I’m grateful to @[email protected] for this gift. It’s a welcome addition to my herd and sincerely appreciated.
#phpc #elephpant #tideways
hello
wondering if someone in the #phpc community had any expertise in WAF (Web Application Firewall) technologies ?
Ideally looking for a #European cloud based solution..
I have found four of them that look promising, but have to admit lack the knowledge to really know:
https://www.myrasecurity.com/fr/
https://www.ubikasec.com/en/
https://baleen.cloud/
https://bunny.net/shield/
any thoughts on this ?
🥧 PIE 1.4.0 is now released!
- experimental executable version of PIE
- prompt to install missing system deps
- prompt to install missing build tools
- support for pre-packaged-binaries where extensions provide them
& bunch more fixes, improvements, and more...
🥧 I am excited about this upcoming PIE 1.4.0 ... read more about the key features here, and you can try the first RC now, if you dare 😁 https://github.com/php/pie/releases/tag/1.4.0-rc.1
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!
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/

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