Automattic is a platinum sponsor of the PHP Foundation and Anne McCarthy has joined the foundation’s board. Supporting other open source projects is something that Automattic does right, and it benefits us all.

PHP is the underlying language used with WordPress and using it is part of the project’s success. PHP-based hosting is easy to setup and relatively inexpensive.

If you are hosting sites then this technical article on PHP turning will be of interest.

The project is dropping the “beta” label on PHP version support. It created the wrong impression and was prompting some users and hosting providers to avoid updating to new versions.

Nice, PHP 8.5 was released on November 20th and WordPress 6.9 RC2 already has support for it.

PHP 8.5 is a major update of the PHP language, with new features including the URI extension, Pipe operator, and support for modifying properties while cloning.

FrankenPHP is a new high performance PHP server. Is it a big deal? Should we be expecting hosting providers to support it?

Jetbrains conducted a survey of PHP professionals. The results provide an interesting look at tools and trends. It was interesting to see WordPress reported in one of the questions.

Acorn is a project of Roots and provides a framework for integrating Laravel within WordPress.

There are some new features coming in PHP 8.4.