04/13/2018
Every month for the last year at TrianglePHP we've been presenting a segment called "The Latest in PHP" where we look at new features, product and framework releases, and spotlight news articles. Not everyone in the community is as up-to-date as others, so this gives everyone a chance to see what's new before our main presentation.
The original idea for this came from Eric Poe which did something similar for the Kansas City PHP User Group.
Including this segment at our meetup has helped our group in many ways. First, as I mentioned, it gives all of the members an easy and quick, way to get up to date on latest news and changes since the last meetup. Second, it allows newer PHP community members to get a glimpse of what resources are available to them. Lastly, since the segments are usually only 10-15 minutes long, it gives an excellent opportunity for new speakers to get their feet wet talking to a group.
I'd love to see more meetup groups implement something similar to this and help the PHP community grow. You can visit our GitHub Repository for a general outline and presentation template. If your group starts presenting this segment, please tweet a picture and slidedeck to @TrianglePHP and me - we'd love to see how it goes!
VERSIONS
http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
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Latest: 7.1.2, 6.5.8
PHPUnit 5 has reached its End of Life on February 2, 2018 and no longer receives bug fixes
https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/wiki
5.6.[13-16]
optional()
helper@elseauth
and @elseguest
Blade directivesview:cache
commandor
operator with null-coalescing operatorSessionGuard::logoutOtherDevices()
methodiv
length in Encrypter::validPayload()
(5.5.40 also)https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases
2.7.x, 2.8.x, 3.4.x, 4.0.x
https://symfony.com/blog/category/releases
7.58, 8.3.9, 8.4.6, 8.5.1
highly critical security vulnerabilities
A remote code execution vulnerability exists within multiple subsystems of Drupal 7.x and 8.x. This potentially allows attackers to exploit multiple attack vectors on a Drupal site, which could result in the site being completely compromised.
https://www.drupal.org/psa-2018-001
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/releases
4.9.5
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/04/wordpress-4-9-5-security-and-maintenance-release/
2018.1[.1]
https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
1.22
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_22
DrupalCon Nashville April 9–13, Nashville, TN https://events.drupal.org/nashville2018
Longhorn PHP Conference April 19–21, Austin, TX https://www.longhornphp.com
PHP Serbia Conference May 25–27, Belgrade, Serbia https://conf2018.phpsrbija.rs/
php[tek] May 29–June 1, Atlanta, GA https://tek.phparch.com/
April 19
US How to Use Generators to Beat Memory Bloat By Korvin Szanto
Europe Mining Your Code for Efficient Documentation By Damien Seguy
All Things Open Oct 23-24, Raleigh, NC CFP Ends: April 24 https://allthingsopen.org/call-for-papers/
Texas Camp May 31–June 2, Austin, TX CFP Ends: April 19 https://2018.texascamp.org/submit-session
April 28-29 - WordCamp Raleigh https://2018.raleigh.wordcamp.org
Aug 16-17 - Southeast PHP (Nashville, TN) https://southeastphp.com
Oct 7-8 - NCDevCon http://ncdevcon.com
Oct 23-24 - All Things Open http://allthingsopen.org