Ben RamseyElizabeth announces six ways the get involved in the work of @thephpf, rolling out over the rest of this year.
Closing out the day, @elizabeth shares what @thephpf is up to to keep PHP healthy, funded, and thriving.
github.com/ghostwriter[PHP's Real Problem Is Perception Lag]
If PHP had focused primarily on marketing instead of technical improvements over the last decade, people would simply accuse it of being lipstick on a bad language.
The reason PHP regained respect was because the language team spent years improving the actual language.
PHP's conservative evolution is exactly why millions of production systems still run smoothly decades later.
That work matters infinitely more than branding.
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π₯§ 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...
π₯§ 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 π https://github.com/php/pie/releases/tag/1.4.0-rc.1
The PHP FoundationWeβre excited to welcome @elizabeth as the new Executive Director of The PHP Foundation! π π
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 β https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/02/27/welcoming-elizabeth-barron-new-executive-director/
π₯§ PIE 1.3.0 is fresh out of the oven! π
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!
How cool is the PHP 8.5 release features page? https://www.php.net/releases/8.5/en.php π very modern and shiny #php #phpc #thephpfoundation #thephpf
