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Published on Oct 14, 2026 by Alexandre Daubois

How the PHP Security Team Handles Your Reports

If you've ever sent a security report to PHP and then refreshed the advisory page every morning for three weeks, hi, thi...

Published on Oct 08, 2026 by Sebastian Bergmann

Security Sigs

Your Tool Has a New Reader

Every PHP tool that prints to a terminal now has two readers, and most of us have only been writing for one of them. Th...

Published on Oct 07, 2026 by James Titcumb

News Pie

PIE 1.5 Released

The PIE team is pleased to announce the release of the PHP Installer for Extensions 1.5 series, which has been in the wo...

Published on Sep 30, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

News

2027 Applications for Contractors are Open

As we have done in past years, The PHP Foundation is opening applications for contractors for 2027. Foundation contracto...

Published on Sep 29, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Sponsors News

Meet bunny.net: A PHP Foundation Sponsor supporting the language that powers the web it delivers

Starting June 2026, bunny.net joined the PHP Foundation as a Silver Sponsor, reinforcing its commitment to the open-sour...

Published on Sep 28, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Sigs

Kicking Off the Community Events Coalition Special Interest Group

Community events are the lifeblood of the PHP ecosystem. They're where people come to learn from each other, meet new pe...

Published on Sep 11, 2026 by Weilin Du

Stories

How to Calculate 0.1 Plus 0.2 Correctly in PHP?

The PHP Foundation thanks guest author Weilin Du for this post! Quick quiz before you read: <?php var_dump(0.1 + ...

Published on Sep 09, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Team News

Welcoming Daniel Scherzer to the Ecosystem Security Team

When the Ecosystem Security Team was established with funding from the Alpha-Omega “Security Engineer in Residence” gran...

Published on Sep 02, 2026 by Sebastian Bergmann

Stories

Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP

Germany is spending €108 million to move its federal websites onto a PHP application. The money is the budget for the e...

Published on Sep 01, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Team News

Roman Pronskiy Leaves The PHP Foundation Board and Brent Roose Joins

The PHP Foundation is excited to announce the addition of Brent Roose from JetBrains to the Foundation's Board of Direct...

Published on Aug 31, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Podcast Community

Join Us for The PHP Foundation Community Hour

Here at The PHP Foundation, we are continuously looking for ways in which we can increase our connections with the PHP c...

Published on Aug 19, 2026 by Sebastian Bergmann

Security Sigs

So You Received a Security Report. Now What?

A guide for PHP project maintainers, from the PHP Foundation Ecosystem Security Team You maintain a PHP project. Som...

Published on Aug 17, 2026 by Matt Stauffer

Contributing Community

How to Contribute to PHP

PHP has powered a huge portion of the web for a long time now. It's launched untold numbers of careers and businesses, a...

Published on Aug 13, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Sigs Update

PHP Ambassadors: Six Weeks In

When we launched the PHP Ambassador Program on June 19, 2026, we honestly didn’t know what to expect. We knew the need f...

Published on Aug 04, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Team News

Anne McCarthy Joins The PHP Foundation Board

The PHP Foundation Governing Board consists of a variety of folks from across the PHP ecosystem that share a vested inte...

Published on Aug 03, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Sigs Onboarding

Kicking off the PHP Onboarding Initiative Special Interest Group

One of the most common pieces of feedback we hear from the PHP community is that the newcomer experience could use some ...

Published on Jul 21, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Team Updates

Quarterly Progress Report - Q2 2026

Our team of core developers works very hard to strengthen and improve the PHP language. In an effort to improve the way ...

Published on Jul 14, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Team News

Welcoming Alexandre Daubois to The PHP Foundation

As you know, the main objective of The PHP Foundation’s mission is the sustainability of the PHP language, and a large p...

Published on Jul 01, 2026 by Ben Marks

Sponsors News

Meet TYPO3: Supporting the Open-Source Foundation of Its Ecosystem

TYPO3 has joined the PHP Foundation as a Silver Sponsor, extending its commitment to the open-source technologies and co...

Published on Jun 26, 2026 by Shivam Mathur

Windows Security

Maintaining PHP Build infrastructure for Windows: Tooling for builds and security updates

Most PHP developers never think about how PHP is built. They download it or install it using a command or a pre-built im...

Published on Jun 23, 2026 by Volker Dusch

Security Sigs

One Month of Ecosystem Security Engineering

Last month I shared with you that the PHP Foundation secured a grant by Alpha-Omega through the Linux Foundation to help...

Published on Jun 19, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Ambassadors Sigs

The PHP Ambassador Program is Open

We are excited to announce that we have scheduled the first meeting for the PHP Ambassador Program! This is the second ...

Published on Jun 16, 2026 by André Polykanine

Accessibility

PHP Through a Screen Reader: Small Syntax Choices That Matter

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...

Published on Jun 11, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Strategy

Integrating Community Feedback into Foundation Strategy Part 2

In April 2026, during the first weeks of my tenure as Executive Director, I conducted a listening tour with around 60 pe...

Published on Jun 09, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Survey

Help Shape the Future of PHP: Take the State of PHP Survey

PHP is powered by a global community of developers, maintainers, contributors, companies, and users. To better understan...

Published on May 28, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Conference

The PHP Foundation’s Elizabeth Barron to keynote JetBrains PHPverse 2026

PHP has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, and The PHP Foundation has played a major role in contrib...

Published on May 27, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Report

The PHP Foundation Impact and Transparency Report 2025

Executive Summary PHP turned 30 in 2025. With The PHP Foundation's support, the PHP project marked the year by shipping...

Published on May 18, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Security Team

Announcing the Ecosystem Security Team at The PHP Foundation

The core mission of the PHP Foundation is to ensure the long-term prosperity of the PHP language. Today, your, or your c...

Published on Apr 22, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Survey

Announcing Plans for a PHP Ecosystem Survey and Report

This year, The PHP Foundation, in collaboration with PhpStorm, a JetBrains IDE, will release an official ecosystem repor...

Published on Apr 16, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Strategy

Integrating Community Feedback into Foundation Strategy Part 1

Integrating Community Input Into Foundation Strategy Part 1: Feedback from the Community Oh my friends, we have so muc...

Published on Mar 27, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

News Board

Welcoming Matt Stauffer to The PHP Foundation Board

We are thrilled to announce that Matt Stauffer has agreed to join The PHP Foundation Board, where he will bring his dec...

Published on Mar 06, 2026 by Elizabeth Barron

Team

Working Together on the Future of PHP

I’m incredibly excited to be joining the PHP Foundation as the Executive Director and continuing the work that has been ...

Published on Feb 27, 2026 by The PHP Foundation

News

Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of The PHP Foundation

We're excited to welcome Elizabeth Barron as the next Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, following a thorough pro...

Published on Jan 26, 2026 by Roman Pronskiy

News Sponsors

Meet team.blue: A PHP Foundation Sponsor supporting the language at the core of its ecosystem

Starting January 2026, team.blue joined the PHP Foundation as a Gold Sponsor, reinforcing its long-term commitment to su...

Published on Dec 08, 2025 by Larry Garfield

Stories

PHP 8.6 kicks off with partial function application

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 a...

Published on Dec 02, 2025 by Benjamin Eberlei

News

Thank you for supporting The PHP Foundation in 2025! Can we count on you in 2026?

As 2025 comes to a close, we at The PHP Foundation want to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported us this yea...

Published on Nov 10, 2025 by Nils Adermann

News

The PHP Foundation is Seeking a New Executive Director

We're opening the search for our next Executive Director, marking an important milestone in the continued growth and evo...

Published on Nov 05, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

News

Design Contest Results and Lessons Learned

Over the last few weeks we ran a focused community contest to refresh the PHP 8.5 release page. Thank you to everyone wh...

Published on Oct 30, 2025 by Jakub Zelenka

Development

Evolving PHP Streams for Async, Security, and Performance

Thanks to investment from the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA), a German government backed organization supporting open-sourc...

Published on Oct 10, 2025 by Tim Düsterhus

Stories

PHP’s New URI Extension: An Open Source Success Story

URLs are a fundamental building block of the Web we rely on every day. Their familiarity makes them appear deceptively ...

Published on Oct 01, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

News

Call for Designs: Refresh the PHP 8.5 Release Page

Redesign php.net? We hear you. Let’s start small and ship something great: a refreshed PHP 8.5 release page. The...

Published on Sep 30, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

Team

The PHP Foundation application form for 2026 is now open

The PHP Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to support, advance, and develop the PHP language. ...

Published on Sep 25, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy, Joe Watkins

News

Welcoming Joe Watkins as a PHP Foundation Developer

We’re excited to share that Joe Watkins is joining the PHP Foundation as a contractor for the rest of 2025. Joe has...

Published on Sep 05, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

News

Announcing the Official PHP SDK for MCP

The PHP Foundation, Anthropic’s MCP team, and Symfony are collaborating on the official PHP SDK for the Model Context Pr...

Published on Aug 04, 2025 by Larry Garfield, Gina Peter Banyard

Stories

Compile time generics: yay or nay?

One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a param...

Published on Jul 11, 2025 by Larry Garfield

Stories

PHP 8.5 Adds Pipe Operator: What it means

PHP 8.5, due out November of this year, will bring with it another long-sought-after feature: the pipe operator (|>)....

Published on Jun 08, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

News

30 years of PHP: FrankenPHP is now part of the PHP organisation

On June 8, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf released the first version of the PHP language. Over time, PHP has become the most popul...

Published on May 15, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

News

FrankenPHP Is Now Officially Supported by The PHP Foundation

FrankenPHP, a modern high-performance PHP application server created by Kévin Dunglas and sponsored by Les-Tilleuls.coop...

Published on May 09, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

News Sponsors

Meet Manychat: A PHP Foundation Sponsor Sharing Their PHP Scaling Journey

At the PHP Foundation, we’re proud to be supported by companies that build amazing products and contribute back to the P...

Published on Apr 10, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

News

PHP Core Security Audit Results

The PHP Foundation is pleased to announce the completion of a comprehensive security audit of the PHP source code (php/p...

Published on Apr 03, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

News Sponsors

Welcoming Passbolt to the PHP Foundation

We’re thrilled to announce that Passbolt has joined the PHP Foundation as a Silver sponsor! PHP powers over 77% of the w...

Published on Mar 31, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

Report

The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 2024

Executive Summary As of early 2025, The PHP Foundation comprises 8 volunteer board members, an Executive Director spons...

Published on Jan 30, 2025 by Roman Pronskiy

News

Proud to Be Community Sponsors of Laracon EU and Laracon India

The PHP Foundation is thrilled to announce our community sponsorship of both Laracon EU and Laracon India! We believe in...

Published on Dec 23, 2024 by Roman Pronskiy

News

Happy Holidays from The PHP Foundation!

As 2024 comes to a close, we at the PHP Foundation want to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported us this yea...

Published on Nov 22, 2024 by Roman Pronskiy

News

The PHP Foundation Turns Three!

Wow. Can you believe it? Just three years (and one day) ago, PHP had no organization behind it. Only two people were bei...

Published on Nov 21, 2024 by Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #20: PHP 8.4 is Released!

We are thrilled to announce that after a year of hard work, dedication, and collaboration, PHP 8.4 is officially here! ...

Published on Nov 19, 2024 by James Titcumb

News

Announcing the Pre-Release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE)

We're thrilled to introduce the pre-release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) – github.com/php/pie! PIE aims to...

Published on Nov 06, 2024 by Larry Garfield

Stories

PHP 8.4: How Property Hooks Happened

PHP 8.4 is coming on 21 November this year. It includes a host of new functionality, but the biggest, in more ways than...

Published on Oct 21, 2024 by Jakub Zelenka

News

Introducing Web Services Tool for PHP-FPM

The Web Services Tool (WST) is a command-line application developed to test PHP-FPM, commissioned by the Sovereign Tech ...

Published on Oct 08, 2024 by Roman Pronskiy

News

The PHP Foundation Supports The Open Source Pledge

The PHP Foundation is proud to announce our support for the Open Source Pledge initiative, launched by Sentry and its pa...

Published on Oct 02, 2024 by Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #19

Welcome back to the PHP Core Roundup series, we cover what's new and changing in PHP and provide an update on the recent...

Published on Sep 30, 2024 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

The PHP Foundation Calls for Sponsors: Help Shape the Future of PHP

Hey there, PHP enthusiasts and tech leaders! It's that time of the year again when everyone's crunching numbers and ...

Published on Sep 17, 2024 by Roman Pronskiy, Nils Adermann

Team

The PHP Foundation application form for 2025 is now open

The PHP Foundation is a non-profit organization, started in 2021 by Acquia, Automattic, Craft CMS, JetBrains, Laravel, P...

Published on Sep 12, 2024 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

PHP Foundation Update, September 2024

<?= 'Hello world!'; Here are some updates we’d like to share with you. Generics Research Progress One of our most ...

Published on Aug 19, 2024 by Arnaud Le Blanc, Derick Rethans, Larry Garfield

News

State of Generics and Collections

Generics have been on the list of wanted features for a long time by numerous PHP developers. The topic is often brought...

Published on Apr 02, 2024 by Roman Pronskiy

News

Joining Forces for Open Source Cybersecurity Standards

The PHP Foundation, alongside leading open source organizations including the Apache Software Foundation, Blender Founda...

Published on Feb 26, 2024 by Roman Pronskiy

Report

The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 2023

Executive Summary At the beginning of 2024, The PHP Foundation is a collective of 9 volunteer board members, 1 full-tim...

Published on Jan 03, 2024 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

The PHP Foundation Team Update 2024

Now in our third year, we're gearing up to grow our impact. This year, four more developers are joining the PHP Foundati...

Published on Nov 27, 2023 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

PHP Foundation Update, November 2023

<?php echo 'Hello world!'; This post provides insights into The PHP Foundation's recent activities. My name is R...

Published on Nov 23, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

PHP 8.3 Released!

PHP 8.3 is here! Bringing a handful of new features, performance and functionality improvements, and a healthy...

Published on Nov 01, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #18

Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup series! This is where we highlight and celebrate the improvements made to PHP during th...

Published on Oct 01, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #17

Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup series! This is post #17, where we highlight and celebrate the improvements made to PHP...

Published on Sep 06, 2023 by Roman Pronskiy, Nils Adermann

Team

We Are Looking for Developers to Join the PHP Foundation

Working on an open-source project which is used by millions of developers and which is trusted by hundreds of thousands ...

Published on Sep 01, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #16

Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup series! This is post #16, where we highlight and celebrate the improvements made to PHP...

Published on Aug 01, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #15

Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup series! This is post #15, where we highlight and celebrate the improvements made to PHP...

Published on Jun 29, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #14

There have been numerous updates and enhancements to the PHP core over the past month, from thought-provoking RFCs to mi...

Published on Jun 06, 2023 by Roman Pronskiy

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #13

The PHP Core team has been as productive as ever this past month, bringing forth a robust collection of updates that pro...

Published on May 02, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #12

The PHP Foundation is a collective of PHP contributors, veterans, and companies that collaborate to ensure the long-term...

Published on Apr 01, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #11

Welcome to the eleventh post in the PHP Core Roundup series. Just like the previous months, March was an eventful month ...

Published on Mar 31, 2023 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

PHP Foundation Update, March 2023

<?php echo 'Hello world!'; It's been a while since our last update, so today we’d like to shed some light on what th...

Published on Mar 01, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #10

Welcome back to the tenth in the PHP Core Roundup series. As February comes to end we have plenty of PHP developments to...

Published on Jan 30, 2023 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #9

The first for the year 2023, and the ninth in the series, this episode of PHP Core Roundup is full of exciting new devel...

Published on Dec 02, 2022 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #8

Welcome to the eighth issue of PHP Core Roundup series! This issue was supposed to bring the great news of PHP 8.2 relea...

Published on Nov 22, 2022 by Roman Pronskiy

Report

The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 2022

Executive Summary At the end of 2022, The PHP Foundation is a collective of 10 volunteer administrators and 6 part...

Published on Nov 05, 2022 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #7

Welcome to the seventh in the PHP Core Roundup series, where we summarize the latest improvements, bug fixes, proposals,...

Published on Sep 30, 2022 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #6

Welcome back to PHP Core Roundup, the sixth in the series. PHP Core Roundup summarizes the latest improvements, bug fixe...

Published on Aug 31, 2022 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #5

Welcome to the fifth edition of PHP Core Roundup, a series of posts that round up updates and news on the latest improve...

Published on Aug 04, 2022 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

PHP Foundation Update, July 2022

<?php echo 'Hello world!'; Last month, the PHP foundation members continued the work on PHP 8.2 release and more. We...

Published on Jul 28, 2022 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #4

PHP Core Roundup is a series of posts where we make regular updates on improvements, fixes, and new features made to PHP...

Published on Jul 04, 2022 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

PHP Foundation Update, June 2022

<?php echo 'Hello world!'; This month PHP foundation staff continues to work on the PHP core and the development of ...

Published on Jun 30, 2022 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #3

Welcome back to the PHP Core Roundup series, where we make regular updates on the improvements made to PHP by the PHP Fo...

Published on Jun 01, 2022 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

PHP Foundation Update, May 2022

<?php echo 'Hello world!'; This time our regular update is short. Check the PHP Core Roundup series for a detailed d...

Published on May 30, 2022 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Core Roundup #2

Welcome back to round #2 of PHP Core Roundup, where we’ll make regular updates on the improvements made to PHP by the PH...

Published on May 06, 2022 by Sebastian Bergmann

Interview

Interview with Core Developers

The initial group of sponsored developers has now been "at it" for a month, and we thought that you might be interested ...

Published on May 02, 2022 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

PHP Foundation Update, April 2022

<?php echo 'Hello world!'; We’re off by two but still happy to bring you an update from the foundation. It's been a...

Published on Apr 28, 2022 by Ayesh Karunaratne

Roundup

PHP Roundup #1

Welcome to the first PHP Roundup, where we’ll make regular updates on the improvements made to PHP by the PHP Foundation...

Published on Mar 31, 2022 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

The PHP Foundation Update, March 2022

<?php echo 'Hello world!'; We promised to publish monthly updates, but something everything went wrong in February. ...

Published on Jan 21, 2022 by Roman Pronskiy

Update

The PHP Foundation Update, January 2022

<?php echo 'Hello world!'; In November, the PHP Foundation was launched publicly and we’ve seen enormous support fro...