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

Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of The PHP Foundation

The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

🥧 PIE 1.3.0 is fresh out of the oven! 🎉

This release brings a bunch of new features and improvements, including:

- Support for PHP 8.5
- Non-interactive `pie install`
- Extension-defined library dependencies
- Improved `self-update` with channel support
- Enhancements to `pie info`
- Extension upgrade availability improvements
- Enabled immutable releases on GitHub
- Plus many more bugfixes & improvements!

https://github.com/php/pie/releases/tag/1.3.0

#php #phpc #phppie #thephpf #phpfoundation

Release 1.3.0 · php/pie

1.3.0 Total issues resolved: 12 Total pull requests resolved: 37 Total contributors: 14 bug 426: Remove timeouts on all process invocations except those potentially using sudo thanks to @asgrim ...

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How cool is the PHP 8.5 release features page? https://www.php.net/releases/8.5/en.php 😎 very modern and shiny #php #phpc #thephpfoundation #thephpf
PHP: PHP 8.5 Release Announcement

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.

Something very exciting I've been working on in PIE 🥧 and got a proof of concept working tonight. Looking forward to being able to reveal more soon 🤐 #phppie #thePHPF #php #phpc

🥧 #PIE news

Happy to announce that @thephpf PIE 1.2.0 is released, with several improvements, bugfixes, and updates :)

https://github.com/php/pie/releases/tag/1.2.0

#phppie #thephpf #phpc #phpextensions

Release 1.2.0 · php/pie

1.2.0 Total issues resolved: 9 Total pull requests resolved: 24 Total contributors: 11 dependencies,php 346: Dep updates and bump composer versions thanks to @asgrim 345: Bump composer/semver fr...

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I just released 🥧 PIE version 0.10.0, some bugfixes, updates, improvements to `pie install` for PHP projects, and new `pie install` support for PIE projects :) #php #phpc #phppie #ThePHPF

👀 https://github.com/php/pie/releases/tag/0.10.0

Release 0.10.0 · php/pie

0.10.0 Total issues resolved: 0 Total pull requests resolved: 9 Total contributors: 3 dependencies,php 230: Bump composer/composer from 2.8.6 to 2.8.8 thanks to @dependabot[bot] 229: Bump behat/...

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Looking forward to upcoming conferences! First up, I'm giving the first ever talk about 🥧 PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions) at @phpday then heading to @phptek 😁 hope to see some of you there!!

#ThePHPFoundation #ThePHPF #phpday #phpday25 #phptek #phptek25 #php #phpc #phpcommunity #phppie

🥧 I've just released PIE 0.9.0 :)

Now with self-update, some bugfixes, and finally a `pie install` command when you're in a PHP project to offer installs for missing extensions (globally)

https://github.com/php/pie/releases/tag/0.9.0

#phpPIE #phpc #php #ThePHPF #SovereignTechFund

Release 0.9.0 · php/pie

0.9.0 Total issues resolved: 0 Total pull requests resolved: 9 Total contributors: 2 bug 216: Fix INI symlinks being replaced with real files on uninstall thanks to @asgrim 215: Ignore case sens...

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Symfony Station Communiqué - 29 April 2022 | Symfony Station

Welcome to this week's Symfony Station Communiqué. It's your weekly review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities.