News

Apr 10, 2025

News

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Apr 03, 2025

News

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Mar 31, 2025

Report

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Jan 30, 2025

News

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Dec 23, 2024

News

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Nov 22, 2024

News

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Nov 21, 2024

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

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! ...

Nov 19, 2024

News

By James Titcumb

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...

Nov 06, 2024

Stories

By Larry Garfield

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...

Oct 21, 2024

News

By Jakub Zelenka

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 ...

Oct 08, 2024

News

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Oct 02, 2024

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

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...

Sep 30, 2024

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

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 ...

Sep 17, 2024

Team

By Roman Pronskiy, Nils Adermann

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...

Sep 12, 2024

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

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 ...

Aug 19, 2024

News

By Arnaud Le Blanc, Derick Rethans, Larry Garfield

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...

Apr 02, 2024

News

By Roman Pronskiy

Joining Forces for Open Source Cybersecurity Standards

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

Feb 26, 2024

Report

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Jan 03, 2024

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Nov 27, 2023

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

PHP Foundation Update, November 2023

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

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...

Nov 01, 2023

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

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...

Oct 01, 2023

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

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...

Sep 06, 2023

Team

By Roman Pronskiy, Nils Adermann

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 ...

Sep 01, 2023

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

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...

Aug 01, 2023

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

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...

Jun 29, 2023

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne, Sergey Panteleev

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...

Jun 06, 2023

Roundup

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

May 02, 2023

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

PHP Core Roundup #12

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

Apr 01, 2023

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

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 ...

Mar 31, 2023

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Mar 01, 2023

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

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...

Jan 30, 2023

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

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...

Dec 02, 2022

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

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...

Nov 22, 2022

Report

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Nov 05, 2022

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

PHP Core Roundup #7

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

Sep 30, 2022

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

PHP Core Roundup #6

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

Aug 31, 2022

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

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...

Aug 04, 2022

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Jul 28, 2022

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

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...

Jul 04, 2022

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

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 ...

Jun 30, 2022

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

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...

Jun 01, 2022

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

May 30, 2022

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

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...

May 06, 2022

Interview

By Sebastian Bergmann

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 ...

May 02, 2022

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

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...

Apr 28, 2022

Roundup

By Ayesh Karunaratne

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...

Mar 31, 2022

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

The PHP Foundation Update, March 2022

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

Jan 21, 2022

Update

By Roman Pronskiy

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...