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PHP 8.1 will have Fibers 🚀🎉🐘. Fibers bring foundations for asynchronous programming with PHP. #phpthanks to @kelunik and @_trowski For their amazing on the RFC. Deailed: php.watch/versions/8.1/f… Implementation: github.com/amphp/ext-fiber

Security hardening for Composer @packagist projects #PHP php.watch/articles/compo…

🐞 @xdebug 3 was released a couple of weeks ago. @derickr did a great job by providing us: * youtube videos * upgrade path * updated docs #PHP #XDEBUG I wrote a summary on all of this. A tread! 🧵👇

We often take finished work by other productive people for granted. But we know every contribution requires work, patience and time. This is Superman of PHP ↓ Thank you @nikita_ppv 🙇 for your ongoing work on every version of @php_net and powerful, simple tools🎖❤️️amazing!

An in-depth article about PHP JIT, various benchmarks on web frameworks, computational functions, a comparison with other languages, and how JIT works #php #php8 @official_php php.watch/articles/jit-i…

@markusstaab Joys of copy-paste. Thanks a lot for this @markusstaab, I just updated the post.

Hey @phpwch . There are 2 small typos on php.watch/articles/resou… in the tables.. in the GD line its tated to be a CurlHandle

@Girgias @nikita_ppv @cmbecker69 Thank you so much for helping out with PHP 8 ♥️🐘.

PHP 8.0 is here!!! PHP 8 Thanks php.watch/articles/php80…

@official_php @heiglandreas PHP 8 Thanks 🐘♥️🐘♥️ 🐘♥️🐘♥️ 🐘♥️🐘♥️ 🐘♥️🐘♥️ php.watch/articles/php80…

📢 Look at this! PHP 8 is released. Whoop! 🐘 php.net/releases/8.0/e… 👏 Thanks to all the developers who have made this possible! 📷 Photo by @heiglandreas

A performance comparison between @xdebug version 2 and 3: php.watch/articles/xdebu… Thanks to @derickr for the amazing improvements in Xdebug 3.

New `xdebug_info` function in @Xdebug 3. php.watch/articles/xdebu…

Free private composer repositories with @gitlab's new Composer support in Package Repositories. php.watch/articles/compo…

`match` expression accepted for PHP 8.0 php.watch/versions/8.0/m…

@PHPRFCBot php.watch/versions/8.0/m… I covered the syntax and an in-depth comparison against switch.

#PHP RFC moved to Accepted Pending Implementation / Landing: Match expression v2 wiki.php.net/rfc/match_expr…

@carusogabriel Just try it with composer self-update --snapshot. There's an upgrade guide: github.com/composer/compo… There's also an article from @phpwch php.watch/articles/compo… And podcast: phptownhall.com/episode-74-com…

@vcclpv @BinaryKitten For the majority of WordPress target audience, it doesn't matter. WordPress developers are great at their craft, they serve their target audience well enough to have 30% of the whole web running WordPress.

PHP8.0 JIT in very promising for Async PHP. The gain is incredible, as latency under constant load of 20k req/s with 500 open TCP connections in single threaded mode is serves half of the requests under 80ms, while non JIT version crosses 1s barrier on first thousand requests.

Attributes in PHP 8: An in-depth guide php.watch/articles/php-a…