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  Community events are the lifeblood of the PHP ecosystem and how we build trust in an ever-changing world. We are very happy to announce the launch of the Community Events Coalition SIG to help keep these crucial pieces of our community thriving. Read more: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/09/28/kicking-off-the-community-events-coalition-sig/ #php #phpc #opensourceevents

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  Germany is spending €108 million to move its federal websites onto a TYPO3-based platform. The European Commission runs 770 sites on Drupal. Around 300,000 German federal users work on Nextcloud. All PHP. Across Europe, when governments say "digital sovereignty," what they're describing is very often a PHP application. @sebastian@phpc.social looks at where PHP runs in the public sector, why there is a funding gap, and three practical changes to procurement that could fix it. http...

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  We have a new addition to The PHP Foundation Governing Board: Anne McCarthy from Automattic. Anne brings a balanced mix of thoughtful empathy and deep technical knowledge and will bring tremendous insight to the Board. Welcome, Anne! Read more https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/08/04/anne-mccarthy-joins-the-board/👇 #php #automattic #wordpress #phpcommunity

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  If you want to help newcomers to the PHP language, our latest Special Interest Group might be just the thing for you. Announcing the PHP Onboarding Initiative! https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/08/03/kicking-off-the-php-onboarding-initiative/ #php #newcomerexperience #mentorship

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  In an effort to increase transparency about the things we work on, we are happy to start sharing quarterly progress reports with the community. 🚀 Read more: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/07/21/quarterly-report-q2-2026/ #php #phpfoundation

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  If you're curious about what our Ecosystem Security Team has been up to the past month, you're in luck! @edorian@phpc.social has provided an update in our recent blog post. https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/06/23/one-month-of-ecosystem-security-engineering/ #php #phpc #phpsecurity

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  In our latest blog post, Foundation contractor @shivammathur@phpc.social digs into the details of providing support for PHP builds on Windows and why this is such an important piece of the work we do. 🚀 https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/06/26/maintaining-php-build-infrastructure-for-windows-tooling-for-builds-and-security-updates/ #php #phpc #windows #security

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  Building a more accessible PHP ecosystem is something The PHP Foundation cares a great deal about. We are honored to share this post from guest blogger @menelion@dragonscave.space about what it's like to be a visually impaired PHP developer, learning and coding PHP. 💙 #php #accessibility #phpc https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/06/16/php-through-a-screen-reader-small-syntax-choices-that-matter/

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  Announcing the Ecosystem Security Team at The PHP Foundation ✨ We have a new role at The PHP Foundation, thanks to a grant from Alpha-Omega at the @linuxfoundation and filled by the amazing @edorian! This initiative is designed to improve security across the entire PHP ecosystem and to help maintainers in our community. We are incredibly excited to dig into this work! Learn more about this effort and how you can participate on our blog. 🔒 💪 #php #security https://thephp.foundation/blog/202...

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  Today we published our Impact and Transparency Report for 2025. We are incredibly grateful for our sponsors, partners, contractors, and individual financial contributors for without them, none of our work would be possible. We are also grateful for the PHP community and core contributors who consistently continue to show up and help make PHP better for all of us. We are all in this together! 💙 🐘 https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/05/27/impact-and-transparency-report-2025/ #php #phpcommunity #op...

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  Are you able to join us at #PHPverse on June 9? Join our Executive Director and keynoter Elizabeth Barron, along with a fantastic lineup of expert speakers (including Board member @naderman) This is a free virtual event that you won't want to miss! https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/05/28/phpverse-keynote/ #php #phpverse2026

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  Friends of The PHP Foundation! If you are considering attending PHP TEK but haven't registered yet, the kind folks at PHP Architect have afforded us a discount that we are permitted to share with you: https://ti.to/phptek/phptek-2026/discount/foundation Several Foundation members will be attending, so come say hello! #php #phpc

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  Note: We have edited yesterday's post to include a link to the markdown version of the slide content for better accessibility, better viewing on mobile devices, and easier translation. You can find the Markdown link here: https://github.com/ThePHPF/talks/blob/main/board-presentations/PHP%20Community%20Feedback%20Summary%20-%20April%202026.md

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  Exciting news – we’re preparing a new report on the state of PHP! 🐘 But first, what would you like to know about the PHP ecosystem? Help us shape the survey that will inform the report. Share your suggested questions and vote on others by April 28 👇 https://app.sli.do/event/3NShya1PmdgByuuufXoqpF You can also read more on our blog: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/04/22/announcing-plans-for-a-php-ecosystem-survey/

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  The PHP Foundation wants to publicly share our support for the petition that aims to classify open source contributions as officially recognized volunteer work in Germany. This is a very important distinction for all our open source friends and community members living in Germany, but anyone can sign the petition. It would also be appreciated if you want to spread the word and help us help the organizers reach the 30,000 signatures required to bring it to quorum. 🙏 🐘 🚀 https://www.ehrenamt-ope...

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  Our Executive Director, Elizabeth Barron, has been listening to your feedback about the PHP ecosystem to help inform The PHP Foundation's 2026-2027 strategy. She shares what she's learned in our latest blog post. Exciting opportunities await! ✨ 🚀 https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/04/16/integrating-community-feedback-into-foundation-strategy-part1/ #php #phpcommunity #thephpfoundation

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  We now have a Foundation channel on the phpc Discord to make it easier to interact with us 🎉 This was a collaborative decision with the phpc mods to open a channel there, as opposed to running a separate Foundation server and potentially further fragmenting the community channels. (And just for full transparency, we have offered to chip in when/if needed to defray the costs of running the server. 💙) You can find a link to the phpc Discord here https://phpc.chat/. Come say hi! #phpc #php

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  We are very happy to welcome Matt Stauffer as the newest Board member for The PHP Foundation! Matt brings decades of experience and we are grateful for his insight as we move forward. Welcome, Matt! 🤩 🐘 🚀 Read more: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/03/25/welcoming-matt-stauffer-to-the-php-foundation-board/ #php #thephpfoundation #phpc

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  Joe Watkins is joining the PHP Foundation as a contractor for the rest of 2025! Joe is a long-time PHP core contributor, creator of parallel and PCOV extensions, and recently released ORT – a blazing-fast ONNX runtime for PHP. 👉 https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/09/25/joe-watkins/

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  The PHP Foundation application form for 2026 is now open! If you’re interested in contributing to PHP core development with Foundation support and meet the requirements, we encourage you to apply. More details and the form here: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/09/30/application-form-2026/

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  Say goodbye to parse_url() headaches! 🥳 PHP 8.5 is introducing a new URI Extension with standards-compliant (RFC 3986 & WHATWG) and secure URL parsing. It provides a clean API and lets you easily modify URI components. Learn more 👇 https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/10/10/php-85-uri-extension/

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  Help design the PHP 8.5 release page and win $1,000 🏆 Submit your mockups or prototypes for a modern, fast, clean release page. 🗓 Deadline: Oct 22 👉 Details: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/10/01/design-contest/ Sponsored by JetBrains | Powered by the PHP community 💜

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  ⏰ Last call! We’re wrapping up the PHP 8.5 release page design contest, this is your last chance to take part! 👉 https://phpc.social/@thephpf/115299577049317920

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  🗳️ Voting for the PHP 8.5 Release Page Contest is live! Check out the shortlisted designs and vote for your favorite with 👍 on GitHub: https://github.com/php/web-php/issues/1563 Voting closes Nov 2 — winner announced Nov 4 💜

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  PHP Streams are getting a long-awaited upgrade 🚀 Thanks to an investment from Germany's @sovtechfund the PHP Foundation is improving async I/O, error handling, networking, and TLS for modern workloads. Read more: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/10/30/php-streams-evolution/

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  The results are in! The winner of the PHP 8.5 Release Page Design Contest is Nuno Guerra 🏆🎉 Big thanks to everyone who submitted their ideas, and to PhpStorm and Rector for sponsoring the prizes 🙌 See the full results and next steps: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/11/05/design-contest-results/

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  The PHP Foundation is Seeking a New Executive Director! 🐘💜 We're asking the PHP community to help find the right person for this role. If you know someone who would be an excellent fit, please encourage them to apply or reach out to us directly. https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/11/10/seeking-new-executive-director/ #php #phpc #opensource

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  Thanks to all our sponsors for supporting The PHP Foundation in 2025! Together we helped ship PHP 8.5, release PIE 1.0, support FrankenPHP, launch the PHP MCP SDK, secure a second STA investment for Streams, and much more. Please consider sponsoring PHP in 2026: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/02/can-we-count-on-you-in-2026/

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  PHP 8.6 kicks off with partial function application 💫 https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/08/partial-application/

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  We’re excited to welcome @elizabeth as the new Executive Director of The PHP Foundation! 🐘 💜 Elizabeth Barron brings deep PHP community roots, open-source governance experience from GitHub and CHAOSS, and a passion for making PHP thrive for decades to come. Read more → https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/02/27/welcoming-elizabeth-barron-new-executive-director/ #php #phpc #thephpf #opensource #foundation