The PHP Foundation

Working Together on the Future of PHP The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

For those who don't know our new Executive Director, Elizabeth Barron, she's written an introductory post on The PHP Foundation Blog that shares a bit about her background, her vision for the future, and how you can share your own PHP thoughts with her.

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Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of The PHP Foundation The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

We’re excited to welcome Elizabeth Barron as the new Executive Director of The PHP Foundation! 🐘 💜

Elizabeth brings PHP community roots, open-source governance experience from GitHub & CHAOSS, and a passion for making PHP thrive for decades to come.

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team.blue becomes a Sponsor of the PHP Foundation team.blue announces its commitment as a Gold Sponsor of the PHP Foundation starting from January 2026, supporting one of the world's most widely used programming languages.

🏆 Welcome team.blue as a Gold Sponsor of the PHP Foundation!

PHP powers major parts of team.blue’s hosting + WordPress ecosystem, and this sponsorship helps keep PHP secure, stable, and moving forward!press.team.blue/259920-team-...n/

Proud to announce we just renewed our annual $18,000 sponsorship for the The PHP Foundation!

Check out this summary on the work completed in 2025. So much more could be accomplished, if all businesses using PHP contributed. Sign up as a sponsor and help moving PHP forward!

PHP 8.6 kicks off with partial function application 💫

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Thank you for supporting The PHP Foundation in 2025! Can we count on you in 2026? The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

Thanks to our sponsors for supporting The PHP Foundation in 2025!

Together we helped ship PHP 8.5, released PIE 1.0, supported FrankenPHP, launched the PHP MCP SDK, secured a 2nd STA investment for Streams, and much more.

Please consider sponsoring PHP in 2026 🙏💜

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Strengthening PHP Supply Chain Security with a Transparency Log for Packagist.org The release of Composer 2.9 this week introduced new security features on the Composer CLI client, which were funded by Private Packagist through service subscriptions. But in parallel, we are working...

After Composer 2.9 CLI security improvements, we're working on a transparency log for Packagist to strengthen PHP supply chain security, funded by the @sovereign.tech with help of the @thephpf.bsky.social and Private Packagist. Details at blog.packagist.com/strengthenin... #php #phpc #composerphp

The PHP Foundation is Seeking a New Executive Director The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

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.

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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:
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Evolving PHP Streams for Async, Security, and Performance The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

PHP Streams are getting a long-awaited upgrade 🚀

Thanks to an investment from Germany's @sovereign.tech the PHP Foundation is improving async I/O, error handling, networking, and TLS for modern workloads.

Read more: thephp.foundation/blog/2025/10...

🗳️ [VOTING] PHP 8.5 Release Page Design Contest · Issue #1563 · php/web-php A huge thank you to everyone who submitted their designs! Together with the jury we carefully reviewed all entries and selected a shortlist. Our main criteria were how well the task was understood,...

🗳️ Voting for the PHP 8.5 Release Page Contest is live!

Check out the shortlisted designs and vote for your favorite with 👍 on GitHub:

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Voting closes Nov 2 — winner announced Nov 4 💜

PHP’s New URI Extension: An Open Source Success Story The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

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 👇

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The PHP Foundation application form for 2026 is now open The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

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:
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Together with PyPI, Maven Central, cratesio and other major package registries we signed a statement on sustainable open source infrastructure.
3B+ installs/month and evolving #composerphp and packagist.org requires sharing the costs.
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PHP Core Security Audit Results The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

We are pleased to announce the completion of security audit of PHP core!
Executed by @quarkslab.bsky.social in partnership with @ostifofficial.bsky.social and commissioned by the @sovereign.tech.

Learn more: thephp.foundation/blog/2025/04...

Welcoming Passbolt to the PHP Foundation The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

We’re thrilled to announce that @passbolt.bsky.social has joined the PHP Foundation as a Silver sponsor!

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The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 2024 The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

The PHP Foundation's 2024 Transparency & Impact Report is out! Learn about our work to support PHP's future.

Read more: thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03...

The PHP Foundation is turning 3 🎂 We just renewed our silver sponsorship for another year! Help us maintain and improve PHP, become a sponsor today! We're tired of our 8 person company still being the fourth largest sponsor at $18,000/year, surely you can do better! 💸 #phpc #php

The PHP Foundation Turns Three! The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

The PHP Foundation is officially 3 years old! 🎉

With a team of 10 engineers, we’ve delivered big features, while improving performance, security, and infrastructure of the language.

Huge thanks to our sponsors and the PHP community. Let’s keep building!
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PHP Core Roundup #20: PHP 8.4 is Released! The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

PHP 8.4 is Now Released!

🔹 Property hooks
🔹 Asymmetric visibility
🔹 New DOM features and HTML5 support
🔹 Object API for BCMath
🔹 new MyClass()->method() without parentheses

and a whole lot more!

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Announcing the Pre-Release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language

Announcing the pre-release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) 🎉

Think of it as Composer for PHP extensions: they’re distributed via Packagist and handled similar to regular PHP packages.

Check it out and share your feedback 🐘💜

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PHP Foundation | Sovereign Tech Fund

We're investing in the long-term sustainability & security of the PHP ecosystem. Overhauling the PECL extension distribution system, code auditing, improving documentation, & server integration testing will benefit millions of sites and apps using PHP:
www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/php/