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Posted on Oct 4 • Originally published at symfonystation.mobileatom.net

Symfony Station Communiqué - Stardate: ✦ 03 October 2025 ✦: The Latest Symfony, Drupal, TYPO3, and PHP News!

#symfony #drupal #php #typo3

Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy.

There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.

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Symfony Universe
PHP
More Programming
Defending Democracy
Cybersecurity
Fediverse

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Symfony

As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.

This week, Symfony released the maintenance versions 6.4.26 and 7.3.4. Development on the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version also continued, with more features and deprecations added ahead of its release at the end of November. Finally, we announced additional talks for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.

September 22–28, 2025: A Week of Symfony #978

They also have:

SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 Unleash the Power of Symfony Messenger

SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 Let's Build A Raffler With WebSockets!

SymfonyCasts has:

This week on SymfonyCasts!

PHP

This Week

The PHP Foundation has:

The PHP Foundation application form for 2026 is now open

Call for Designs: Refresh the PHP 8.5 Release Page

php [architect] looks at:

What’s New in PHP 8.5? (Release Date + Must-Know Features)

spO0q explores:

PHP 8.5: The Pipe Operator

Amit Merchant examines:

Seven Real-World Examples of Using the Pipe Operator in PHP 8.5

Alex Kirk has a:

Proposal: an Interactive Mode for phpcbf

Dave Liddament looks at:

Introducing the Friend attribute (example 1)

Albrecht Köhnlein shows us how to:

Use ddev pull with WordPress Projects

Ash Allen Design explores:

The Dangers of Dynamic Method Calls in PHP

Peter Soktor examines:

Modern PHP on Windows 11: VS Code, Podman, and MariaDB

David Duymelinck looks at:

PHP fun: enum key collection

Igor Nosatov explores:

Saga pattern with PHP: Masterful Coordination of Distributed Transactions in Microservices

Cees-Jan Kiewiet show us how to:

Unlock Composer Plugins by Self Hosting Renovate

Zend examines:

PHP Dependency Management Using Composer

Previous Week

Norbert Tech shares:

Parquet - Introduction

More Programming

The Guardian shares:

Why I gave the world wide web away for free

The Register has:

Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers

JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets

Futurism reports:

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

Chris Loy looks at:

The AI coding trap

My Flibber Flabber says:

React is bad

In fact, React sucks.

CSS Tricks is:

Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26

F-Droid needs our help:

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

Fuck Google. This really boils my piss.

Android Authority reports:

We finally know how Android's new app verification rules will actually work

Dropdrift has coverage of Google's horseshit response:

Google: developer verification is about safety

404 Media has:

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

Details on the Ruby fiasco, which is kinda similar to the WordPress fiasco. Hopefully, the PHP Foundation can avoid a similar fuckup for our community. And fuck Shopify.

The same neo-fascists are spreading the rot to:

NixOS moderation team resigns

Linuxiac reports:

Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo

Publii announces:

Publii CMS v0.47: Introducing the Notification Center, Many Fixes and Improvements

I just starting experimenting with Publii as part of The Programmer's Fulcrum project. Digging it so far.

Dries Buyaert advocates:

Writing for longevity versus reach

This is one of the reasons you should join the Open Media Network.

Fighting for Democracy

The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery

TechDirt reports:

Disney’s Stupid, Pointless Ban Of Jimmy Kimmel Lost Them 1.7 Million Streaming Subscribers

NPR reports:

Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

TechCrunch reports:

UK government tries again to access encrypted Apple customer data: Report

The United Kuntdum is at it again.

Open Media Network says:

The #AI bubble might be nastier than the Dot.com crash

Cybersecurity and Privacy

Ben Werdmuller says:

Your private data isn't as private as you think

404 Media reports:

Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress

Whoops.

Fediverse

The Applied Social Media Lab has:

Introducing the ASML ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse

Great, great stuff.

Newsmast announces:

Building apps for social spaces

This is exactly the type of content The Programmer's Fulcrum will cover. And we need more Fediverse businesses like this.

Other Slightly Federated Social Media

The Social Web Foundation says:

The BlueSky Patent Non-Aggression Pledge is Good for The Social Web

Internet Exchange reports:

Bluesky Adopts More Flexible Model for Content Moderation

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Top comments (2)

david duymelinck • Oct 5

I think you missed one of the bigger announcements this week, Craft CMS is going to use Laravel.

We knew for a while this was going to be announced, but changing from one framework to another after many years is a bold move. That is why it still feels like a surprise when the announcement is made.

They made the break less painful by providing a Yii2 adapter and making version 5 an LTS.

I hope to see a bit of competition between Craft CMS and Statamic now they are going to be based on the same framework. Or maybe see some plugins that support both CMS solutions.