Last Month in PHP: 2016 February

From a KCPUG lightning talk given on 02 Mar 2016

PHP Updates

Security and bugfix updates to PHP were released in February. Upgrade if you have a version less than:

• 7.0.3
  • Added HTTP 451
• 5.6.18
  • Added HTTP 451
• 5.5.32

CMSes

Drupal released security updates. Upgrade!
WordPress released a security update. Upgrade!

• Drupal 8.0.4
• Drupal 7.4.3
• Drupal 6.3.8
  • Officially the last version of 6.x ever.
  • EOL on Feb 24
• WordPress 4.4.2
  • 2 Security fixes
  • 17 bug fixes

μFrameworks

Slim 3.2

• Support the hostOnly cookie flag
• Write to the PHP error log if displayErrorDetails is false to make it easier to find out what’s gone wrong!
• Support PHP 7+ errors in the same way that Exceptions are handled.

See: Slim Framework 3.2 release notes

Frameworks

Various frameworks had point releases. I’m not sure what changed, so I assume that these are bugfixes.

• Laravel 5.2.13
  • fixes a bug that can cause Mail::queue to send stale view data when using daemon queue workers.
• Symfony [3.0.3, 2.8.3, 2.7.10, 2.3.38]
• Zend Framework
  • No updates for ZF 2.5
  • Lots of work towards ZF 3 in Q3!
    • See: the ZF3 Roadmap

Laravel Homestead

• Homestead 5.2
  • No version change
  • Added support for MariaDB

PHP: The Right Way

• PHP on Windows:
  • Added a Windows setup resource (OpenServer)
  • Chris Tankersley’s blog post about which tools he uses in Windows
• Added an example of a boolean cast in an if-statement
• Added a good idea to keep in mind when committing configuration files
• A few grammar and word-choice updates.
  • Note: Every open-source project can use your help with documentation. What are you waiting for?

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