Just released a new minor version of league/period. It:
- drops support for PHP8.1
- add support for PHP8.6 Time\Duration.
And there's always that small bug fixe in between
Happy upgrading and coding!
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@scott.keck-warren.com@dseguy has a fun project to use all the new #php86 features in a script. This is my part. It was based on one of my favorite subjects (state machines), and I had to force a bunch of the new features. :-)
@scott.keck-warren.com#[\Override] landed for methods in PHP 8.3, and PHP 8.6 extends it to class constants. Rename the parent's constant, and PHP throws an error.
https://www.phparch.com/2026/09/stop-writing-php-like-this-8-6-fixes-it/
@projektgopher.comPHP's next time class marks a moment and leaves telling the time to a clock. The regex RFC's callback question is settled, a closure-as-entry-point idea lasted a day, and 8.6 is frozen.
12 stories, about 12 minutes. New one every week.
@scott.keck-warren.comPHP 8.6 deprecates is_integer(), is_long(), is_double(), and doubleval(). I grepped my app and found about 150 of them, which was a fun surprise. What's your count?
https://www.phparch.com/2026/09/stop-writing-php-like-this-8-6-fixes-it/
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@gbti.bsky.socialWhat's New in PHP 8.6 gbti.network/shares/gbtil... #php #Php86 #devops #gbti
@projektgopher.comA PHP RFC went to a vote Tuesday, was winning 4 to 1, and its author closed it inside the hour — over what the one no vote said. Also: the array_str_contains benchmark came back slower than a foreach loop.
10 stories, ~10 min.
https://youtu.be/flBkw2Rf7xE
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@michabbb.bsky.social🐘 #PHP 8.6 ships November 19, 2026. Beta now, feature freeze September 22, RC1 September 24 #php86 #webdev #opensource 🧵👇
@thedroptimes.bsky.socialPHP 8.6 Beta 3 is the final scheduled beta before release candidates begin. Drupal core is already testing against 8.6, but it is not yet listed as supported for Drupal 12 production sites.
@projektgopher.comA PHP RFC went to a vote Friday. By Sunday night its author had pulled it, over one no vote from the person who wrote the policy it broke. What's left: when a regex fails, is that your bug, or something you catch?
11 stories, ~13 min.
https://youtu.be/AoMmbSOknmw
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