire a dedicated Executive Director, and grow the core team. If your company relies on PHP, please consider sponsoring the foundation in 2026: https://lnkd.in/exMwm6cY

PHP 8.5 Released! 🎉 In this new release, we have: – URI Extension – Pipe Operator – Clone With – A new #[\NoDiscard] attribute – Closures and first-class callables in constant expressions – Persistent cURL share handles Read all about it: https://lnkd.in/eiW3cFk9

After four rewarding years as Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, I'll be stepping down in early 2026. I'm proud of what we've achieved: building the Foundation from the ground up, expanding our team, and strengthening collaboration across the PHP ecosystem. Official announcement: https://lnkd.in/e-QHDWcK If you're passionate about open source and excited about the future of PHP, we're looking for a new Executive Director to carry the mission forward. Thank you to everyone in the PHP community for the trust and collaboration over these years. I'll continue on the Foundation's Board and look forward to supporting what's next.

The results are in! The winner of the PHP 8.5 Release Page Design Contest is Nuno Guerra 🏆🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who submitted their ideas and participated in the voting, and to our prize sponsors JetBrains and Tomas Votruba for supporting this community initiative 💜 See the full results and next steps: https://lnkd.in/eeKjAF52

The world is evolving and so is PHP, it is time to improve Streams in PHP and if that peeked your interest, then look no further than what The PHP Foundation and Sovereign Tech Agency have in store for us!

The PHP Foundation application form for 2026 is now open! If you’re interested in contributing to PHP core development with Foundation support and meet the requirements, we encourage you to apply. More details and the form here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eP-rFMwm

Joe Watkins is joining The PHP Foundation as a contractor for the rest of 2025! Joe is a long-time PHP core contributor, creator of parallel and PCOV extensions, and recently released ORT – a blazing-fast ONNX runtime for PHP. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXNXb4kx

🚨 Warning to #PHP package maintainers: We did not email you to change your passwords & 2FA. Emails asking you to update your credentials are a phishing attempt. We had the phishing site & domain taken down. If you got the email and entered your credentials, please contact us. #phpc #composerphp

We’re excited to share that the official PHP MCP SDK is now in the works! 💫 The PHP Foundation has partnered with Anthropic’s MCP team and Symfony to build a framework-agnostic, production-ready SDK the entire PHP ecosystem can rely on. https://lnkd.in/ejN9K2s9 - Maintained by the Symfony team. - Joined by Kyrian Obikwelu, who brings his experience with MCP libraries. - Open for contributions from the community. ⭐️ Star the repository: https://lnkd.in/etEPQU5b

One of our PHP 8.5 Release Managers, Daniel Scherzer is presenting the latest and greatest coming later this year as an early Christmas present!